Most people hate to admit they were wrong. Thus, it’s hard to unseat incumbents. You have to convince a lot of people to admit (at least to themslves) that they made a mistake.
I think a lot of this “our get out the vote campaign wasn’t good” analysis is off base.
Karl Rove does the math in his recent column: Obama got 91% of this 2008 totals, Romney got 98% of McCains. Who had the superior GOTV campaign?
Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.
It’s just that Obama’s 2008 victory was so large that he had millions of votes to lose and still end up in the winners circle at the end of the contest.
RE: Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.
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2008 Presidential Election
Popular vote Obama: 69,456,897 McCain: 59,934,814
2012 Presidential Election (Still Counting but it’s almost over )
Popular Vote: Obama: 62,820,778 Romney: 59,274,599
See the above Popular vote numbers for Romney? In what sense is it an “improvement” over McCain?
“Most people hate to admit they were wrong. Thus, it’s hard to unseat incumbents. You have to convince a lot of people to admit (at least to themslves) that they made a mistake.
I think a lot of this “our get out the vote campaign wasn’t good” analysis is off base.
Karl Rove does the math in his recent column: Obama got 91% of this 2008 totals, Romney got 98% of McCains. Who had the superior GOTV campaign?
Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.
It’s just that Obama’s 2008 victory was so large that he had millions of votes to lose and still end up in the winners circle at the end of the contest.”
This is exactly right. It is simple numbers and demographics. Romney ran a good race and was far superior to McCain. Obama lost millions of white voters, but held on and even increased his support among Latinos, Blacks, Single Women, and Youth.
ORCA had nothing to do with the loss. Everyone who wanted to unseat Obama went out and voted to unseat Obama. There weren’t hundreds of thousands of Republican voters in each swing state just waiting on a ride from a GOP volunteer. It’s nonsense.
We have majority rule now by people happy with handouts, racial identity politics, and being sugar daddied by Big Gov.
Romney was so unpalatable that he couldn’t even beat Carter 2, he was the disaster that conservatives had said he would be since he was telling us that William Weld was his political soul master and that he did not support Reagan.
Who thought that a Massachusetts governor booted out of office with 34% approval and rejected for reelection, was the goof ball to make the GOP presidential candidate.