“If you think Obama was elected because Republicans had some differences over immigration, you need to buy lots of clues.”
No you do! Bush,McCain split the party with the Amnesty push,Perhaps you were asleep,When we crashed the WH phones? This treachery(remember “see you at the signing”) ,allowed the Rats to gain the house in 06,Then the 08 election, How many conservatives sat that out,Refusing to vote for Traitor McCain?
There were a number of things that affected the 2008 election: 1) the media was bound and determined to elect Obama and shilled tirelessly for him; the young voted for Obama in record numbers; my son worked at at Outback restaurant and thinks he was the only one there who voted for McCain 3) McCain and his team ran one of the worst campaigns in history and 4) even though he wasn't officially running, George Bush was on the ticket with every Republican in 2008.
Look at the votes third parties received - it wasn't that high. Barr and Baldwin didn't even hit 750,000 votes combined.