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287,301 in 4 states
Election results | 7 November 2012 | JLS

Posted on 11/07/2012 10:51:37 AM PST by JLS

To me seemingly lost among this hand wringing today is that Romney lost to Obama by less than 300,000 votes of out almost 117,000,000 votes casts. The electoral college can fool one into thinking a close election is a blowout.

This was a close election. As of when I started to write this, had Mitt Romney won 46,040 more votes in Florida and 33,770 more votes in New Hampshire, 100,764 more votes in Ohio and 106,726 more votes in Virginia or 287,301 out of more than 17,500,000 cast in those 4 states.

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results

People here and on the radio need to quit talking like all is lost. There is a GOP House and a cloture proof minority in the Senate and that alone will keep any new initiatives like Obama care from being passed.

As expected, according to the exit polls Romney did better than McCain with women, blacks, Jews, Catholics, etc almost ever demographic except two. Those two were hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/2012-exit-polls/


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But Romney did not do enough better with these groups to win. So what are some of the reasons this happened:

1. Incumbents are hard to beat. The public liked the guy to begin with and some will not want to change.

2. Natural disasters cause people to feel uncertain and in times of uncertainty people become more conservative and go with the guy they know.

3. Romney failed at turnout.

Certainly there was nothing Romney could have done about incumbency. Also nothing Romney could have done about superstorm Christy/Sandy. Certainly Romney could have turned out the vote.

Romney apparently thought he had it won and was talking about working with the other side, while Obama was appealing to his base. Romney followed conventional wisdom and that may well have tipped the balance.

1 posted on 11/07/2012 10:51:44 AM PST by JLS
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To: JLS
The GOP ran into the Obama campaign buzz saw. That's it.

Voter Id laws work, there is less votes. The Dems won't get these numbers again for a while.

The GOP needs to work on attracting younger voters. All is not lost.

2 posted on 11/07/2012 10:57:12 AM PST by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: JLS

I think you are on to something about the Great Storm of 2012. It was an October Surprise that no one could anticipate.

Makes you wonder whose side God is on?

Is it a chastisement?


3 posted on 11/07/2012 10:57:20 AM PST by miserare
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To: JLS

Drudge is showing Romney behind Obama by 2 1/2 million votes. That’s pretty decisive.


4 posted on 11/07/2012 10:57:32 AM PST by driftless2
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Romney underperforming McCain overall tells me that there is something we are missing. All I can think of is the Mormon thing. Romney ran more to the right than most expected after he won the nomination, but a lot of the Bush 2004 voters STILL stayed home, along with some of the MCCAIN voters...and Obama didn’t get them.

Romney ran a campaign TEN TIMES better than McCain, and McCain is hardly any more conservative than Romney.....I am struggling to explain that one. All I can come up with is the Mormon thing. Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin...lower totals in North Carolina..Virginia...

A decent sized section of Protestants really do view the Mormons as a cult. I just thought the economy and the anti Obama view would outweigh that. Maybe it didn’t?


5 posted on 11/07/2012 10:58:53 AM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: JLS

Elections have been close like this for quite some time now. Doesn’t mean too much.


6 posted on 11/07/2012 10:59:43 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: JLS
287,301 in 4 states

Certainly within the range that could've included VOTE FRAUD by numerous means, not the least of which could be hacked voting machines.

7 posted on 11/07/2012 11:00:05 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Never Underestimate the Power of Evil)
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However, Obama DID win.

And the demographic groups won’t get any better for Republicans.

No Republican will get this close to being elected until the coming catastrophic economic collapse.


8 posted on 11/07/2012 11:02:16 AM PST by brownsfan (It's over.)
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To: JLS
in times of uncertainty people become more conservative and go with the guy they know

The irony is not lost here…

9 posted on 11/07/2012 11:02:52 AM PST by mikrofon (+ Prayers for America +)
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To: Crimson Elephant

we’re missing several things including:

1) balls on those who run the GOP

2) results and ideas from the GOP lead congress...

they go hand in hand... the GOP lost a lot of good congressmen and women yesterday in part as they were seen as obstructionists who offered little in the way of alternatives...they were blamed for everything yet the GOPe did not have the courage to point the finger at obama and the rats...


10 posted on 11/07/2012 11:03:00 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: JLS

I am reminded of the South Carolina Primary. Was that a clue that Romney would not have the “it” factor?


