First off, some of this decline has to be from the fact that a huge part of the nation was recovering from Sandy but that should have affected Obama more in the total count.
For those that keep repeating how they stayed home b/c Romney was as bad as Obama, please tell me how many of you voted for McCain and not Romney ? You have every right to stay home, but I know dozens of people that didn’t vote for McCain and turned out for Romney. I’ve yet to meet anyone that did the opposite. If fewer voted for Romney than McCain in OH and PA there surely have to be plenty of you out there. Unless the difference came from voter destruction, that’s my take on it. I guess I’ve yet to see the partisan turnout in OH. If more R’s showed up for him and the I’s didn’t show up that could be the problem too.
I voted for McCain in 2008 and voted for Tom Hoefling in 2012.
I learned my lesson, that voting for a liberal just encourages the elitist GOP leaders to run another one. My fervent hope has been that Romney's support would be small enough for people to realize that the GOP cannot win by offering the voters a fancier liberal than the Democrats.
I suspect that they'll try it again in 2016. I hear Rove saying that the only reason Romney got beat is because Obama badmouthed him and suppressed the vote. It doesn't sound to me like Rove learned anything from this experience.
If you want them to quit running liberals, then quit voting for liberals.