[VRWCmember]

Barack Hussein Obama won in 2012 because four million Republicans stayed home. Give them a reason to come out to vote FOR somebody, and they shall return.

Who are these 4 million republicans who stayed home? And if they stayed home, how did Romney get so many more votes than McCain did?

[TomGuy]

2012

	Presidential Candidate	Vice Presidential Candidate	Political Party	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote
	Barack H. Obama	Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	Democratic	65,918,507	51.01%	332	61.7%
	Willard Mitt Romney	Paul Ryan	Republican	60,934,407	47.15%	206	38.3%

2008

	Presidential Candidate	Vice Presidential Candidate	Political Party	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote
	Barack H. Obama	Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	Democratic	69,499,428	52.86%	365	67.8%
	John S. McCain, III	Sarah H. Palin	Republican	59,950,323	45.60%	173	32.2%

 

Source:  http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/

 

[Bringbackthedraft]

how did Romney get so many more votes than McCain did? .......................McCain got very few, most of his votes were for Palin.