But that’s not the argument that was made. And I am sick to death of seeing an absolute lie being repeated as fact. Are conservatives now so lazy that they have lost the ability to make their arguments without resorting to liberal tactics? I hope not. If we are then we are as much the problem. And THAT is a fact.
Semantics.
You know exactly what the meaning is without nitpicking over the details, and you know exactly what happens if, say, 10% of the voters choose a libertarian over Romney.
Yes, the statement you dislike is a contraction of the specific result, but the result is still the same.