Posted on 07/19/2013 12:40:45 AM PDT by neverdem
RealClearPolitics election analyst Sean Trende has come under coordinated red-hot rhetorical fire from the Left for his thesis that one of the major causes of Mitt Romneys loss in 2012 was that a disproportionate number of white voters mostly downscale whites outside the South stayed home. Much of the criticism of Trendes thesis is based on deliberately misreading his policy prescriptions but its also based on a simpler failure to grasp the basic math behind his calculations. Like any exercise in reading exit polls and census data, Trendes assumptions (which he lays out explicitly) can be critiqued by people who are serious about understanding the issue; there are no definitive answers in this area other than final vote counts. But the vehemence directed at Trendes number-crunching suggests a Democratic establishment that fears honest debate intruding in its narrative of an inevitable, permanent Democratic majority built on a permanently racially polarized electorate...
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we do not need more Romneys or Rick Scotts
It would be a huge disruption. The proof is how progressives scream like the stuck pigs they are whenever voter ID laws are seriously proposed.
okay
I remember watching the various FR threads on election day. As I recall, many, many FReepers reported that there seemed to be heavy, even record turnout at their polling locations. Indeed, this was my experience as well - when I went to my tiny rural polling place and asked the poll workers about the turnout, the numbers they relayed to me were several times what I have come to expect as "normal" out here.
So, my question is this: did a certain segment of voters simply stay home, or were their votes somehow negated?
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