Posted on 10/28/2014 11:42:32 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
One of the critical firewalls for the Romney campaign in 2012 was the (apparently mistaken) belief that Florida voters had turned sour on President Obama. The state’s demographics, including a surging older population seemed to seal the deal. In the RealClearPolitics final poll of polls before the election, Romney led by a small but significant 1.5%. In three of the six last polls, he led by as much as 6%, with one tied and Obama up in two polls by 1% and 2% respectively.
However, when the votes started pouring in, a different story was told. There was Karl Rove’s insistence that Romney was going to win the state, even as FoxNews called it for Obama.
The final totals came in slowly and Obama seemed to creep up in the totals as the night went on.
When all was said and done, the numbers turned out to be:
Obama: 4,237,756 50.01% Romney: 4,163,447 49.13% Obama Victory Margin: 74,309
Obama’s total margin of victory was 74,309. it was small but enough to avoid a recount, especially with the rest of the country clinching 270 electoral vote for him.
But was it a victory that was earned?
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Romney also ran pro-choice ads in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, he lost all those states.
His August interview with CBS couldn’t have helped him in the election.
CBS:
PELLEY: Well, the platform as written at this convention for the Republicans does not allow for exceptions on abortion with regard to the health of the mother or rape or incest. Is that where you are?
ROMNEY: No. My position has been clear throughout this campaign. I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have to be looked at as well...
Why can’t the RINOs see that Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America is to grant amnesty and voting rights to millions of illegal aliens who will then vote overwhelmingly for the Rats?
But perhaps they DO se it and approve because in their hearts they are Rats, too.
And the Romney forces did exactly what in order to deal with massive voter fraud? He showed the same spinelessness when he didn’t follow up in the debates on Obama’s fecklessness and incompetence. It’s almost as if he wanted to lose. Maybe he did.
Florida was rigged in all sorts of underhanded ways. Conservative counties had very few voting machines causing 4-6 hour long lines to vote while liberal area had way too many.
My concern all along....the dems. will win by cheating.
It’s never Romney’s fault.
The math in the article is wrong because it’s starting point is wrong. The number of possible illegal aliens in Florida is not the sum of how many Homeland Security thought were there PLUS how many Pew tallied in their survey, but some other number, and at a minimum maybe an average of the two, which would be 1,125,000.
That more likely starting point makes the rest of the math null and void, as an argument, because it does not lead to a big enough difference in the voting outcome.
Anyone who recalls the 2012 Allen West/Patrick Murphy fiasco can’t be surprised there are voting irregularities in Florida.
It says in the article that the Homeland numbers were legal immigrants and Pew numbers were illegal immigrants.
I’m referring to the actions of Gertrude Walker, Supervisor of Elections for St. Lucie County in Florida in 2012.
and to think these are Willard’s little buddies...
my bad; mea culpa
‘Pubbies can not do anything about vote fraud.
There is a consent degree from 1982 that prevents the ‘Pubbies from investigating or even alleging vote fraud.
And there is a 88 year old judge who comes out of retirement every year to just to extend this consent decree.
http://www.redstate.com/diary/roetenks/2012/12/03/obvious-voter-fraud-spawned-by-consent-decree/
Exactly what I was thinking...
Romney’s democrat-lite personality and policies cost Romney the whole election.
Romney’s democrat-lite personality and policies cost Romney the whole election.
If the election was really as close as all that, why did Romney’s campaign flee Florida like a gator chased him out the state? We were the biggest prize and Romney just ran away. If he thought there was even a chance he could win, why wouldn’t he stay and fight?
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