[Strategerist]

You do understand the difference between talking points and numbers, don’t you?

There’s reality, and there’s what you want to believe. What you want to believe doesn’t match reality.

There are quite a few states that actually are done or almost done counting.

Go here for state-by-state totals for 2008:

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2008/federalelections2008.pdf

And for 2012, some results:

Georgia:

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/42277/112424/en/summary.html

Kentucky:

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/43107/112742/en/summary.html

South Carolina:

http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/42513/112871/en/summary.html

So no calculations, no spreadsheet - actual numbers you can look at yourself.

You’ll notice Romney has more votes than McCain in all three states posted (and these are only 3 of the 32 states where that is true ALREADY, even with all the votes not being counted.)

How is it possible that Romney got more votes than McCain in Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, yet millions of white base voters “stayed home?”

[gusopol3]

That has never been the thrust of my argument. I have said that the way Obama governed drove people away, I have focused on his losses more than Romney’s. But if you really want to talk about “people that stayed home” on the Republican side, where are the 62 m that voted for Bush 8 years ago? Or the additional 12 m who turned out for him in ‘04 compared to ‘00? Romney really should have made a gain on that order over McCain’s ‘08 total.

[iopscusa]

Romney got the Southern White Voters by default, the DWL/Yankee Voters sucked upto Obama. Romney ignored the working class White Voters and lost PA/WI/OH/MI and VA.