If you feel you need to have a poster “show the steps” to their results, that’s up to you, but most people posting here are quite capable of understanding the extrapolation being made.
I don’t see it as being lazy, and yes, the statement is in and of itself annoying on multiple levels, but why get combative over something so trivial?
Because the ‘statement’ is a lie.
Why is it so hard for someone to say “That’s a vote less for Romney that he could have against obama.’
It’s accurate. It does not make people look like fools. And it does not resort to the tactics of the left to mock/denigrate someone that isn’t voting lockstep with their personal choice.
Semantics? Call it whatever. But it is the truth and ‘we’ supposedly value truth...don’t we? Bottom line is I’m right.