Posted on 11/12/2012 5:38:48 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
A score of people this past week have asked me about the three million Republicans allegedly "missing" at the polls this year. For starters, if the Washington Post is to be believed, Mitt Romney received 1.3 million fewer votes than John McCain did in 2008, not 3 million. For the record, Obama received 7.5 million fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008.
More than 1.1 million of the Republican votes were "lost" in California. It is not that California Republicans turned against Romney. His percentage of the vote was higher than McCain's in 2008. It is just they know their votes were in vain in that increasingly absurd state. The same is likely true in New York State where Romney fell more than a half-million votes short of McCain's totals. Excluding these two states, Romney received 300,000 more votes than McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Jack Cashill should stick to writing about things he understands.
That's true, what's even WORSE in this state is that now the Democrats hold VETO PROOF majorities in both the State House and State Senate! Can you say GOVERNOR MADIGAN? I don't know about you, but that scares the SH*T out of me. Madigan can do whatever he wants, doesn't need Quinn to sign anything anymore. We are so screwed in this state!
"... the results in several states do raise eyebrows, most notably Ohio and Pennsylvania. Romney received nearly 100,000 fewer votes than McCain in the former and 35,000 fewer votes in the latter. In all the other battleground states, Romney improved both on McCain's raw numbers and his percentage of the vote."
This does seem suspicious. Especially given the fact that Republican voters in PA and OH were well aware of Obama's war on coal, etc.
BS. The people who stayed home were narrissic losers. Now they've poisoned the entire country.
“but I haven’t talked to any of my friends who voted for Newt who didn’t vote for Mitt”.Same for Santorum. The missing vote myth is just that. Even if some ‘evangelicals’ stayed home the states they were in went ‘R’ anyway. What bugs me is ‘conservative’ pundits(Bennett, Kristol, etc.) falling for and parroting this assertion.
I thought PA was in play; rally attendance,number of signs, coal interest, black unemployment....
Dems just hauled their sheep to the polls and told them how to vote.(Another name for ‘a better ground game’).
See and learn from my tagline.
Sometimes people around here can say amazingly stupid things.
There is a concept in ILL-ANNOY that I don't think settles in on most people - but I hope I am wrong and people are catching on. The corruption has been institutionally incorporated so that the wrongdoing is made law, thus is "OK". How was it that a teacher's union rep allegedly becomes a certified teacher, allegedly works a little bit as a substitute teacher, and allegedly collects a full teachers' pension as if they were a career teacher? How is it that Richie Daley some how "worked" in the state legislature for a few months and gets a bigger state pension? How is it that some teachers get phony end-of-career, huge pay increases so that the value of their pension is artificially inflated? We pass smelly laws, some of which may not comport with the ILL-ANNOY Constitution, passed with the blessing of the House Speaker (Papa Madigan) and then never challenged by the Atty General (Baby Girl Madigan). Many Republicans just LOVE Lisa and faun all over her. Other Republicans in this state (more specifically Crook County) use the law offices of Papa Madigan to fight property taxes (cute relationship there, huh?). I think it is all part of a family-run RICO gang that uses the state as an ATM machine. We then all pay a hefty corruption tax. Wake up! Throw a monkey wrench into The Combine! Illinois is so BLUE it is cyanotic! The Reds are outweighed by the Blues both in population and influence.
I look forward to the destruction of California.
Be prepared to hear all about lots of “voters staying home”...the Bipartisan Oligarchy would rather we all stew in that mess..than having us all bothered, and deciding to investigate, about all the voters voting who never voted...
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
The very LAST thing the Bipartisan Oligarchy want or need is any semblance of Constitutional Federal Gov’mt or a clean vote.
Both those are up to We the People to cram it down their throats so hard in DC they will, someday, never do otherwise.
Absent a clean vote.....We the People are being taxed without representation..Ask George III how well that worked out!
The vote totals cited in this American Thinker article are still not final either. Probably Romney will end with about the same total votes as McCain nationally and outperforming McCain by a few percent excluding CA and NY. However this idea has taken hold that McCain got 3 million more votes than Romney and keeps getting repeated.
How do they know that the missing Republicans are still residents of CA?
BS. Bush won in Florida and was winning the whole time. The bogus call by Dan Rather and the other Big Three drive-by media networks cost Bush thousands of votes in western Florida. If not for that bogus call before the polls were closed in western Florida, the margin of victory for Bush in Florida would have been large enough that there never would have been a recount. As it was, algore STILL lost every single recount.
The voting machines changed their Romney vote to one for Obama? Maybe that is where they went.
I suspect part of the myth is the idea that many stayed home and pouted instead of fulfilling their patriotic duty.
If those idiot Republicans HAD turned out in California, they probably wouldn’t have a demonRat supermajority in the statehouse, and prop 30 probably would have failed...
If they stayed home, they’re not conservatives, ‘least not in any self respecting, posess gray matter way.
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