Romney couldn’t beat Obama?
Romney didn’t beat McCain.
Disgraceful. A billion dollar campaign? What did Republicans get for their money?
McCain, 2008 popular vote: 58,319,442
Romney, 2012 popular vote: 58,163,978
That is the biggest fact of this election and no one is talking about it.
Actually, McCain’s popular vote total was 59,950,323...
(comprehensive results back to 1789 - look for the 2008 results)...
...and Romney has 58,167,260 so far through 12:10pm today...
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/
Keep checking back to that site for updates; they will probably keep it going for another week or so... nearly *all* of the absentee ballots have yet to be counted, and that is millions more votes to add to the totals; the states differ as to final certification dates; the earliest would be 15 days, November 21. Others will not be for 30 days, December 6.
Romney will likely catch McCain’s 59,950,323 and hit the 60 million number at the end of the counting.
By Electoral College day, you should be able to look at the first site and get the *final* Final Totals.
Your point is well taken though; basically, after a Billion + dollars were spent by each campaign; Romney convinced exactly zero people to vote for him over and above what McCain did. McCain’s campaign was easily the worst campaign ever on the R side (McGovern’s on the D side was their worst). Romney couldn’t top it. The reason is that he is to the left of ‘maverick’ McCain.
Romney was the gun-grabbing; big-government, abortion-supporting, Wall Street CEO Governor of *Massachusetts* (!); presider of the introduction of gay ‘marriage’ architect of Socialized Medicine in the United States.
In other words, the *PERFECT* Democrat resume. Sans Obama, if Romney had happened to have a D after his name, the same Democrats that loathe him, would be crawling over broken glass to go vote for him.
So between Obama and Romney; if you are going to have to vote for a D anyway; you might as well vote for a *real* one; hence Obama re-elected.