[justiceseeker93]

What it looks like is McCain and Romney both failed to get normal growth ~ and instead not only lost normal growth, they lost some of the core Republican voters.

I really can't comment on national popular vote totals unless you can guarantee me that they were real and reasonably accurate. I have a hunch that due to various types of fraud, including fraud in the counting of votes by electronic devices, Romney's reported national popular vote may have really been higher than officially reported. One can hack into a vote counting device to cause an undercount for the candidate whom you want to lose, just as easy as you can cause an overcount for the candidate whom you want to win. Also possibly contributing to a falsely low reported vote total are instances when absentee ballots for Republican candidates are arbitrarily discarded by compromised election board workers or instances when local election boards failed to get ballots out to absentee voters in a timely fashion. There were reports of such instances of the latter type which effectively disenfanchised military personnel abroad.

IIRC, the total popular vote reported for all presidential candidates was less in 2012 than in 2008, without any apparent logical reason for such a dropoff.

[justiceseeker93]

Correction to my post # 84:

Romney's real national popular vote may have been been higher than officially reported.

[justiceseeker93]

Correction to my post # 84:

Romney's real national popular vote may have been higher than officially reported.

[muawiyah]

There is a reason for a lower vote total ~ in the aggregate ~ (1) both candidates were inferior so many people just didn't bother voting, and (2) the largest single cohort in our population, the Baby Boomers, are moved into their 66th year and the FAR HIGHER DEATH RATES that come with getting old!

That's no excuse for Republicans and Democrats mounting campaigns to register new voters ~ AMONG THE YOUNG. That didn't happen because the Democrats fear the young hate them for having left them unemployed for the last 6 years (since the 2006 takeover of the House) and the Republicans think the young are simply lazy because 20 million people can't get jobs.

[Elsie]

IIRC, the total popular vote reported for all presidential candidates was less in 2012 than in 2008, without any apparent logical reason for such a dropoff.

It's apparent to ME!

People will NOT waste much of their time engaging in an endevour that they think will not benefit themselves in some way.