Who elected Obama?

Many Republicans seem ready to agree to Obama's demands for tax increases -- after all, elections have consequences, and he won, right?

Maybe, but before agreeing to anything, the GOP should probably look a little more carefully at just who elected Obama.

Dr. Robert Vanderbei, a professor of Operations Research at Princeton, developed the visualization shown above by combining Democrat blue with GOP red according to popular vote proportions taken at the county level and printing the result as a 3D map in which apparent vertical height is a stand-in for the number of voters counted.

Nationally, Obama won the popular vote by 4,452,910 -- but because 4,516,701 of those came from California and New York, Romney and the GOP can reasonably argue that he won the rest of the country by just about 64,000 votes.

Across the country, Obama won by large margins in a relatively small number of counties -- and, within those counties, by overwhelming majorities in some, but usually not all, precincts. More than 40% of Obama's California margin came, for example, from about 90% of the precincts in Los Angeles County alone.

This effect is clearer in states like Ohio, where Obama's 150,891 overall vote margin came mainly from the 256,581-vote surplus he amassed in just 900 Cuyahoga county precincts. Similarly, he counted 588,781 votes to beat Romney by nearly five to one in Philadelphia County, but he won Pennsylvania by a net of only 309,115 votes.

What's going on is that big numbers from a relative handful of precincts can swing statewide totals to democratic presidential and senatorial candidates despite widespread popular support for GOP policies in congressional and other district races.

Those who vote early and often.

On Election Day a couple of people (D by what I could discern about their behavior) at my polling place were joking about "vote early and vote often."

Early voting and counting that early vote gave the election thieves the number of votes that they had to manufacture out of whole cloth to steal the election.

Exactly. There was nothing remotely fair about it.

Those who vote early and often.

On Election Day a couple of people (D by what I could discern about their behavior) at my polling place were joking about "vote early and vote often."

Early voting and counting that early vote gave the election thieves the number of votes that they had to manufacture out of whole cloth to steal the election.

Exactly. There was nothing remotely fair about it.

Hoosiermama: I recalled that you had posted (see below) about this before. Is your SoS looking into how they received machines different from what was ordered?

I keyworded this article with the word “votingmachines” and was shocked to see FR threads on voting-machine problems going back to 2002-— a decade.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/votingmachines/index

I don’t know if this election was stolen or not, but I do know the DNC functions much like a crime syndicate. Among all their other enterprises, they are perfecting voter fraud across multiple fronts to lessen the chances of prosecution, and there seems to be a lack of will by the RNC to do anything about it, other than push the voter ID law.

This doesn’t bode well for future elections. Our country is broken.
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Hoosiermama reports:

Went to poll training yesterday for the election. We have new voting machines. They are NOT the same machines originally ordered. Seems that IN S o S notified our county clerk that the initial machines had problems.

Were not being OKed for use in Indiana.....The ditched machines are the same company/machines messing up in Ohio....voting for O when R was designated. Clerk said information was available on the internet regarding the machines and company. Many other states ditched the company according to the Clerk.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954018/reply?c=31
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when we went for poll training the local clerk explained that the new voting machines were not the ones originally ordered. The Indiana SoS had notified them that those machines had NOT be certified for use by the state. When the information came out about the Ohio machines casting incorrect votes she researched on line. Sure enough the same company/machines were involved.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954130/posts?page=15#15

ALL:

See also posts 36 & 37 by RedMDer, and
patriot8’s extensive list in post 15 (Thank you!)

Voting machines are just automated theft.

No one can verify the software, results can be changed in so many ways, what dem union thug could resist.

GOPe stands by with their head in the wrong end, no recovery will be possible through election process, crash and burn may lead people to wake up, but it didn’t in 29, they jumped on the FRD commie band wagon and worshiped him.

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