Posted on 11/07/2012 8:40:52 AM PST by TigerClaws
This was within reach. Obama had ten million fewer votes than 2008. Despite huge rallies and intensity, Rs didn't show up.
Was it... 1. Insufficient ground game? Hundreds of millions on tv instead of laser beam ground game on our base?
2. Too moderate. Romney didn't motivate the conservatives.
3. The Mormon thing. Evangelicals stayed home.
4. The gender gap. Romney didn't close it.
Despite the MSM spin, this was a winnable election and we lost the chess match.
Thoughts?
thanks for that data bite on Ohio
when all the data is in, we need to look closer at the numbers for each individual third party in Ohio, and from that surmise MAYBE how much of that we could have attracted with the right candidate
You’re right the tipping point has been reached. Romney was a decent candidate but there are just too many people dependent on government now. on a bright note we picked up a few governorships and they have to balance their budgets so there is glimmer of hope.
Exactly why the republican’s lost the women vote.
Ignore me then, it isn’t going to get any better.
turnout lower on both sides...not sure why
almost 129 million in 2008
around 117 million this time
Dem down 9 million
GOP down almost 3 million
hard to figure from that that it was simply GOP turnout down
enthusiasm gap for Romney almost 3 fold increase than that for Obama
but not enough
White vote up 4 points from 55-59
but latino and Oriental votes up as well...offsetting
it’s a new America
and it won’t last
“Dumbed down Americans. Years of communists teaching in our schools, Hollywood productions, and the MSM. Too large to ever defeat.”
I am _extremely_ sorry that I have no choice but to agree with you.
Replying to the wrong person?
Did I mention birth control? You mad and just lashing out?
Ronald Reagan expended considerable effort to bring the Religious Right and other Social Conservatives into the GOP. Since then, the GOP has done its best to minimize their effect without quite driving them from the party.
Ultimately, all those Moderate voters that were promised from the move to the center failed to materialize - as usual.
Sorry...I did reply to the wrong Freeper.
That I agree on - but still, Obama lost 13-14% of this 08 total and still won? And the polling places were swamped from day one? The awful GOPe aside, something is rotten.
They needed a power hitter or two down the stretch, they got a couple lean guys in slacks and nike running shooes.. frankly, no killer instinct at the end,, everyday should have been about ‘what happened in Benghazi, Mr. Pres__ent?’ day. Instead, kissing babies and hugging survivors.. and a chub of a gub paved the way.. that and flat indifference to Rinos by the few the proud the ‘Masada’ conservatives. :-}
“BTW, Rick Sanctum won big in El Paso county during the primary”
O.K., granted, but the operative term there is “during the primary” and to see how that fits into last night you need Dim registration and Dim voter turn out in El Paso county on their own. If they are a majority and a voting majority in El Paso county, that county may have done no better for Santorum than it did for Romney - in the general election.
Do I know that? No. Just sayin we need all the El Paso county data to know that answer.
I agree with you, massive fraud.
But I saw ZERO reports of low turn out this time around. Instead, I deposited my absentee ballot (don't know why they keep sending them to me) as part of the largest crowd I've ever seen and my perception was seconded by an absolutely giddy veteran poll worker.
Now I'm told that 15 million voters stayed home?!
No one needs tinfoil; those aren't voices in your head, I'm araid that they are legitimate and objective observations.
It's like pro basketball. If that was your only source of information for population statistics in the USA you'd imagine that the average person was a 7' tall black man.
Raising your sights to check out the far more numerous audience at an NBA Game you'd realize, instead that the average person was 5' tall, overweight, and needs to get out in the sun everynow and then.
12 million of them stayed home and 75% of them were Democrats!
People’s intentions are only known to the Lord (often, people’s intentions are barely known even to themselves). Having said that,
people can be presumed to have intended the obvious or foreseeable consequences of their actions, or inactions.
That millions of Republican voters did not bother to cast a ballot (again!) could mean that they (consciously or not) WANT America to continue to be subverted, undermined, and eventually destroyed by BHusseinO and his “death to America” Islamicist and communistic comrades. They are, after all, well along already with their “God-d*mn Anerika!” agenda....
Think: Freud’s “Death Wish” or drive...
We are, my friends, in bigger trouble than we may have imagined....
“Women truly do have a intuition ... they have a gut sense when something isn’t right.”
“Romney was setting this off....So was Obama, but Obama was a known commodity.”
Haha! Where’s their intuition on Obama?
can you tell me please where/what is the source for your red/blue map?? thanks
I am still trying to process Megyn Kelly and BAirs almost “giddy” attitude when Zero WON!!!!!!!...
No hint of sadness there.. and O’Really quite happy as well..
WOndor WHOM at the post offices is in charge of trashing millions of absentee ballots..
WHo would know.?... there is no way of checking..
There are no poll watchers at the post office..
My evidence was not just anecdotal. The official estimate from all supervisors of elections was 138 million. That was late in the game. The total will end up at maybe 122 million or so.
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