This article says in white collar areas, turnout was good. In blue collar areas, it was way down. This article is the single BEST analysis of "what went wrong" I've seen so far and should be read in its entirety. Romney had a business career which was easily demonized, as was proven by both Ted Kennedy and Newt Gingrich. When you made your millions on companies that for whatever reason often went out of business and laid people off, that can easily be turned into political poison, and it was. This is something I warned people on here and other sites repeatedly about during the primary. It's not a crazy theory, it's something many people predicted would happen.
Okay. Maybe it’s time for another robotics revolution. I’ll bet there are lots of union jobs we could automate.