Arthur Wildfire! March on another thread: “Were Christians divided over the Mormon faith? “
Well some conservatives must have sat out. Many since Romney did much better among indies (right?).
Whether it was because of his liberalism or religion I don’t know.
If it’s his religion that pisses me off. That’s would be retarded. Please let it be his boring establishment liberalism or something.
Hurricanes and he’s a Mormon. Really? Can this really be the reason? New Jersey and New York, Obama did better than in 2008 in terms of percentage.
Anyone who voted for Obama cause there was a hurricane and Christie kissed his foot is too dumb to live.
Anyone who stayed home rather than vote for a Mormon when they would vote for a “Christian” RINO like McCain is as well.
My public school teracher sister said last week, “Sandy is helping Obama.” She was right. Women saw that sh*t and lapped it up.
Christie is a traitor, period. May he lose reelection in an embarrassing manner.
I don't think his religion had anything to do with it. There are some idiots on FR who will "only elect Christians" (wonder if they were upset when Norm Coleman beat Walter Mondale, or Eric Cantor beat his commie RAT opponent this year), but nationally I think they were only an extreme fringe. One of the reasons why is that Romney won huge in the bible belt, even in states that were re-electing their local RAT officials, like in West Virgina. If "evangelicals had stayed home", Romney would have still won the deep south, but not by 20 point margins.
>> However, there was a group that probably did stay home and they were the Paulites. I know a bunch of them and many of them proudly pronouced that they didn’t cast their votes, so I suspect that a larger proportion of them, relative to their size, did stay home. <<
Ditto. They were gloating about it on facebook last night ("Hey GOP, THIS is what happens when you insult the great DR PAUL") and posting the photo of the old coot on every thread when he had nothing to do with the election and wasn't even running or making statements about it. I know one Paulbot who kept interrupting a post I made about my U.S. Senate race endorsements with the words "GO RON PAUL". When I asked her what the heck "Ron Paul" had to do with the Senate races, she just kept screaming his name over and over again. I really don't harbor any ill will towards Paul (Who stayed quiet during the general election election), but his obnoxious supporters get on my nerves so much I want to punch them. I can't stand political cults. You'd think they'd shut up after the primary is over and their god is no longer running, but they won't give up trying to convert everyone else to their dogma. Even mainstream conservatives like the Andrejewski worshipers in Illinois are stuck in that mentality and can't shut up about how everything revolves around Adam and what a heroic LEADER he is.
>> No, I don’t think Republicans stayed home as about 55% of eligible voters did cast their votes. Most elections rarely exceed 40% of the eligible voters casting their votes. Lack of anyone actually liking Romney was a problem. Hey I didn’t want him to be nominated. Too bad no one worth a damn ran. If you don’t think Newt or Perry would have been killed even worse tonight I don’t know what to say. And those liars are barley more conservative than Romney. <<
From what I saw, there was no enthusiasm from any camp except black Obama supporters (who not only showed up in big numbers but kept disrupting both polling places I worked at by wearing tons of Obama campaign materials into the polling place and loudly telling everyone to vote for him). The usual union thugs and suburban RAT poll watchers didn't even show up this time to hand people campaign literature near the polling place and place their signs too close to the doors like in 2010 and 2008. We had freezing rain in Chicago and turnout trickled to crawl by the late afternoon. It was the quietest Presidential election I've seen in 12 years (and I didn't watch polling places closely in '96 so I can't compare it to that one). Felt more like a midterm primary election than a november Presidential election. I think most conservatives who normally vote in elections voted for Romney, but the fact nobody liked Romney was a problem. Even the GOP establishment types who backed him the primary didn't particularly like him, they just promoted him because they said he was the only one who could "win"
Sad crop of Presidential candidates this year. If we had run Newt or Perry, I think Obama might have even done better than 2008, especially in RAT states like New York and California, and we'd have even bigger loses for House and Senate. Puke. A sad day for America.
I agree it would be sick if anti-Morman Christians let McCain get more votes than Romney. But it’s just as sick to assume that Obama is less liberal than Romney.