[SeekAndFind]

Both parties lost support of the population in the four years between 2008 and 2012. While Obama lost more support, he started with more, and he was able to hang on to enough of his base to overcome Romney's inability to keep and expand his base.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Article addendum:


"Just One" major speech (each) by the following individuals at Mitt Romney's invitation at the 2012 Tampa GOP Convention ...

would have given Myth Romney the U.S. Presidency ...


Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum, and JOHN BOLTON ...



"There" ... "fixed that" ...

[Jumper]

If there was only a way to determine of Obama won the election by the stroke of a pen in granting citizenship and voting rights to 11-13M Hispanics?

[petercooper]

bttt

[Thunder90]

That swing would have been enough to win the Senate as well.

[Baynative]

If just 1 out of every 5 people who voted for McCain would have recruited a vote for Romney he’d have won by 10 MILLION.

[RIghtwardHo]

And 600 votes in FL in 2000 would have given Al Gore the Presidency.

This means nothing. I see we are letting the pundits keep us in the mud. Time to crawl out and be Conservatives.

[bassmaner]

What do these facts tell us?

F-R-A-U-D.

On an unprecedented scale.

[Chewbarkah]

The Virginia Board of Elections website shows the vote totals as:
Obama: 1,971,777
Romney: 1,822,466
Difference: 149,311

Not sure if the other state totals from this article are also inaccurate.
149,311 is still within the margin of cheating, but let’s not embarrass ourselves by using false information.

[wideminded]

There have been a lot of close elections in recent years and I wonder if one reason is because of the increasing sophistication of the election tracking methods used by the people running campaigns.

Assuming that political advertising works to some extent, let's say that accurate tracking polls show that candidate A is ahead in a certain state. Then candidate A's campaign can save on advertising costs, since they only have to be sure of winning. They don't need to pay for an unnecessary extra margin. Similarly, if they can accurately track voting on election day with exit polls, the winning side doesn't need to do any more get-out-the-vote work than necessary.

So it is possible that if candidate B does a better job, candidate A will also increase their efforts, but only by just enough to win.

If candidate B did such a good job campaigning that the polls flipped in a particular state, then the same factors would still tend to make it a close election.

[petitfour]

I was wondering how to find out if I voted in places where I have lived over the past 20 years. As in, am I still a registered voter in Virginia. And a few other places.

[StAnDeliver]

BOOKMARKED

[mo]

Romney contested the primaries harder than he contested the election.

He certainly has little to no need of the Constitutional Freedoms most of us depend upon for our careers and to support our families. He’s got “his”

[Nevermore]

If “ifs” and “buts” were candy & nuts, we’d all have a happy Christmas!