[kabar]

Romney received 1 million more votes than McCain and Obama received 3.5 million fewer votes than in 2008. Still Obama won by 5 million votes.

Romney won independents 50% to 45%. Romney won the white women vote 56% to 42%. He won white men 62% to 35%. Romney won the married vote (all races) 56% to 42%.

[tanknetter]

Yes, exactly.

Romney went into election day thinking he was going to win. For Obama it was more of a nailbiter.

Many, many pollsters and pundits, on both sides, believed Romney was going to win.

The reason Obama won was because he used datamining techniques (see the PJ Media article on Catalist) to prevent his numbers from sinking past the point where Romney’s gain in voters would surpass them. That and Romney’s GOTV system (Orca - there’s a good Breitbart article on that) failed on election day.

[NKP_Vet]

“Romney received 1 million more votes than McCain”.

Not white conservative votes. It was down.