Posted on 11/07/2012 7:46:24 AM PST by jilliane
4. With overall voter turnout down, shockingly Romney got 2 million less votes than McCain! If Romney got as many votes as McCain, 59.6 million, he could have won.
The story of this election is voter turnout!
It didn't even sell in Massachusetts. Romney lost 61-37 there.
If the GOP doesn't learn the lesson now, they never will. Going Moderate pulled ZERO votes from the Dems, even in Romney's OWN STATE... but it did keep millions of Republicans at home yesterday all over the US. If it can't work in your candidate's back yard, where exactly do they expect it to work?
Something really weird happened after Romney grabbed the Ohio lead last night. I am sick and tired of the lying an corruption.
Obama got 10 mil more than McCain in 2008. He lost that 10 mil in 2012.
As I said, Sarah Palin, whether she's hated by the Democrats or not, should take notice of that ~ she got more votes for VP than Obama got for President this year!!!
Hate is good eh!
This stat just doesn’t seem real or even possible. I have to wonder if fraud or suppression of military votes or something similar can account for this. Is it because 2 million elderly voters died or become otherwise unable to vote? You are right that this is a huge story. I would like to find out the answer.
Well, at least it will come down while I’m still spry enough to do slightly more than my share of damage on the way to the graveyard. =^/
I just can’t wait for 2016 when the establishment GOP rolls out their next moderate candidate who’s turn it is to run.
Since Reagan, it has been one establishment GOP moderate after another. They either lose or are a disaster. How’s that “reach across the isle” crap working out for you RINOs?
Even the incumbent RINO GOP House Rep here lost. He was accused in ads of being “Tea Party” so he quickly rolled out a denial of the Tea Party and then spewed his list of liberal stances; gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, amnesty, etc. He probably lost the conservatives in the last week of the campaign.
I don’t buy this at all. it’ BS
Parties need strong new voter outreach programs going constantly. Republicans appear to have been lax.
Oregon has a total population of 3.4 million. How come 5 million voted there.
Yeah, they’ll have counties in Ohio that have 149% of the registered voters voting.
Florida is easy to explain. The answer is New Yorkers. in the last 12 years over 338,000 New Yorkers moved to Florida. As we all know when yankees move because the sh!t where they ate one too many times, they keep the same attitudes that ruined the place they moved from. SO If half of them voted, and they followed the same voting patterns of their fellow liberals still in the anus on the Hudson 62.7% of them voted for 0bama (BTW this is the statewide average not the nyc average). then 338,000x.5x.627 = 105,962 of 0bama's Florida votes were from New Yorkers.
New Yorkers are like plague carrying rats. They spread the filth and disease of liberalism wherever they go. I despise New Yorkers because of what they're doing to the USA.
It didn't even sell in Massachusetts. Romney lost 61-37 there.
If the GOP doesn't learn the lesson now, they never will. Going Moderate pulled ZERO votes from the Dems, even in Romney's OWN STATE... but it did keep millions of Republicans at home yesterday all over the US. If it can't work in your candidate's back yard, where exactly do they expect it to work?
Not true. they came out to vote.
Right. EACH AND EVERY candidate had some aspect that made him unacceptable to some segment of the Republican primary electorate. By default, we got Romney.
So the ones who wanted a perfect candidate stayed home.
You think this will make the GOP-e get behind a more conservative candidate next time? get it through your head -- the GOP-e is FINE with not having the presidency. Having the presidency would make them accountable. They don't want that. They WANT to be in the minority, so they can have all the perks of elected office, but no responsibility.
Your thinking is just plain wrong.
Expecting brand loyalty is precisely what got you here.
Try offering a product that people WANT. See how that goes.
If you advertise as a candy store, but sell nothing but toilet plungers, how could you possibly be mad at your clientele for not buying? How can you be pissed if they go looking for candy somewhere else?
That's what is wrong with trying to get folks to vote against the other guy.
You need to give them someone to vote *FOR*.
All Christian churches agree that Mormonism is not Christian, but the exit polls will reveal that Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly, massively FOR the Mormon, and that Catholics voted AGAINST the Mormon.
Very well said. Probably the capitulation-conservatives will decide that a few more insults, more browbeating and threats, and their empty suit would have won.
Romney lost Florida by 25,000 votes.
Unimaginable.
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