The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo – for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility... The final results indicate that Romney exceeded McCain’s total by less than one million votes, while Obama received almost four million votes fewer than he did in 2008 – the first time in history that a president won a second term with fewer votes than he scored in his first victory.
That's another key reason why the reported vote totals are consistent with fraud and cheating of an unprecedented degree. It seems extremely hard to fathom how the total two-party vote would be less that that in 2008, when one factors in the ever-increasing population and media coverage of the major candidates, the polarizing presence of Obama (which intuitively figured to increase, rather than decrease, total voter turnout) and the lack of any particularly popular and well-known third party candidate.
The fraud and cheating this time around likely incorporated new techniques to supplement the more traditional ones, such as hacking into electronic vote counting systems including touch screen and optical scanning devices, most particularly in the large urban areas in swing states where historically reliable polls had given Romney a slight advantage immediately prior to Election Day. It's likely that these hacked programs took away many votes from Romney as well as adding to Obama's totals. It's hard to fathom that in just about all these states, like falling dominoes, Obama won be margins large enough to be called one after another only minutes after the polls closed in those states on Election Day.
Another sign very suggestive of an election not on the level: the reported "shellshocked" feeling of experienced Romney operatives on election night, when reported results in favor of Zero differed quite widely from their internal pollsters' estimates.
Unless this issue of fraud and cheating is addressed by meaningful changes in states' election procedures, every other political issue will be rendered practically moot, because the 'Rat candidate's victory will be guaranteed nationally and everywhere where these shenanigans are permitted, regardless of the real vote of eligible voters.
Incidentally, the fraud and cheating was also instrumental in the defeat of Congressman Allen West in Florida, and very likely in several other senatorial and House races, especially in the swing states.