You nailed it. I’m writing an article on these very numbers. We lost because most conservatives didn’t vote. They stayed home.
Doug Brady came to similar conclusions: http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/11/its-the-turnout-stupid.html
But the way I see it, this is our route for a comeback in 2014 and 2016. We have everything we need to save the USA.
Except, that is, for a conservative party to bring the voters home to America.
Can you say “Fraud”?
imo, and i’ve said this for a while, a lot of people did not want to vote for obama (except for the liberal elites and the welfare citizens).....people wanted to vote for someone else.....i really don’t think Romney gave them a good enough reason to vote for that someone else...
if Romney had been able to do from July through election day what he did from the first debate to election day there might have been a different outcome...
i also think there were a lot of stories that were never pushed by Romney (closing down Bain and flying 30 employees to NY to search for a colleagues missing daughter...paying for 7000 pints of milk for a VA hospital in MA out of his pocket) and were never broadcast nationally that would’ve helped his cause “connecting” with people....Romney could not tell the story but his surrogates could’ve gotten others to tell it...
Something is rotten.
I have friends on the ground in Ohio and Virginia who say the turnout was much greater in their towns than in 2008. It does make me wonder a lot about fraud.....
Anecdotally I talked to two conservative Catholics and that was a reason they wouldn't vote for him.
It was individual dem vote fraud, and more significantly, dem fraud by way of voting machine manipulation. This election was stolen just like in any other dictatorship-3rd world banana republic hell hole. It’s over. They know how to manipulate the voters, and the votes, and just enough so it is not blatant. They will save that for later. You know, like when the other Hussein used to get 100 percent of the Iraqi vote.
I thought i read several times or saw it McCain won the popular vote.
I would like to propose a different theory.
Perhaps the evangelical Christians decided that they could not vote for a ticket consisting of a Mormon and a Catholic.
I hope that is incorrrect but if it is true I would personally like to thank them ever so much for giving us 4 more years of unfettered tyranny because of their religious predjudices.
The low vote count was something I noticed on election night even before the election was called for Obama.
Yes, its clear that many of the Republican voters stayed home.
Proportionally, Obama lost a lot more voters than the Republican candidate from 2008 but not enough to entirely change the outcome.
It’s all very disturbing and I don’t know what to make of it.
There was a core group of Republican voters who were VERY motivated (you can see them in the early-morning election day turnout and relatively good GOP early voting result). Yet at the same time, there were clearly some who didn’t vote at all.
It’s all very depressing. The Democratic Party has long had Blacks in their pocket, but now Latinos as well, and as long as these groups continue to vote along ethnic lines it makes electing a Republican president in the future much, much harder.
I talked to a Gary Johnson voter today.....:(
Yes the vote total appears to be down, but mainly for Obama. I predict that Romney will exceed McCain's total in 2008, i.e., 59 million.
https://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results
Hundreds of thousands or millions of votes to come in soon?
Yes. It’s good to see the numbers laid out like that. It’s not as if Obama gained traction and beat out Romney. Obama lost a lot of his base. But so did Romney. They just stayed home.
The only thing I’m not sure of is who it was that decided to stay home. Values voters? Paulbots? Evangelicals? I suspect that Evangelicals were probably the largest contingent who simply refused to vote for Romney, but it would be interesting to get at least an approximate count.
In any case, Romney was a lousy candidate, and the figures prove it.
How many fewer people voted in the storm-hit areas? If there wasn’t a fall-off of more than 3 or 4 million votes cast in those states, I suspect some fraud that took away Romney votes instead of what we are most often concerned about — adding democrat votes. I’m not a conspiracist, but the way things are going in this country, and with a thug as the attorney general, I am legitimately concerned that there was some of that.
It would be interesting to research obituaries since November 2008, because according to the pundits the Republican Party only appeals to old white guys. A high mortality rate of that demographic might explain the lower Republican voting numbers in 2012. Obviously the demographics of the other party are multiplying at record numbers. It’s just simple math that says it will get more difficult each election as the profile of one party decreases and the profile of the other party increases.
The GOTV in Colorado was NOT impressive, though I DID get harrassed by 500 robo-calls. Robocalling is simply stupid. It will net you 100,000 votes nationally, max. Hardly anyone walked precincts here, and while I did not see very many Obama signs compared to 2008, McCain/PALIN DEFINITELY had more signs in 2008 than Romney in 2912.
What would the numbers have been like if Sandy wasn’t around...how many people didn’t vote because of Sandy?
BS - turnout everywhere was much higher than reported.
Anyone think that early voting and absentee ballots may have stuffed the ballot boxes for Dems and lost the Repub ballots? Or maybe Repub votes fraudently counted as Dem?
Nah, couldn’t possibly happen, could it?
/S