[C. Edmund Wright]

That I agree on - but still, Obama lost 13-14% of this 08 total and still won? And the polling places were swamped from day one? The awful GOPe aside, something is rotten.

[muawiyah]

We only know that SOME polling places were swamped ~ not ALL polling places. This is the first General election after redistricting also, which means there were precinct consolidations, etc.

It's like pro basketball. If that was your only source of information for population statistics in the USA you'd imagine that the average person was a 7' tall black man.

Raising your sights to check out the far more numerous audience at an NBA Game you'd realize, instead that the average person was 5' tall, overweight, and needs to get out in the sun everynow and then.

[Wuli]

I’m repeating myself in this thread.

we need the state voter turn out data to look at the total turnout question accurately

in some very blue states, like New York and New Jersey, low Dim turnout was not likely by itself to cost Obama the state