Precisely what we feared when Romney was the nominee, they stayed home in droves.
I’m sorry....our candidate could have been Mickey Mouse, and any GOP voter who would not have shown up to vote for him over Obama either does not care about the country or needs to have their head examined.
Romney lost Florida by 25,000 votes.
Unimaginable.
Liberal Republican vs Liberal Democrat = Democrat winning. Everytime.
We peaked. Face it, we are becoming the minority.
there are a lot more votes to be counted, so need to wait until all of those are counted, but yeah, GOP turnout was down. I believe the evangelicals stayed home by about 7% according to something I heard, probably due to mormonism.
“What happened to the GOP turnout?”
I guess that “Massachusetts Moderate” thing didn’t sell.
Free shit trumps Liberty every time.
I got so sick of hearing people jump on us, we were never the probelm, we voted for the creep, but the rest of the country that doesn't live and die politics were sickened by him. Rove and his co-horts need to be run out of town on a rail and we all need to stop watching FOXNews.
As per a June 21st UPI poll, ten percent of Republicans indicated they would not vote for a Mormon. Romney only lost by 1% of the vote. Do the math.
So who stayed home?
Let's look at this rationally. The Democrats went down 10 mil. They do that again, the Republican need only achieve what McCain achieved and they have a landslide on their hands!
I'd suggest Sarah Palin might turn cartwheels.
Sadly, it looks like a lot of Republicans are now sitting home with Obama as their prez for the next four years, but at least their “spotless” voting record is intact. Better to sit home than vote for a less-than-perfect candidate doncha know. They sure showed us. They taught us a lesson, didn’t they. Yeah, well get ready, they’re going to be taught a lesson as well.
All day long, I heard (and saw personally once) about the massive turnout in Ohio’s suburbs.
It doesn’t make sense.
I wonder if my vote was even counted?
That’s what happens when you have 2 candidates that lots of people do not want to be president.
State - McCain '08 - Obama '12
NH - 317k - 355K
WI - 1,262K - 1,600K
FL - 4,046K - 4,129K
PA - 2,656K - 2,894K
Yes, some he may have picked up: IA, Ohio probably others.
This is not a complete list, but illistrates the point. No way Romney can win, if he does not take Florida.
BTW: Ohio is 2,674K vs. 2,672K, that is a .07% difference.
Long time experienced political operators, common joe voters, all claiming that that the turnout was the biggest they had ever seen and yet the numbers were down.
WERE THEY ALL JUST IMAGINING THAT?
Something just does not smell right!!!
Not quite, there are still millions of uncounted votes (mail ballots) in CA, WA and OR, also provisionals in other states.
At the end, it will be Obama 62.5 mil, Romney 59.5 mil or close to that. Still, this is under McCain’s 60 million votes, or W’s 62 mil in 2004.
Demographically (starting with W’s numbers), there were 66-67 million GOP votes available for Romney. He did not get the base to the polls, and he should be judged as the weakest GOP candidate in recent memory (weaker than McCain, who actually performed admirably in hopeless conditions).
Sorry to say this, but Republicans who did not show up to vote have to shoulder some of the blame of Obama getting re-elected.
Sitting around like bullheaded fools with a “I’ll show them” attitude and not voting for Romney. As a result, due to less turnout, their non vote was a default vote for obama. Sorry, but it really does come down to the math. Which is why they do the counts.
Just as with them not showing up for McCain, the only point they proved is they were too foolish to have even the slightest bit of foresight and see how bad obama hurts this nation.
Sorry, but I love my country too much. Romney was the only option to protect my nation from obama in the general election.
Also, all the tea party guys we got into the House in 2010. They have not been the conservatives they claimed to be (mainly by sticking Tea Party on a sign and having folks follow them like blind sheep). But they are still better than the alternative. So not voting for someone who may not be a tea party person, when the other option is obama, shows an inability to see the big picture.
People can flame me all they want, but last night proves me right. At some point people need to use some common sense.
My wife and I were both unhappy (to put it mildly) with Romney. We finally voted for Romney after listening to Obama and his minions. I suspect others didn’t and just stayed home. The political fabric is irreparably torn and the progressives hold both parties. In the short term, there is no hope.
Hate of Obama prompted us to vote for Romney.