[Alberta's Child]

You're focusing on the wrong thing here, dude. My research indicates that Barack Obama got about 3 million fewer votes in 2012 (59 million) than George Bush got in 2004 (62 million).

Barack Obama didn't win because the Democrats turned out more voters. He won because Romney didn't have nearly the support he needed to win. I can almost guarantee you that nobody who voted for Bush in 2004 voted for Obama in 2012. But a lot of them simply stayed home.

I think Romney -- even admittedly a liberal -- would have been a very effective president because he's an effective executive. He was not, however, a candidate who generated a lot of enthusiasm.

[delapaz]

Bingo on the staying home.

This is the trueness.

Romney was a NE moderate to liberal Republican from an upper crust elite.

So he had trouble in working class white OH?

You don’t say?!

So he failed with working class whites, and he failed with true conservatives who saw Romney for the snake he was.

Next time, in 2016 when we tell the GOP-E that they nominate a conservative or we’re out, maybe they’ll believe us.

But I fear too many Freepers gave in, sold out and worked for Romney to make that a credible threat.