GOP turnout: myths and reality

Hotair ^ | 11/23/2012 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

In the immediate aftermath of the election, Republicans slammed Mitt Romney for not being able to match the popular vote totals of John McCain, but many forgot that the full totals in the popular vote take a few weeks to finalize. This past week, Romney's totals surpassed McCain's in an election that had a smaller overall turnout, Kimberly Strassel reports for the Wall Street Journal --- and Romney did significantly better in swing states than the GOP did in 2008 as well (via Scott Johnson at Power Line):

Mr. Romney beat Mr. McCain's numbers in every single battleground, save Ohio. In some cases, his improvement was significant. In Virginia, 65,000 more votes than in 2008. In Florida, 117,000 more votes. In Colorado, 52,000. In Wisconsin, 146,000. Moreover, in key states like Florida, North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia, Mr. Romney turned out even more voters than George W. Bush did in his successful re-election in 2004.

By contrast, Mr. Obama’s turnout was down from 2008 in nearly every battleground. He lost 54,000 votes in Virginia, 46,000 votes in Florida, 50,000 votes in Colorado, 63,000 votes in Wisconsin. Ditto Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio. The only state where Mr. Obama increased his votes (by 36,000) was North Carolina, and he was still beaten by a Romney campaign that raised its own turnout by a whopping 147,000.

The notion of an enthusiasm gap among Republicans compared to 2008 is therefore a myth, one suggested by incomplete data the day after the election. So what happened? Did Romney just run out of time, or was Obama’s downturn just short of bad enough to lose? Not exactly, Strassel argues. The demographic data shows that Democrats boosted voter turnout where it counted, and where Republicans didn’t bother to seriously compete:

Because what ought to scare the GOP is this: Even with higher GOP turnout in key states, even with Mr. Obama shedding voters, Democrats still won. Mr. Obama accomplished this by tapping new minority voters in numbers that beat even Mr. Romney’s better turnout.

In Florida, 238,000 more Hispanics voted than in 2008, and Mr. Obama got 60% of Hispanic voters. His total margin of victory in Florida was 78,000 votes, so that demographic alone won it for him. Or consider Ohio, where Mr. Romney won independents by 10 points. The lead mattered little, though, given that black turnout increased by 178,000 votes, and the president won 96% of the black vote. Mr. Obama’s margin of victory there was 103,000. …

Republicans right now are fretting about Mr. Romney’s failures and the party’s immigration platform—that’s fair enough. But equally important has been the party’s mind-boggling failure to institute a competitive Hispanic ground game. The GOP doesn’t campaign in those communities, doesn’t register voters there, doesn’t knock on doors. So while pre-election polling showed that Hispanics were worried about Obama policies, in the end the only campaign that these voters heard from—by email, at their door, on the phone—was the president’s.

In order to win national elections, Republicans have to compete in all communities. That doesn’t mean pandering, but it does mean putting free-market, small-government philosophies and slogans into concrete policy proposals that will improve the lives of voters. It’s not enough to talk about empowering investors to take risk in the American economy; we need to talk about how we can encourage that investment to go into urban centers to revitalize neighborhoods and create jobs. We need to commit to school choice and educational reform, in combination with a shift in control away from federal mandates (and the costly administration they require) to the local school boards and parents. We have to have specific policy proposals on the table and the commitment to follow through on them.

Until we remember what Jack Kemp figured out two decades ago, we will never compete for those votes, and end up with a massive handicap in national elections.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Stolen birth certificate, Stolen social security numbers, STOLEN election.

[nascarnation]

WTF are our Republican governors and Sec of State?

Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Penn, etc....

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Thanks for setting the record straight. Romney DID do better than John McCain, and GOP enthusiasm was definitely there. No doubt.

But we need to do more analysis on the MASSIVE CHEATING AND VOTER FRAUD which occurred especially in OH, PA,VA, FL, and CO where it is now well documented.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Romney could have received 70% of the popular vote and still would have lost. The DemocRATS are now the vote counters. “Those who vote decide nothing. THOSE WHO COUNT THE VOTES...”

