Yep, overall turnout was down. I’m afraid many of the folks we heard here went out (or didn’t go out) and brought down Romney.
I believe Jim Robinson stated he voted straight GOP in the end. So I’ll just express my personal opinion that those who took their hatred of Romney all the way to the election, I have nothing but contempt for them.
However, it’s a free country they were free to do it and I have to confess, I think Romney ran a good campaign but perhaps a better and more conservative candidate would have brought out a stronger GOP vote.
So is there a lesson in this for all of us? Oh, I think we are all going to be getting our lessons soon enough.
One more confession. I ALWAYS vote for the republican, and NEVER vote for the more liberal democrat. That only seems to make sense to me however:
I wouldn’t piss on Chris Christie if he was on fire, he will never get my vote again and I hope to see his defeat almost as much as I wanted to see Obama’s. May he rot in political hell, let the democrats reelect him. They won’t. They have their own scumbags to run.
The dirty little secret is how many evangelicals sat home because they wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney simply because he was a mormon. In Virginia for instance, Evangelical voters decreased from 28% to 21% since 2008. I know some of them. I don't understand the line of thinking myself, but to them Mormonism is a cult and voting for a Mormon really was as bad as voting for a Marxist Atheist (Obama). Like I said I don't get it personally....