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Thank you CGVet58. Since I wrote that response here, the figures have changed. More votes were reported out.
The figures to this point are these:
Obama: 2008 69,498,215 2012 63,561,092 Drop: 8.54%
Repub: 2008 59,948,240 2012 59,684,096 Drop: 0.44%
Those numbers keep changing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Romney vote eclipses the McCain vote in time.
That’s not to state that it shouldn’t have been more due to population expansion alone.