Ohio’s turnout stood at nearly 5.6 million voters late Wednesday, about 67 percent.
The number accounts for full Election Day counts from all 88 counties, except Franklin, where 99.88 percent of precincts had reported. It also does not include about 60,000 uncounted absentee ballots and about 154,000 uncounted provisional ballots statewide.
Roughly 5.7 million registered voters – or 72 percent – voted in the 2004 election that clinched President Bush’s re-election.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner had predicted 80 percent turnout for this year’s election.
Ohio’s record was 77 percent in the 1992 election, when about 5 million voted in the election that gave Bill Clinton the presidency.
there was a suggestion on Ohio’s major radio station, wlw700, this morning that conservatives stayed home.
Interesting.
Maybe the conservatives thought that the Obamites cheated so much that there was no way their votes would count, so why bother.
When the Democrats win, all claims of “irregularities” go out the window. Al Franken lost, therefore he litigates.
Black Panthers maybe??
“Despite intense interest in a historic election”
EVERY election is historic. EVERY ONE OF THEM determines the future of this nation.
So, if OH and other swing states were only won by small margins, our task in winning back the voting populace is very ‘do-able.’ The media will paint this as a giant victory and move to the left, when it is more of just a normal swing of the pendulum. Now the opposition party is in charge, and has to take the blame for everything.
Voters stayed home? Maybe, but not likely due to dissatisfaction with McCain choice.
Voters stayed home because their concerns over voter fraud were pushed aside by Brunner. Brunner’s actions disenfranchised thousands of voters.
Believe me even I thought about not bothering to vote given the situation of not being able to cross check new registrations or the fact Brunner had instructed the counties to give regular ballots to mismatched registrations at the polls.
Why vote when cheating is rampant and people aren't even required to show ID?
The MSM harping on how the election was lost to McCain for the the 4 days before Nov. 4 significantly depressed the national conservative vote as well...I'm sure of it.
About 200K Ohio voters have records discrepancies
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner estimated that an initial review found that about 200,000 newly registered voters reported information that did not match motor-vehicle or Social Security records, Brunner spokesman Kevin Kidder said. Some discrepancies could be as simple as a misspelling, while others could be more significant.Emphasis mine
Ms. Brunner did her job of delivering Ohio to Obama. Her master will be pleased. She is now privileged to lick his boots.
Something screwy happened.
Michigan usually only goes democrat with about 10 heavily populated counties voting democrat. This year it was closer to 40 counties. We also tend to go conservative with ballot initiatives but approved stem cell research and medical marijuana this time out. Our fairly reliably conservative 7th district also went democrat with the most conservative county being the one to vote democrat.
It was a combination of fraud and conservatives staying home.
If they did, they are idiots. But I rather suspect that voter fraud had a lot more to do with Obama's taking Ohio than conservatives staying home.
Conservatives didn’t have anything to vote for. It’s never easy to get people to come out and vote against anything and conservatives are naturally optimistic people who need something positive to vote for.
McCain wasn’t all that different than Obama. Cap and trade? problems with excessive profits? Greedy Wall Street profits? Reign in corporate CEO pay? No drilling in a barren wasteland?
If you can find one conservative economic principle in McCain’s original ideas, that’ll be the first.
People preferred him to Hillary but he ran against Obama and that was the problem.
Thoughts?
My question is - did they stay home? Or were their votes not counted? It’s already been shown that Ohio was one of their targets for massive voter fraud. Is it possible that their votes were not even counted?
Yes - and here's why.
Conservatives turned out, but some crossed over or just didn't vote for McCain. And, he has only himself to blame; his campaign was disorganized and lacked the efficiency and passion of the Bush 2004 effort.
I still thought McCain would win, and I know LS can tell you that they were thrilled with the heavy turnout in the GOP precincts of bellwether counties, until they started counting the votes. :) Then they saw McCain's chances evaporate with a large crossover vote.
More likely the tens of thousands of bogus and multiple time Acorn registrants either did not show up or only voted once.
About 50% of the voters I saw were black. A lot of people probably early voted or absentee voted. If we are going to go after vote fraud, we need to concentrate on absentees and early voting.
At this point its pretty obvious conservatives sat out this election. Not all of course, but enough... We didn’t GOTV.