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 ...
I say a real conservative opponent would have beaten Obama like a drum in ‘12. Why? . . . because the state media keep repeating the lie that a conservative cannot win.
Since the Republican Party decided to commit suicide by consenting to this unbelievably stupid consent decree, they have lost their franchise and should be replaced with a viable opposition party to the Democrat Communists.
Each county conducts its own election. If the “conservative” counties had very few voting machines, the conservatives running those counties did a very poor job conducting the election.
The GOP should just revoke their consent
Well, any discussion of why Romney lost has to include his support of left-wing policies like Abortion and Gay Adoption, Gays in the Military, Socialized Medicine, Amnesty, etc.
No kidding. Worst RINO ringer ever.
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
Does anyone here actually believe comrade obama’s estimated population of trespassing foreign nationals hiding in this country is not grossly understated?
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