> “As my liberal colleague had predicted, the Obama electorate returned to save the president from the heartbreak of a single term.”
Wrong!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/07/2012-Turnout-Dramatically-Lower-Than-2008
“In 2012, Obama defeated Romney by a 50% to 48% margin. Obama received 59.8 million votes, and Romney received 57.1 million votes — 2.7 million fewer than Obama in 2012, but also 2.8 million fewer than McCain in 2008.”
What sunk the GOP bid for the presidency in 2012 was the stay at home Perot bloc (6 million blue collared conservative whites).
.. was the inability to convince more voters that liberal Romney was worth getting to the polls for.
Romney got more votes than McCain, and Obama received fewer votes than in 2008, but he still beat Romney by 5m votes. 2008’s victory margin was 9.5m votes. Romney lost the mid-western union vote because of his anti-automaker* bailout stance, his remarks about firing people and the general sense that he was an out-of-touch plutocrat. If Romney had $3m instead of $300m, he might have had a chance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008
* In the 80’s, Reagan responded to the impending failure of the automakers by imposing trade barriers. This was the winner of 44 states in the 1980 election. Romney, a charmless nobody in politics, wanted to flush domestic automakers down the drain. It’s kind of amusing how Romney, a repeated failure in electoral politics, repeatedly alienated important voting blocs, while Reagan went out of his way to bring them on board.
Otherwise known as ‘conservatives’.
Run a conservative next time.