Posted on 06/01/2013 5:31:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
White and Hispanic turnout fell from 2004 to 2012, according to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies based on newly-released U.S. Census data.
Had turnout equaled what it was in 2004, 4.7 million more whites would have voted in 2012, of which 4.2 million were not college graduates, according to the study.
Obama received five million more votes than Romney.
“As Republicans think about how they can expand their voter base, the new data suggest that one of their biggest problems in the last presidential election was that so many less-educated whites sat home,” said Steven Camarota, CIS’ director of research and author of the report. CIS favors low levels of legal immigration
“These voters, who have been hit hard by the recession, have traditionally supported Republicans,” Camarota said. “It seems likely that by supporting the Schumer-Rubio amnesty, GOP legislators would further alienate these voters.”
To win the popular vote with female support, Romney would have needed four extra percentage points of the women’s vote (48 percent rather than the 44 he actually received), with each percentage point equating to 714,000 votes.
To earn the popular vote with blacks and Hispanics, Romney would have needed an extra 15 or 23 percentage points, respectively. But the statistics regarding whites demonstrated how closely the Republican candidate came to a plurality win.
With one percentage point of the white vote equating to 980,000 votes, Romney would have won the popular vote with a mere three percent greater turnout.
Coulda Woulda Shoulda
Mr. RomneyCARE was mute because Obama was not a conservative.
Obamacare was moot because Romney was not a conservative...same difference.
Ancient history but we can count on the GOPe to try and repeat it.
The GOP has to run a real Conservative and not a POS.
Which is where the IRS suppression of the Tea Parties was critical. If not at the top of the ticket, undoubtedly for some of the close Senate races.
That is, of course, if there was such a thing.
For the record: I voted for Romney. He was the last RINO I will ever vote for. From now on, give me a Conservative or I stay home. The party has an obligation to me -- I do not have an obligation to the party.
Liberal/RINO
Shyster
Mormon
Republicans had success in 2011 when they got 5 million new Republican voters. The Democrats only found 250,000 more Democrat voters in 2011.
Republicans had nearly 100% turnout, as did the Democrats, in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
Remember, the key element in relative voting strength these days is the Baby Boomer Death Rate ~ IT'S UP BIG TIME!.
Those 90 million unregistered non voting adults have to be convinced to change their habits if you want new voters.
Shameless balderdash. Headline doesn't match content, but that won't matter to low-information types.
and say, Newt or Michelle Bachman had been the nominee, what do you think the margin would have been then?
Bottom line: GOPe cannot rally poor and working-class whites. In an era of tribal politics, whites have to have a party, and they don’t.
he probably did...look at the voter fraud.
the only way a Republican wins anything in a national election is by a landslide, due to the ‘Chicago way’ of vote counting....
The only way a republican wins in a landslide is when the candidate is a CONSERVATIVE
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As sure as the sun rises in the east....
the big-tenters, Rovistas, Kristolites, and other RINOS will bring forth another lame candidate.
Look for the GOP to move even further left, to be more “in touch”.
Even making the choice between a "moderate" and a jihadi/packer/communist was a no-brainer.
The no brain, stay-at-home "conservatives" are just as guilty as the RAT-mafia for giving us four more years of Obamanation!
We may never recover...thanks a lot!
Obama’s PACs were running all those ads trashing Romney last spring, while the Romney PACs were being suppressed by the IRS. It fixed a false image of Romney in people’s minds that could not be erased after they were allowed to set in.
I voted for the A-hole you stupid POS. You need to get a life and bother some else.
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