The people who wouldn’t vote for McCain or Obama on principles were not the type to stay home. They would have voted third party or written in a name. They are the people who would have gone to the polls to vote for local candidates and ballot issues. There were less than 2 million third party votes in the entire country. I get tired of seeing people use empty arguments like this to make a personal attack.
I've already had FReepers tell me that they did not vote for McCain on the basis that he was not qualified per the Constitution, in the same manner that Obama is not qualified.
Now, the figures that were given are the votes for Obama, not the number of voters that showed up at the polls. And no matter whether these "crazies" here on Free Republic (who did not vote for McCain, and thus gave Obama the election) -- did go to the polls, they did not vote for the GOP Presidential candidate and that's bad enough in and of itself.
We got Obama as a result of that one...