[icwhatudo]

"Well, it was by a plurality of about 10,000,000 votes and almost (not quite though) 200 Electoral College votes.

It turns out that Obama got the largest plurality of popular votes of any recent President (either Clinton or Bush) and also got a “majority” (for the first time in a while) of the voting public."

So, even if some did sit at home (and I’m sure some did), it did not make up that kind of difference...

Actually a change of just 300,000 votes (out of 125 million+) in a few battleground states would have resulted in an Obama loss.

[Star Traveler]

You said — “Actually a change of just 300,000 votes (out of 125 million+) in a few battleground states would have resulted in an Obama loss.”

Well, all I gotta say about that is that it’s a shame that the Republican ticket couldn’t have figured that out as easily as you did...

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I’m in a state where every last single county in the state was for the Republican ticket and the two major metropolitan areas of the state were totally for the Republican ticket.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Actually a change of just 300,000 votes (out of 125 million+) in a few battleground states would have resulted in an Obama loss.

That is a misleading statement. The 300,000 votes would have to be distributed exactly in the right places to have that result, and the odds of that happening is extremely low, virtually impossible.