I would like to see the final party breakdown, however. My thought (though I'd need data to confirm it) is that the GOP turnout was fine, but that independents stayed home, attenuating Romney's strong showing with them in the polling. That would explain both the lower overall turnout and Romney's lower percentage.
That’s a great point, and would account for a lot of this just not adding up.
I have no use for recriminations, I don’t think it was a perfect campaign, but it should have been enough, should have been plenty.
This was a wave election for real conservatives, but not for so called ‘moderate’ Republicans, or Indies, and not for democrats.
If you find those numbers - please ping me.
Poll question, now that I’m thinking about it. All along, we heard that enthusiasm was up for R’s over D’s. Here’s my question: When saying ‘enthusiasm is up for an R’ ... does this mean a.) One who identifies as a Republican or b.) Anyone who answered that they were voting for Romney.
Do we know anything about Independent enthusiasm?
I’m sure I could look at some internals, but I imagine someone knows, and I think if I look at another internal, my own internals will spew out my mouth :-)