“I don’t see the remotest scrap of evidence that this is true.”
2008 McCain total votes: 59,948,240
2012 Romney total votes: 57,821,399 (>99% precincts reporting)
Are there via “natural attrition” or some other demographic change over the past 4 years 2.1 million fewer conservatives? Or, did many conservatives who voted for McCain switch to the Marxist? I don’t think so. For whatever reason, many people (more than 2 million!) who voted for McCain did not vote for Romney. Most confusing: Rasmussen just this week described self-identified Republicans outnumber Democrats by 6 percentage points. Poor conservative turnout has to be included in the list of many reasons for Romney’s loss.
Thanks for providing those stats! I knew I had seen them, I just was too lazy to go look for them.