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Obama Won Ohio in 2012 With Fewer Votes Than McCain Received in 2008
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Posted on 11/07/2012 11:17:25 AM PST by Arthurio

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To: Arthurio

Maybe this is why....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUpBmnJDDU


21 posted on 11/07/2012 11:32:10 AM PST by oust the louse (Obamacare has morphed into a tax on staying alive.)
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To: Arthurio

Not that it matters all that much, but doesn’t Ohio have 130,000 provisional & absentee ballots they said was going to take 10 days to receive and count.


22 posted on 11/07/2012 11:32:13 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Arthurio

As per every election since 1964, the pct as decribed below is repeated

The Ohio relationship continues - National Pct: Obama 51.1 Romney 48.9 ; Ohio Pct: Obama 51.0 Romney 49.0 - Dems underperform.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2944697/posts


23 posted on 11/07/2012 11:32:34 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Arthurio

I guess Muslim > Mormon


24 posted on 11/07/2012 11:32:34 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: Arthurio
As always, there are likely multiple reasons.

One big reason in Ohio that gets overlooked -- the Ohio legislature, dominated by Republicans, passed Senate Bill 5 to stick it to unions. The unions gathered signatures & put it on the 2011 ballot then turned out big to repeal it.

There are a lot of union members & households in NE Ohio who could potentially vote Republican & have before (i.e. "Reagan Democrats").

However, the GOP was tarnished over what happened with Senate Bill 5 & the unions did not forget.

Not the only reason for last night. But I maintain it's a bigger one than people suspect.

25 posted on 11/07/2012 11:33:00 AM PST by gdani
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To: Arthurio
Still have to count the absentee and provisional ballots. I expect that will result in a lot more than the 5,500 difference you're looking at now.
26 posted on 11/07/2012 11:33:24 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: God luvs America
"the pool of Republican voters was pretty large in 2010."

Yeah, but millions of low-information voters don't pay much attention to mid-terms.

But when the Messiah is running, telling them "those folks gonna take your free shit away", it is an entirely different game.

27 posted on 11/07/2012 11:33:56 AM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: Arthurio

Also democrat voter fraud


28 posted on 11/07/2012 11:34:25 AM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: chicken head

I didn’t see her campaigning for Romney or much for anyone else this election - or am I wrong ?


29 posted on 11/07/2012 11:35:41 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: zt1053

Like several others here, I’m really suspicious about some of the outcomes of this election, after the huge crowds that Romney drew. The fact that there were malfunctioning voting machines really worries me—yes, we caught the ones that showed the vote changed to Obama early on, but who’s to say what happened after the fact, after the voter had cast his/her vote, especially in Democratic regions. This whole election stinks, and I’m fed up with the damned Republicans, and Romney, for not really examining this more closely.


30 posted on 11/07/2012 11:36:08 AM PST by binreadin
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To: Perdogg

I just don’t see how it is possible with all the stories yesterday of long lines and packed GOP voting districts. I don’t recall stories like that in 2008


31 posted on 11/07/2012 11:36:37 AM PST by jbwbubba
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To: Arthurio

Still 300,000 absentee and provision ballots.

http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2012/11/7-november-2012-—provisionals.html


32 posted on 11/07/2012 11:37:12 AM PST by publius1 (Just to be clear: my position is no.)
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To: Arthurio

Still 300,000 absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2012/11/7-november-2012-—provisionals.html


33 posted on 11/07/2012 11:37:41 AM PST by publius1 (Just to be clear: my position is no.)
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To: Arthurio

Still 300,000 absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2012/11/7-november-2012-—provisionals.html


34 posted on 11/07/2012 11:37:46 AM PST by publius1 (Just to be clear: my position is no.)
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To: zt1053

voter fraud?...who is watching the counters? Who is calibrating the machines? What is the process? Why did Betty Sutton Lose and Sherrod Brown and Obama won? Did they only calibrate the wins for Brown and Obama?
Why did Obama sound so sure of himself when he told Russia on the hot mic that he had greater flexibility in his second term?
Is Betty Suttons loss the real reflection on how this election should have gone?


35 posted on 11/07/2012 11:38:19 AM PST by oust the louse (Obamacare has morphed into a tax on staying alive.)
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To: PMAS

Well, she voted for newt.. I dont think she likes mittens— mabe cause he is a liberal? I dont know


36 posted on 11/07/2012 11:38:19 AM PST by chicken head
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To: PMAS

She also wasnt invited to speak at the RNC eather— hum


37 posted on 11/07/2012 11:40:07 AM PST by chicken head
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To: Arthurio
Literally millions of McCain voters stayed home this time. Even though Obama lost 20% of his 2008 voters, Mitt still couldn’t win. So, all these McCain voters really stayed home, and nobody can convince me that they have fallen in love with communism in the last four years.

They must hate Romney so much that they just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for him, even though they probably wanted Obama to go. Why do they hate Romney? Are they hardcore conservatives? Some perhaps, but that is not enough reason to cause such hatred. I think it is either

  1. because he is a Mormon, or
  2. because he is filthy rich.
Both of these things can cause strong dislike in some people. Caused by religious reasons, or envy, respectively.

So, at least it isn’t demographics or anything else that is impossible to change in the foreseeable future. Just nominate a poor evangelical, next time…

38 posted on 11/07/2012 11:41:49 AM PST by cartan
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To: Crimson Elephant
"Romney was successful in energizing his base: conservatives accounted for 35 percent of all voters today, one-point higher than in 2008. And he captured 82 percent of them (McCain got 78 percent). White born-again Christians made up 26 percent of the voters today and 78 percent favored Romney (for McCain it was 74 percent)."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/fox-news-exit-poll-summary/#ixzz2BZFBcj2Z

39 posted on 11/07/2012 11:42:47 AM PST by PghBaldy
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To: Arthurio

It’s all about branding. Clinton went on every Talk show, even on MTV, Bush got kissed by Oprah. McCain never saw a microphone he didn’t love. It’s all about getting out there. I think a lot of folks who don’t really follow this stuff were like Mitt who? I think ideology is secondary to “rock star” tactics.


40 posted on 11/07/2012 11:43:45 AM PST by Homer1
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