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Romney did not lose because of the liberal MSM!

He lost because thousands of Republicans across the country stayed home on voting day.

If he would have gotten the votes Sarah Palin got for MeCain, he would be in office today.

“If he would have gotten the votes Sarah Palin got for MeCain, he would be in office today.”

I don’t think so. I do agree with you that many conservatives (esp. evangelicals) didn’t go to the polls (the evangelicals mainly because of Romney being a Mormon, not because of his lack of conservatism) because Romney was conservative enough, but the narrative that Romney would have won if he got the same voters as McCain did are just plain wrong. Here’s the proof:

McCain got 59,948,000 votes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

Obama, in 2012, got 65,915,000 votes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

That’s a 6 million vote difference - and I don’t think that 6 million conservatives and evangelicals stayed home. FYI, Romney actually got MORE votes than McCain, by almost exactly 1 million (60,933,500 - see the 2012 link above).

Just a note - I did vote for Romney, but it was more of an “against Obama” vote. I’m not a big Romney fan at all, and I thought him to be the wrong candidate because of a multitude of factors (guns and his own healthcare fiasco chief among them). But facts are facts.