There will be a few more million votes added up when all mail ballots and absentees are added, but overall turnout was low.
I blame...
Vote Fraud
3rd party
Write-Ins
Takers overhwelm the makers
Ignorance overwhelms Common Sense
Corruption at ALL levels.
Money and Power overwhelm honor and decency.
I see no positive future for America.
When gas goes to 8.00 a gallon . . . I will smile.
The man only the republican establishment wanted was nominated. Conservatives supported literally everybody but him. And he lost. Could not even garner the same number of votes as the last loser they picked.
The idiots deserve everything they get. I am so depressed this morning. I can’t believe Romney got fewer votes than McCain.
Check those software voting machines.
For example, take one machine, check the final tally the machine put out. Then, and this will be the more strenuous part, go from voter to voter who voted on that particular machine. See what candidate they voted for, if they’re inclined to say.
If a machine says that only 200 voted for romney on it, and yet you have affidavits from 600 people who say they voted for romney on that particular machine, there’s a problem.
In a June UPI poll, 10% of Republicans indicated they would not vote for a Mormon.
Are those numbers final? If so, then apparently: Many Republicans who didn’t want Romney either didn’t vote for president at all, or voted third party. And many Democrats who didn’t want Obama must’ve done the same thing.
Oregon has a total of 3.4 million people. How come 5 million voted there.
I just noticed this. This cannot be. Around here in La La Liberal land, I have never seen so many yard signs for the republican in my LIFE! A lot of people crossed over to vote mitt. So who didn’t vote mitt amongst republicans? Did they just not vote?
3-4 million Republican Early Votes were discarded/destroyed. Period.
It is very simple. Many of us were hoping that the “crawl through broken glass to vote against Obama” vote would be enough. It was not.
No matter how bad an incumbent may be, to win an election against an incumbent you have to have a strong candidate that will draw voters to the polls. Romney was never that candidate.
We needed to actually change the minds of a lot of 2008 Obama voters or bring a lot of new voters to the polls. To do that, we needed more than “Obama is terrible.” We needed “Our candidate is someone you want to vote for.”
In 1994, the Republicans won a nationwide landslide in response to Clinton’s first two years in office. The Republicans took control of the House, the Senate, a majority of the governorships and a majority of the state legislatures. Basically, if you were running as a Democrat for any office in the U.S. that year you lost. If you were running as a Republican you won.
After the 1994 tidal wave, NO ONE believed that Clinton could get re-elected dog catcher in 1996. But then the Republicans nominated Bob Dole.
I liked Bob Dole. Bob Dole was a war hero. But Bob Dole had lost the Republican presidential primaries in 1980 and in 1988 and had not improved with age. He got the nomination because he had been campaigning continuously for it since 1988 and it was “his turn.”
Any of that sound familiar? 2010 was a re-play of 1994 and 2012 was a replay of 1996, with Mitt Romney playing the role of Bob Dole and Barry Obama playing the role of Bill Clinton.
The next four years are going to be disastrous. Our only hope is for the Republicans to take the Senate in 2014. At least then we can put some break on the Obamanation. But if we could not take the Senate in 2010 or 2012, then I am not at all hopeful about 2014.
I’m speechless too, how did this happen?! I have 312 random Americans on my FB profile. Only 13 of them are Obama supporters, and liberal. How’s that for an unscientific poll?
All the polls had Romney ahead, the only people I saw with any enthusiasm for Obama were media figures.
There must have been a hell of a lot of dead people voting this time around.
Maybe all the extra votes in 2008 are the fraudulent votes.
Maybe in 2012 not as many deceased people voted.
This is no longer valid, Zero has 60,039,247 according to Fox News. Still quite a near-10mil dropoff from 2008.
Putting aside the possibility of massive voter fraud, which i don’t dismiss at all, i wonder if the disparity between 08 and 12 can be attributed to Sarah Palin. The consensus here seems to have been that we lost in 08 in part, at least, because while the base loved Palin they were lukewarm about McCain — so the enthusiasm for her didn’t always translate into votes for him. But now i wonder if Palin helped McCain far more than we suspected and what we saw last night was partially the effect of not having her (or someone like her) around to stimulate the evangelical vote.
We might also be seeing that a large number of evangelicals simply aren’t interested in voting republican unless an evangelical is on the ticket.