I originally tried to post this using mostly Wikipedia data - which appears to be the most current - but Free Republic does not allow Wiki articles to be posted.
I don't have time to go back and refigure and re-edit every number.
Dave Leip's numbers are almost exactly the same, so I linked to his site instead of Wiki.
Sorry for any confusion.
My original post was the following...
Wikipedia uses the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS.org) for state vote totals.
Not all states have certified, so current results are not final.
Also, NASS.org does not appear to tabulate a running national vote total.
I'll guess the Wikipedia researcher had to calculate his own national vote total, so his/her vote total may be subject to calculation error.
I compared Wikipedia to "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections."
Dave Leip is an election fanatic and is often quoted by major news sources.
Leip's numbers are slightly lower than Wikipedia, but his percentages are almost the same.
Via Wikipedia...
Obama is down almost 5.5 million votes from 2008.
Romney is just 4,000 votes behind McCain's 2008 total.
Libertarians had the best showing among Third Parties - 1.242 million (0.99%)
Greens came in fourth - 450,000 (0.36%)
Total Third Parties - about 2 million votes (1.7%)
So, where do we go from here!
Add the Libertarians to Romney’s vote still wouldn’t of put him over.
Does anyone go back and look at the fraud stats / numbers and come up with a percent ? Obama took all the big the cities but I wonder how much is fraud...
Republicans need to try a candidate that people want to vote for.
When you lose to Jimmy Carter’s second term when on the verge of a depression, then you had the wrong candidate.
So running against Reagan was still the strongest showing the libertarians ever had, with 1.06% of the vote.
I was looking at the numbers and it is interesting to see that PA moved rightward and almost mirrored VA. Even though Romney reclaimed several states Obama won in 2008 he still is on track to get less votes than McCain though Obama lost the most votes over 2008. Its really clear that Team Romney’s strategy to play it safe and let Team Obama totally define Romney through the summer set up this defeat. Sure Huricane Sandy didn’t help but had Romney drove up Obama’s negatives he would’ve been in a much better position. It was interesting to see that Romney got less votes in Ohio than McCain however he did do better in FL and VA.
There is no mystery as to why Romney lost and it wasn’t hispanics, blacks, and gays. Its because conservative blue collar voters stayed home rather than vote for Romney or Obama and those voters should’ve been in Romney’s camp which validates how very effective Obama’s voter suppression ad campaign worked with those voters. Romney could’ve did the same but didn’t run even one hard hitting ad accussing Obama of anything. The Romney ads favored impersonal announcers and uninspiring themes. The most horrible part of this election is the feeling that our side totally wasted its resources without really laying a hand on the President. What we need are more Lee Atwaters and less gentlemen snob consultants who routinely hold love ins with the left. Look at the McCain campaign manager who is now a regular on MSNBC you don’t have to go further than that.
I was looking at the numbers and it is interesting to see that PA moved rightward and almost mirrored VA. Even though Romney reclaimed several states Obama won in 2008 he still is on track to get less votes than McCain though Obama lost the most votes over 2008. Its really clear that Team Romney’s strategy to play it safe and let Team Obama totally define Romney through the summer set up this defeat. Sure Huricane Sandy didn’t help but had Romney drove up Obama’s negatives he would’ve been in a much better position. It was interesting to see that Romney got less votes in Ohio than McCain however he did do better in FL and VA.
There is no mystery as to why Romney lost and it wasn’t hispanics, blacks, and gays. Its because conservative blue collar voters stayed home rather than vote for Romney or Obama and those voters should’ve been in Romney’s camp which validates how very effective Obama’s voter suppression ad campaign worked with those voters. Romney could’ve did the same but didn’t run even one hard hitting ad accussing Obama of anything. The Romney ads favored impersonal announcers and uninspiring themes. The most horrible part of this election is the feeling that our side totally wasted its resources without really laying a hand on the President. What we need are more Lee Atwaters and less gentlemen snob consultants who routinely hold love ins with the left. Look at the McCain campaign manager who is now a regular on MSNBC you don’t have to go further than that.
Thanks for the effort If your going to post the final fgures and I hope you do I hope you will be able to run them down state by state.