The Voters who stayed Home (bitter pill: Republicans re-elected Obama)

National Review Online ^ | 11/10/12 | McCarthy

[pabianice]

The key to understanding the 2012 election is simple: A huge slice of the electorate stayed home.

The punditocracy — which is more of the ruling class than an eye on the ruling class — has naturally decided that this is because Republicans are not enough like Democrats: They need to play more identity politics (in particular, adopt the Left’s embrace of illegal immigration) in order to be viable. But the story is not about who voted; it is about who didn’t vote. In truth, millions of Americans have decided that Republicans are not a viable alternative because they are already too much like Democrats. They are Washington. With no hope that a Romney administration or more Republicans in Congress would change this sad state of affairs, these voters shrugged their shoulders and became non-voters.

“This is the most important election of our lifetime.” That was the ubiquitous rally cry of Republican leaders. The country yawned. About 11 million fewer Americans voted for the two major-party candidates in 2012 — 119 million, down from 130 million in 2008. In fact, even though our population has steadily increased in the last eight years (adding 16 million to the 2004 estimate of 293 million Americans), about 2 million fewer Americans pulled the lever for Obama and Romney than for George W. Bush and John Kerry.

That is staggering.

[Elsie]

We have a two party system.

Those Libertarians are gonna be quite surprised when they find THIS out!

[Elsie]

...you bought the monkey.

In this thread it appears that I am merely enraging the monkey.

[driftdiver]

I’m sure they will since most are too stupid to understand how the political system works.

[Gene Eric]

>> the Left was in full gloat mode, declaring white, working, patriotic America dead and buried and thank goodness.

Many are those Leftists are also White.

[Elsie]

Would that shoot down the 'stay at home voter' argument?

NO...

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(Improvement Era, June 1945, p. 354)

 

 

 

Reinforced here......

 

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Don't criticize?

 

Dallin H. Oaks, Mormon Apostle 

 

 

 

And here:

 

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Oh, they can say that their leaders were NOT speaking for GOD when they said    WHATEVER    but that's NOT the same as criticizing!

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( Remember fellow Christians:  the Mormon's criticize US because they've been taught that they CAN'T criticize ANY of their leaders; so they HAVE to vent somehow! )

[GlockThe Vote]

People like you gave us Obama 2.0

[spirited irish]

“All Mitt had over Obozo is econmics.”

Spirited: Agreed, and before posturing himself as conservative he publicly described himself as a progressive, a claim he put into action as governor of Mass.

Mitt even boasted of being more pro-gay than Obama and showed himself more than eager to throw the Boy Scouts and public school youth to ‘gay’ wolves wearing dresses..

Had Mitt won, his “conservative” bride would have been betrayed after a brief, blissful honeymoon.

[RipSawyer]

My tiny precinct was certainly busy! The poll manager, a wealthy white Republican farmer who has been voting at that location for fifty or more years said he has NEVER seen it so busy. I have voted there for decades myself and never seen it nearly so busy.

[Gene Eric]

>> yet 8 millions did not turn up either for his side,.

The “8 million” should have turned up for our side. But they didn’t. And now we have another 4 year term of guaranteed Leftism.

[Fee]

Ron Paul supporters stayed home. Why? Several caucus states
Ron Paul won delegates only to be over ruled by state GOP. The ones who made it to the convention walked out after the party passed resolutions by voice vote to make it harder for nonestablishment candidates to win delegates in caucuses. Reason is quite simple, Wall Street bankers. For over a decade Ron Paul’s efforts finally is paying off as it gets a firm foothold in the GOP. Wall Street bankers and proponents of the Fed Reserve can not tolerate that because if the movement grows it is a threat to their interests. One phone call the the GOP (Dems also) beholden to the true power in the US smashed Ron Paul foothold. Ron Paul delegates played by the rules and were told the rules change. So why participate in the GOP if they act like Stalinist Dems? They stayed home. Pretty stiff price to pay placating the Wall Street bankers and Fed Reserves?? Wonderful bunch, one implodes the economy selling liar loan mortgage notes as AAA investments, the other pressures US gov to bailout the bankers by printing money (slowly killing the middle class with inflation) and the GOP willing to cater to their needs and causes an important faction to stay home in a close election giving Obama another four years. Lovely, just lovely.

[Elsie]

I’m sure they will since most are too stupid to understand how the political system works.

Whew!

And all along I thought you were saving just for little ol' me!

[Elsie]

I’m sure they will since most are too stupid to understand how the political system works.

Whew!

And all along I thought you were saving your vitrol just for little ol' me!

[Elsie]

And you are quite welcome.

People like you gave us Romney 0.5 to vote for.

[GlockThe Vote]

I voted for Ron Paul in the primary genius.

[roamer_1]

yes you should be proud Obama won and you helped him destroy this country. bravo

Even in defeat, you cannot see. Amazing. One would think that some introspection would assert itself.

Time for some navel gazing... you were told over and over that ABO was an insufficient reason.

Here's yer sign...

Let's see if all y'all will be Conservatives next time, or simply mere Republicans.

I doubt it.

[Elsie]

And now we have another 4 year term of guaranteed Leftism.

Oh; NO!

You've not been paying attention!

We are GUARANTEED an ETERNITY of leftism if you listem to the doom and gloomers posting here today.

[Elsie]

So did I!!

So we do have something in common other than the animosity we’ve been showing each other today.

[NoLibZone]

Freepers did more for OBama than Chris Matthews and Bill Maher- RAcheal Madcow and NYT - combined.

As they await Reagen rising form the dead.

[Gene Eric]

It is possible that most who refused to vote for Romney are in Red states where their abstinence didn’t matter.

We now need to plan for the midterms.

[Eye of Unk]

Obama just called up his good buddy Chavez way down south and just asked him how he won his elections.