McCain got more votes than Romney did despite spending hundreds of millions less.
I still can’t wrap my head around that other than my guess that Ron Paul and Palin voters voted for McCain while they stayed home in 2012.
This could be. Although the polls showed it close, you had Barone, Will and Morris talking blowout. I'm sure it kept some home.
I think sadly we also have to factor in the anti-mormon factor. Remember the poll that said 10 percent would not vote for one.
Write a vanity post and write down everything that happened, all you remember. I agree with the other poster that urged you to do so.
I am furious and I don’t know what to do, I really don’t.
We have all the major players against us even though we are in the majority.
Romney got about 30% more votes than the tally shows, judging by the House voting counts.
This is where the election went. The machines were programmed to dump Romney and West votes.
Don’t confuse Paul goof balls with Palin supporters, and Romney nor Obama were hurt by the Paul cult.
Paul people are from all over the spectrum not the GOP, that is how Paul can be so many different things at different times, even to running for president in different parties, and how he can keep raking in money although everyone knew that the lifetime politician would never escape his safe congressional district, he could never win a statewide Senate seat (even in Texas), or a Governor’s office like Palin, or be a vice-presidential candidate in a real party.
It is good that he is finally retiring, after a lifetime of this hustling and fund raising, and living the lifestyle.
>> “I still can’t wrap my head around that other than my guess that Ron Paul and Palin voters voted for McCain while they stayed home in 2012.” <<
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Your slip is showing.
That comment is as good as a confession that you were not a Palin supporter. That’s ok, but don’t cast your own weakness on Palin’s supporters. I’m confident that at least 99% of Palin and Paul’s supporters pulled the lever for Romney for similar reasons: they both were aghast at the loss of personal freedom and power under Obama.