I concur, Rush may be misinformed. There was early talk about low vote totals, but so much early voting meant election day totals were low, but I understood another 5 million or so rolled in during the ensuing couple of weeks.
It's an important point to be settled. My final impression that the number of conservatives who withheld their vote for Romney was relatively small.
Any freepers here who can shed more light ? It seems your point of Romney with a million more votes than McCain basically answers the question, but is there something I'm overlooking ?
Two words:
Vote
Fraud
(Took the [BLEEP]s four days of 'ballot reader malfunctions' to get the tally they wanted out of Billings, so how did things go where you vote?)
You’re not factoring in normal population increase for one thing (”Is there something you’re overlooking?”)
I know a lot of conservatives who sat it out in key state of Ohio. For several reasons. One, they were not enthused by Romney. Two, the Dems suppressed the vote with several tactics including destroying Mitt on launching pad before he even got started. Three, they believed it was imposssible to beat an incumbent (forgot about Carter).
You are spot on but we need to factor in the get-out-the-vote efforts of the democrats, their use of the media to smear and lie about conservatives, re:
-War on Women
-Homophobia
-raped women don’t get pregnant
-Romney gave a woman cancer
-Romney the rich guy who doesn’t pay taxes (and no one questioning Harry Reid slanderous comments)...
-The 47% to include old folks on SS and Medicare (which it did NOT).
-Anti-Obama = racism
Throw in a little voter fraud here and there in key swing states, lie about polls to supress the opposition...
It’s the way elections are won or lost and I’m afraid we’re on the losing side without a whole lot of changes on our part.
Question: Does anybody see any changes? Anyone on our side analyzing what happened and how to win next time? Or is it same old, same old and Jeb Bush’s turn or maybe try Christie and out-RINO Romney next time?
Frankly, I don’t hold out much hope given what has happeneing and what continues to happen right before our very eyes.
A Sarah Palin insurgency may be the only thing left for us conservaitves to try, as the Republican powers-that-be don’t seem to have a clue.