- Nearly 50% of the nation pays no taxes
- A large percentage of our population are on welfare and food stamps
The above two groups (though they overlap) will never, ever vote for a Republican because they will either make them pay taxes or take their goodies away.
Then we have a subset of people who are so emotionally invested in Obama and so buy into the phony "hope and change" meme that they will vote for Obama no matter what.
Our saving grace is that many of those on welfare and collecting food stamps will not get to the polls. So long as their basic needs are provided for, they will be content to sit on their couches and watch TV because having to put on shoes and get out to a voting booth is really too much of a hassle for them. While they will tell you they are big Obama supporters, they really couldn't be bothered to act on it because they are by nature lazy, work-shy and slothful.
Still, Obama is going to get his 40-45% of the vote no matter what.
The upside is that 45-48% is probably the upper limit of the vote total he will get on November 6 and he will thus be turned out of office. However, probably not the landslide we are wishing for due to the factors above.
Many here state that it is our misfortune to have Romney as the candidate and that some other, more conservative candidate, would win by a larger margin. I just don't see that. While I wish we had a more conservative candidate, remember that Obama is going to get 40-45% no matter what. A more conservative candidate will almost certainly drive some of those independents to Obama's camp and make this an even closer race.
That said, I’d rather have a real conservative beat Obama 51-49% in an EV squeaker than to have Romney win in a blowout.
“The upside is that 45-48% is probably the upper limit of the vote total he will get on November 6 and he will thus be turned out of office. However, probably not the landslide we are wishing for due to the factors above.”
Yours is a post of logic and reason — as distinguished from the other wishful thinkers posting in this thread.
And you’re dead-on with those numbers above. America is now “a divided nation”. On one side are those who contribute and produce; on the other side are those who do little more than “consume the benefits”, or who can’t or won’t produce enough to “cover their costs” to the nation and to the economy.
And the problem is that the “entitlee class” is slowly, but ever-growing.
This election will not serve to “bring the nation together”, but instead will exacerbate the divisions within. It will leave a most bitter aftertaste, which will be but a harbinger of more rancor to come in the future.
I remain cautiously optimistic that Romney can win, this time. But there will be no “honeymoon” for him or for his fledgling administration. It will be a struggle from the get-go, and the fixes the Republicans are able to fashion together to keep the nation going may work (at least for a while), but in return will earn the further enmity of the non-working classes.