[dirtboy]

The lead mattered little, though, given that black turnout increased by 178,000 votes, and the president won 96% of the black vote. Mr. Obama’s margin of victory there was 103,000.

From 2011 census figured, I estimate there are 1.1 million blacks of voting age in Ohio - and the Obama campaign was able to drive roughly ten percent of the total black voters to the polls that did not vote in 2008. So we are supposed to believe that there were so many black voters that stayed home in 2008 when previously given the chance to vote for a black president?

This reeks of voter fraud.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GlockThe Vote]

Or they all got obamaphones and were sent text messages or reminded to vote by said obamaphone?

[Poincare]

Sadly we will probably never know the magnitude of Black disaffection with Bathhouse Barry and his support of gay marriage etc. The Dem party operatives voted in place of the Black population.

[patriot08]

We can not wait for 2014 and 2016 to regroup and figure out new strategies. By then it will be too late. The Marxist/Muslim usurper will have completed his planned distruction of America.

That’s what people fail to understand.

Col Allen West; “I don’t want to see America become like Zimbabwe where people don’t trust their electoral process. If we cannot trust the integrity of the voting system then we are no longer a free republic.

Col West has opened the door.
It’s now up to We The People.

SILENCE IS CONSENT

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Polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election.

Mitt Romney knew he had won, too, when he got off that plane unannounced and there were thousands in a parking garage across the way cheering him, and he put his hand over his heart and said,’That is how you know you’ve won’.

The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office.

Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party.

Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.

So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns?

Massive voter fraud.

There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans, as many term the fraud- but CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.

http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.

The evidence is overwhelming!

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/11/video-eyewitness-of-somali-muslim-voter-fraud-in-ohio-by-obama-camp.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-aVy_s76ZY

https://www.facebook.com/lori.patriot/posts/404694619604138

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-stole-the-election/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

feature=player_detailpage&v=LbOtYQceBxI-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rMpQKqZhM

http://obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/

http://newtgingrich360.com/profiles/blogs/obama-stole-the-election

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/election-fraud-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts

http://appalachianforums.com/forums/Dickenson_County,_Virginia.pl/md/read/id/255145

http://beforeitsnews.com/election-2012/2012/11/stolen-election-evidence-is-mounting-everything-points-to-stolen-votes-2446928.html

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/adding-up-the-evidence-to-a-stolen-election/

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/allen-west-mitt-romney-and-the-massive-voter-fraud-machine/

http://www.truethevote.org/news/how-widespread-is-voter-fraud-2012-facts-figures

http://foxnewsinsider.com/tag/voter-fraud/

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/01/voter-fraud-is-no-myth-its-more-common-than-you-think/

http://thewillcountynews.com/?p=415

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4279497/obama-stole-election/

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/

http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/11/obama_likely_won_reelection_through_election_fraud/page/full/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/11/333-000-Votes-in-4-Swing-States-Would-Have-Given-Romney-the-Presidency

Accuracy In Media

The Left’s national voter fraud strategy exposed:

http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-lefts-national-vote-fraud-strategy-exposed/

Thousands of military votes uncounted or missing:

http://www.examiner.com/article/cast-aside-thousands-of-votes-from-our-military-troops-uncounted-or-missing

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/17/vote-fraud-alert-one-out-of-five-registered-ohio-voters-is-bogus/#.UJsjsmjNq5x.twitter

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/complaint-filed-over-illegal-alien-voters/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chicago-source-tells-author-brad-thor-obama-campaign-planning-to-proclaim-early-victory-to-demoralize-romney-supporters/

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/05/brit-hume-on-presidential-polling-theres-something-wrong-here/#ixzz2BSER1mKj

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/obamas-army-of-illegal-election-workers/

http://mvpproject.org/in-the-news/va-military-absentee-ballots-going-awol-in-2012/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/03/Dozens-of-Romney-Voters-In-Colorado-Complain-Machines-Changed-Votes-To-Obama

