In 2012 the Dems got 60 mil and the reps got 57 mil. (current totals shown on Drudgereport.com front page at this time)
The question really was about how much variation is there from election to election. The answer is there's major differences between presidential and congressional mid term elections ~ tens of millions of difference, and as great as 45 million in a recent decade.
this time obama had a 9 million vote fall off. he barely got as many votes this time as mccain got last time!
I find that remarkable.
It's possible vote fraud could account for some of that, but how do you account for the Democrat losing 9 million votes?
“It’s possible vote fraud could account for some of that, but how do you account for the Democrat losing 9 million votes? “
we need state-by-state data, because the truth is in some very blue states, like New York & New Jersey (the storm) there can be a heck-of-lot of missing Dim votes and Obama still win the state, even if more GOP do show up; and in the end such lost Dim voters do not change the electoral college outcome
one challenge the GOP never seems to even try to tackle in some states, is that there can sometimes be people who are eligible but not registered to vote and of a percantage than is 100 or 200 percent greater than the % GOP POTUS candidates lose by (like New Jersey, when GW lost NJ to Kerry)