Tidal wave? Baloney - Obama had a significant drop off in votes. 2008 was a tidal wave. The problem is exactly as this article states. The issue is who stayed home or who voted third party. I’d like to know what demographics stayed home and why and I would also like to see how much of Romney’s votes were eaten up by third party candidates.
Conservative, Christian, male, high income/wealth/education, veteran, rural. I believe in small government, limited by constitutional restraints as our founders intended. I stayed home. Why? The slow boat to serfdom/socialism/collectivism is worse in many ways than the fast train. At least on the fast train things will fall apart quickly, and we can start over and repeat the cycle. Reagan was far from perfect (gun control/background checks, illegal amnesty, government growth, increase in federal power), Bush’s were horrible slide leftward, McCain was my limit. No more. I refuse to vote for anyone who loves big government and compromises with the socialists... Compromising my entire life has just led to a country I no longer recognize, and haven’t for years...
I voted third party, but Romney wasn’t going to have my vote, so I don’t consider it a vote eaten up. His job was to earn my vote, and he failed. My right to vote is far too precious to be automatically given to a certain political party out of fear, it must be earned.
You can’t put a liberal in to fix a problem caused by liberalism. If someone is going to have to be held accountable for the next four years, I’d rather he be a proud liberal than a so-called conservative.