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/03/breaking_naacp_takes_over_polling_station_advocates_for_president_obama_at_houston_polling_location

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/more-electronic-voting-machines-changing-romney-votes-to-obama-we-looked-into-it-and-heres-what-a-vendor-told-us/

http://www.marionstar.com/article/20121031/NEWS03/310310009/Problem-found-board-elections?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57550603/citing-high-number-of-rural-black-voters-maine-gop-chair-suspects-improprieties-at-the-polls/

http://www.naturalnews.com/037952_vote_fraud_Philadelphia_elections.html

Demonstration- voter machine hacked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FPuLNjvAc&feature=youtu.be

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/allen-west-mitt-romney-and-the-massive-voter-fraud-machine/#ixzz2CJk9QHHE

http://www.barackofraudo.com/

Go to http://www.facebookcensorship.com and see the documentation of their censorship and harassment.

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What you can do:

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Visit these sites:

The Competent Conservative: Here’s What You Can Do:

http://thecompetentconservative.com/elections-have-not-yet-been-certified-heres-what-you-can-do/

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WND: How Obama Can Be Stopped In The Electoral College:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/how-obama-can-be-stopped-in-electoral-college/

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http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

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Most of ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ activity is moving to FaceBook.
‘Obama Voter Fraud Volunteers
http://www.facebook.com/#!/ObamaVoterFraudVolunteers

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‘Obama Voter Fraud’ on FaceBook-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=488176621204089&set=a.488176614537423.110863.488173144537770&type=1&theater";;;-

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Sign the petition- over 99,000 and counting -cards, email
http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

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Another petition, The ‘We The People’
(petition has 60,000 signatures and counting)https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recount-election/ZQmy0Mlv#thank-you=p

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[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Thanks for this. Will use these resources. Action must be taken!

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.-—Edmund Burke.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Thanks for this. Will use these resources. Action must be taken!

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.-—Edmund Burke.

[Graybeard58]

Does it really matter about who got what between McCain and Romney? They were both garbage nominees.

[Cowman]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/

[C210N]

The only part of the electorate that Romney couldn’t make any headway whatsoever was the Stupid Vote (exit polls indicate he got 0.0000% of the stupid vote).

[patriot08]

Thank you.

[OKRA2012]

The Democrats did just not get their people to the polls in high numbers, but in doing so they intentionally created situations where there would be long lines at swing state polling stations which made the process too unpleasant and time comsummg for those who may have voted for Romney.

Do not believe for a second that the long lines to vote were unintentional and do not believe that they are not forms of voter intimidation and a mechanism to suppress the Romney vote.

[ansel12]

When people find solace in the similarity of the numbers of 2012 to 2008, then we are really in trouble, and the Romney/rino voices are truly the loudest still.

2008 was an election impossible to win.

2012 was an election impossible to lose.

Yet the Romney/rino crowd are comparing them as though Romney was not a disaster of historic proportions.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Excellent summary. Democrats don't become CHEATS, CHEATS become Democrats. I know 0bama stole this election. Romney wins in all non-Swing States but 0bama takes Swing States? HUH? Romney made stronger showings in all the swing states than 0bama did. Only on election day did that change.

Did anyone really expect 0bama to leave office? Not me. Did anyone really think Axelrod would shave his mustache? Hell no. He knew 0bama was going to win, because Axelrod was the fraud orchestrator with the Unions, the black panthers, ACORN and the 'U.N. poll monitors'.

The MOST disgusting evil facing America before, during and after the election is THE MAJOR MEDIA. There could be a MILLION SCREAMS OF VOTER FRAUD, and.. Would they cover it? HELL NO!!! So, if the media doesn't cover it, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, and that's where we are right now. Completely ignorant of how bad the fraud was because the media won't tell us so as to protect their evil Satan.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Now, if we could put to bed the myth of the stolen election, that pops up every time a serious person tries to seriously discuss how to win elections, even on this thread.