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There is no legitimate citation, I was being sarcastic about the truism that allegedly absent Republican voters were the reason Obama was elected.

Pardon me for not putting this common truism in quotes and giving attribution, and perhaps even expanding the numbers through hyperbole, and not putting up a /s or other sarcasm tag.

In reality, while Romney garnered an estimated 800,000 fewer votes than McCain (likely Palin) had received, Obama got almost 7 million fewer votes than he had in 2008. They were just located where the electoral votes were. Source: here. I hope no one had accepted that number as correct, and thank you for challenging it.

I am sick and tired of people blaming "absent Republicans" (people who did not vote for Romney out of conscience, moral or other convictions--or because they knew he would carry their state anyway and get the electoral votes, regardless) for electing Obama again (circular firing squad) when in all likelihood, the critical votes were simply not counted--votes which could have made enough difference to elect Romney instead of Obama, while 'extra' votes for Obama were racked up in strategic precincts.

It is not my personal contention that any Republican voters sat anything out and caused Obama to win, but that the election was likely stolen through the use of various fraudulent means in critical precincts in critical states.

I get where you were going now, it's just that the tongue-in-cheek didn't translate well for me initially. Sorry I missed that.

I'm curious though, you stated "In reality, while Romney garnered an estimated 800,000 fewer votes than McCain (likely Palin) had received, Obama got almost 7 million fewer votes than he had in 2008."

I think Romney got about 985K more votes than McCain did.

Obama was -3,582,720 votes in 2012 vs. 2008 and turnout was about 3.4% down.

At least that's what the FEC thinks anyhow. Roper doesn't cite where they get their numbers for popular vote, do you know where they got them? Their numbers agree with what I'm curious about, the FEC doesn't. Maybe I'm looking at outdated FEC info.

WRT the rest of it, I couldn't agree more. I keep wondering whatever happens to all the absentee ballots, the military vote and on and on.

“...the election was likely stolen through the use of various fraudulent means in critical precincts in critical states.”
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Death, taxes and what you said.