[kabar]

“This is the most important election of our lifetime.” That was the ubiquitous rally cry of Republican leaders. The country yawned. About 11 million fewer Americans voted for the two major-party candidates in 2012 — 119 million, down from 130 million in 2008. In fact, even though our population has steadily increased in the last eight years (adding 16 million to the 2004 estimate of 293 million Americans), about 2 million fewer Americans pulled the lever for Obama and Romney than for George W. Bush and John Kerry. That is staggering.

It is also wrong. Millions of votes have yet to be counted. It took until Thanksgiving to get the total vote count in 2008. For example, only 71% of CA's votes have been reported until now. There are millions of votes to be added to the current total from CA alone. The national total is now over 120 million.

[Ken H]

Who do you guys think you are, introducing FACTS into the discussion??? /s

McCain's popular vote total the day after the 2008 election was reported as 55.8M.* He ended up getting an additional 4.2M votes. By my very rough estimate, Romney has over 3M uncounted votes**. He's going to end up well ahead of McCain and very close to Bush's 62M in 2004.

*http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/election.president/

**http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main