Posted on 11/13/2012 9:14:41 AM PST by neverdem
Brace yourselves, conservatives. What I’m about to say will hurt, and it should hurt -- and I’m not the first to notice. (Kudos to Rush Limbaugh, who noticed and is hitting this point hard.) Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election not so much because he got fewer votes than Barack Obama but because he got fewer votes than John McCain in 2008.
Additional votes are still coming in, but, as of the time of my writing, Romney received around 57.8 million votes in 2012. In 2008, John McCain received 59.9 million. Romney got over 2 million fewer votes than McCain. And in the final count, he will almost certainly have received considerably fewer votes than McCain.
Obama received 60.6 million votes in 2012, almost 9 million less than he received in 2008. If Romney would have had McCain’s vote total, he would have been much closer in the popular vote and might have even had enough to win the Electoral College. Or, better put, if Mitt Romney had secured just a tiny fraction more votes than John McCain -- as we conservatives were certain he would -- he might have won the presidency.
We know this: Romney won independents by 5 points, and they made up 29% of all voters. McCain didn’t win independents.
What does this really mean? That’s where the hurt comes. It appears to mean that our side lost because we failed to turn out our side. It isn’t so much that the Obama-Axelrod apparatus turned out their side -- though they did -- but that our side failed to...
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Imagine: If someone had told you that Barack Obama would receive 9 million fewer votes in 2012 than 2008, you would have predicted his sure defeat. You would have been wrong. Republicans blew a huge opportunity.
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Got a life, thank you very much. I see you completely misread my post and decided to be insulting as a way of proving your point.
We are just so sick of hearing about that windbag conman, his cult people are still hitting the FR threads.
At some point you are going to have to face facts and realize that you still can’t brow beat America into voting for the Massachusetts governor.
If you want to be useful, then try and figure what a disaster the man was, and help to shut down whatever mechanism or portion of the GOP that manipulated a failed one term liberal governor who left office with 34% approval into the party’s nominee.
“At some point you are going to have to face facts and realize that you still can’t brow beat America into voting for the Massachusetts governor.”
Browbeat? I think you misunderstood...I was telling people they are morons, wondering what happened. Inability to grasp the difference between Romney and Obama is seriously. stupid.
If you want to be useful, then try and figure what a disaster the man was, and help to shut down whatever mechanism or portion of the GOP that manipulated a failed one term liberal governor who left office with 34% approval into the party’s nominee.
At some point you need to figure out what your party did wrong, rather than screaming at the customers for not recognizing how wonderful your cooking is, as they spit it out and walk out of the restaurant.
“At some point you need to figure out what your party did wrong, rather than screaming at the customers for not recognizing how wonderful your cooking is, as they spit it out and walk out of the restaurant.”
Stupidest fing analogy of the century!
LOL, shout at America louder, you haven’t made Romney palatable to them yet.
“LOL, shout at America louder, you haven’t made Romney palatable to them yet.”
Have a good laugh when he appoints another wide Latina and maybe one or two other socialists to SCOTUS. That’ll show them a thing or two about how smart you are.
I am laughing at you and your determination to not examine what went wrong in regards to 2012 and the Republican party.
It appears that you have a rigid, anti-conservative agenda to promote, regardless of how it is received by the American public, regardless of the results it has on the vote and elections.
“I am laughing at you and your determination to not examine what went wrong in regards to 2012 and the Republican party.”
what went wrong is the aholes that decided to sit on their righteous azzes and not vote, letting a socialist run the country for four more years. Nice going.
It appears that you have a rigid, anti-conservative agenda to promote, regardless of how it is received by the American public, regardless of the results it has on the vote and elections, or who wins those elections.
“It appears that you have a rigid, anti-conservative agenda to promote, regardless of how it is received by the American public, regardless of the results it has on the vote and elections, or who wins those elections.”
Yeah, right. It appears that you have a rigid neck upon which is perched an orb that is firmly planted in your anal cavity.
I got fed up with their rhetoric as much as you did, but not all of them were wrong.
Slamming the Tea Party was a huge mistake but I’m hoping that’s a battle that the Tea Party will win over the ‘moderates.’
First of all, Romney is over 59 million votes now. By the time the count is done, he will be roughly even with McCain.
Second...EVERY election we get the anecdotal stories about huge turnout! Anecdote does not equal data.
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