11 posted on 11/07/2012 11:05:01 AM PST by glm
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To: RIghtwardHo

It means rather than worry about changing your approach completely, you need to:

1. work on turning out better

2. message better.

You do not need to abandon your philosophy as the Dim and the MSMediots always try to say when an Obama wins by a 300,000 vote “landslide” like this. Notice Reid is already moving to limit minority rights in the Senate in reaction to this landslide.


12 posted on 11/07/2012 11:05:19 AM PST by JLS
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To: driftless2
Drudge is showing Romney behind Obama by 2 1/2 million votes. That’s pretty decisive.

Plus there are indications that voter turnout was behind both 2008 and 2004. Both D and R. Where were our people? Why didn't they vote?

13 posted on 11/07/2012 11:07:04 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Crimson Elephant

Maybe you are on to something with the Mormon thing. I view them as a cult (albeit a pretty benign one), but I still voted for him. Maybe a lot of people stayed home because of it.


14 posted on 11/07/2012 11:08:44 AM PST by cdcdawg
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To: Theoria

Exactly though I would not use the term “buzz saw.” Romney did not quite get over the hump against an incumbent president for a number of reasons, some beyond his control and some he failed to control.


15 posted on 11/07/2012 11:09:30 AM PST by JLS
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People here and on the radio need to quit talking like all is lost.

All is not lost.. after all we still have sunshine and butterflies.

Thanks for the pep-talk, but what's happening to America is nothing less hideous disaster. It would have been such, even if Romney would have squeaked by last night. We simply can't function as a nation when half the population are functional morons.

REAL morons. Literally functional morons.

16 posted on 11/07/2012 11:10:09 AM PST by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: brownsfan

So you are back in 2008 where the GOP/conservatives will never win for a generation? I happen to remember 2010.

I know this is a closely divided country where each election is hard fought. You can believe the Dim/MSMediot spin that any close Dim win is a landslide showing the political landscape has changed if you want.


17 posted on 11/07/2012 11:15:02 AM PST by JLS
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To: cdcdawg

Yes I have to admit I feel the same way, and I still voted for him, but I definitely can see it costing votes, though I thought it would be more in the South...however, it might have hurt a LOT in the panhandle and in Ohio and Virginia.


18 posted on 11/07/2012 11:18:03 AM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: miserare
Makes you wonder whose side God is on?

Actually, it is up to each one of us to be sure we are on God's side, to the extent we can.

With roe vs wade, queer marriage, booting God from schools and the public square, along with a couple/three other biggies, it is clear that the majority of Americans are not on God's side. While God loves people, He cares not one whit for nations. They come and they go. The United States will collapse, as surely as sh!t stinks.

The thinking behind headlines like "Brown wins big with passage of Prop 30" will ensure that collapse. California is already past the tipping point. Rather than spend what they have left on an attempted recovery, they are lusting after a high speed train to hurry them on their way to disaster.

Before the big fall, the wealth of some states will be diverted through the US Treasury to prop California (and other states) up. But, as surely as that malodorous excrement mentioned above the day of calamity will come.

19 posted on 11/07/2012 11:21:44 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: JLS

In any lost election it is easy to do a what-if and contrive another outcome.

Citing 300k is just cherry picking in my opinion as we lost the popular vote by 2.5 million and while we all understand that it is the electoral college process that is the actual instrument that elects the President, it is a reflection of voters in each state electing those electors by their choice for President.

When we can’t get a majority of the people to not elect the most socialist incompetent performer with a bad track record, we have to acknowledge that the clowns have control of the fun house.

Not only did Obama get a majority of electoral votes, he got a solid majority of popular votes across the nation. Not only did Romney loose on both, he pulled less voters than McCain! Think of that — less than McCain the guy that channeled Richard Nixon in a lot of minds — Romney couldn’t pull as well as McCain even after the country knew what a disaster Obama was from a record of four years.

Our countrymen are no longer made up in the majority with people that think like we and our ancestors thought, lived and believed — that is what has been solidly shown by this election regardless of Romney’s warts. That is a sobering thought.

We could previously look at the subversion of our culture and country and see it as being instituted by a malicous minority of leftist activists. Now we must realize that they have done their work, their brainwashing, their re-education and we are the minority while our countrymen have chosen to go down the rabbit hole of history.

Previously we could look at ourselves as the protectors and rescue force, with all the associated self congratulations — now we are the forces trying to sell Change — we are outside the majority and we must consider that our countrymen have to want what we offer.


20 posted on 11/07/2012 11:31:38 AM PST by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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