Jay Cost calculates the loss in white voters may be as high as 10 million. Turnout was WAY down for Obama across the board (he got fewer votes the GWB in 2004), but unfortunately the decline in turnout was even greater among whites. That, ultimately, is what made the difference. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-barack-obama-and-triumph-identity-politics_662010.html?utm_source=Morning%20Jay%20Alert%20w%20Ad%20words%20-%2011/08/2012&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TWS%20Alerts
During the primaries a lot of people said "my candidate, or I won't vote". I guess they kept their word, - they showed us! Unfortunately, the Country will suffer for at least four years, and possibly forty, depending on Hussein puts on the SCOTUS. Then again, I have serious doubts if the Country will last that long.
But they showed us! /s
In 2008, my brother, a union nurse, was taking care of our dying father at home. I had found my brother had denied my father access to conservative talk radio - my dad’s last passion for living. Dad passed away before the election. I wonder how many of our ailing and oldest boomer generation have been kept away from the media and the 2012 voting booth by their younger generations?
I never once saw any dems worried about this election even with the polls showing candidates so close..and in some congressional races there were wide gaps..but dems won..how?
It was all in those "early voters"--Romney won. We were cheated. Proving it is hopeless.
Did 7 million voters stay home or were some of their votes discarded?
Not a mystery.
Romney was a vile RINO who got elected by flip-flopping on his position and lying about not only himslef, but the honest conservatives he ran against.
Many people saw through the white washed tomb of Romney’s exterior into the rotted core of corruption and death that is his soul.
If the 7-10 million number is correct, we still need to ask where were these voters staying home? In Texas? Oklahoma? Or did they stay home in Wisconsin, Ohio, and FL? The election was only really contested in 7-8 states, so a decline in voting in the other 40+ states would not be consequential.
While doing some errands just now heard on the radio Neil Boortz mentioned that Akin and Mourdock while not only losing their Senate races, turned off a huge enough number of women that they voted for O.
I don’t know if there’s any truth to it- but it’s a possibility. I know as a conservative woman they infuriated ME, so I can imagine they certainly made some moderate women mad too.
now we will have an all left supreme court.
the big essential in this is that within the missing “white” voters, the numbers of “missing” between the two parties was greatly more on the Dims side “white” included), and not so much for Dim “blacks”
could some of those stay-out-home “whites” who voted Obama last time (buyers remorse) had been brought to not staying home and instead accepting the GOP candidate?
more detailed political analysis of the stay-at-homes, “white” and otherwise, trying to discern WHY they stayed home and what could have brought them out, will be needed
in general, a possibility is that they had buyers remorse vis-a-vis Obama but did not hear an effective alternate choice from Romney
maybe another example of Mister Nice Guy loses again?
7 million EVANGELICALS stayed home after lying to pollsters.
Read at this link and learn what happened on Election Day.
No doubt they were so ashamed of themselves for being white that they couldn’t go out of the house. In other words, they were edumacated in the public schools.
Likely these were very conservative whites but with little imagination.
That said, how does anyone know these were specifically white voters? It's not like boards of election or secretaries of state track voters by race.
I really, really hate to say this (I really do) but I know a lot of evangelicals and the Mormon thing kept them from voting or they voted Johnson or Goode.
Don’t blame me. I gave them heck. I told them not voting for the Mormon who shared our ideals would give us the Muslim who despised them. But my guess is many of the missing voters “could not” pull the lever for a mormon.