We need an analysis by congressional district with final, certifiable votes.
If this difference was fraud, that is one explanation.
If the difference is truly republicans not showing up to vote for President, who knows whether single posts by influential freepers pointing out the impurities of Romney, saying it well with enthusiasm how they’d never darken their thumbs for such a guy, actually gave us Obama. One confident post could have influenced 100 quiet voters over a week. And that is one of thousands of posts...
We need to call those purist voters “in a vacuum voters” because life is not like that. You don’t let your daughter get raped but only fight if she might get murdered. Freepers should use the Hippocratic oath with their voting. FIRST, DO NO HARM.
I think it was over when the Republicans refused to let Ron Paul speak at the convention and adopted the new rules which were said to hamper grassroots campaigns.
That really ticked off a lot of folks that I know.
Honestly, for the last couple of weeks of the campaign Romney was running around the country giving the same speech over and over.......people were getting all excited over these speeches to large crowds. It was like he thought he’d already won. Obama was doing more or less the same, but for the storm boost he evidently got.
If he’d have made it a real scrap, fast and furious, Libya etc, he’d have won this election. He was scared like McCain, he didn’t think the base or the public face of his campaign and its supporters would have his back if he dared to go there.
He had droves of motivated anti Obama supporters and plenty of resources but he squandered it tragically.
On election night I was as shocked as plenty of others, I thought he’d run a brilliant campaign, I thought he had a top rate GOTV plan.......in reality, they ran a terrible campaign but for the first debate and it’s only in retrospect that this becomes apparent.
People deluded themselves that he landed blows in the second and third debate, in reality he played it safe and was on a downward slope. That fat idiot Christie didn’t help matters either for the record, neither did unpopular big mouths like Rove and Dick Morris. Honestly, them two are equally as repugnant to your average voter as any on the left.
In spite of all of that, as a candidate, I’d still say he was better than McCain, but he was poorly advised and the campaign was poorly organized.