Posted on 11/07/2012 11:17:25 AM PST by Arthurio
Obama Won Ohio in 2012 With Fewer Votes Than McCain Received in 2008
Ohio 2008: John McCain 2,677,820 votes (46.8%)
Ohio 2012: Barack Obama 2,672,302 (50.1%)
Source for 2008 Results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Ohio,_2008
Source for 2012 Results: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results
Romney doing worse than McCain (nationwide) was noted on some other threads, but some have cautioned that many votes still remain to be counted. But Ohio is 100% in, so we can make a very easy and stark comparison.
This has little to do with Romney being a Mormon and a lot to do with him being perceived as a liberal Republican from the bluest of blue states. Four years ago, the GOP-E shoved RINO McLame down are throats. We held our collective noses and voted for him, and when he lost, many of us said "never again" because our conservative principles mean more than whoring out our vote out for the inside-the-beltway GOP-E.
Four years later, the GOP-E not only demanded again that we support a RINO who was all but a democrat when he served as govenor of Massachussetts, but they dissed the Tea Party and conservatives in the process. I suspect that many conservatives decided to stay home rather than compromise their principles again, and that cost Romney the election.
Sarah has to actyually run for the job first
I believe that you have hit on a big reason for the low turnout. Negative advertising works - and that’s why it is done. Barry’s campaign it hard in Ohio, Virginia, and Florida beginning in the summer. The Romney campaign didn’t respond. Negative advertising works to suppress the vote of your opponent. It also affects the campaign conducting it - and you always hope by a lesser amount.
we need someone, here or through other Conservative activist venues to collect every stitch of anecdotal stories and reports and make an assessment if it sums to more than anecdotal stories, and if so use all our forumns and our best Conserative reps to press the RNC and GOP Congress leaders to make the case public
right now, I don’t know how much is anecdotal and how much can be surmised as systemic
We are still trying to figure out why there was report after report of Republican precincts having incredible turnout then in fact underperforming. I have a theory that involves the change they made a polling places by combining several precincts into one "location" (i.e., one table within a polling place, rather than three or four as we previously had.) This reduced the number of poll workers by 50% at least, and, I think, slowed down the process drastically (hence, long lines, hence the appearance of massive turnout) when in fact it was lower turnout being handled more slowly than ever.
Well the Ohio polls were off, to some extent. Many polls were showing Obama up 5 or 6 points - actual margin was 2.
Columbus Dispatch poll was most accurate.
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