10 million Americans died since 2008. So we actually did quite well. Given that more older people die than young and more older people are typically more conservative, we probably lost way more than 2 million conservatives. That means we actually picked up some new young conservatives. But not enough. You can't use algebra to solve a calculus problem. This is a rate of change problem not an amount of change.
Bush got 62 million people in 2004.
The Republican party in 2012 is smaller than in 2004, with 59 million voting for Romney this year.
Unless something else is seriously wrong - the republican party usually grows from election to election.
Reagan got 54 million people back in 1984, in the landslide election. It was not until 2004, (20 years later), that the Republicans finally passed Reagan. The result was two republican wins and two republican losses (since Reagan was such a blowout).
1988 to 1996, was three consecutive Republican drops in turnout, but that was due to Perot.
What’s the excuse now?
Not enough my a$$. If I can’t even prevent the difference between no comment and triple here by the workings of my connection. Imagine! Consider one One signal causes an error and the server or whatever, defaults to bama. Seriously. They are laughing at us.