Surprise — there was voter fraud. There is voter fraud in every election. You will always find someone who tries to cheat. The question is, can you find 4 million cheaters. Can you find 100,000 cheaters in one state. It has NEVER been found before.
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There were three states where Obama won by less than 5%. They were FL, OH and VA. FL was the closest and the only one less than 100,000 vote differential, about 73,000. If you could have changed the three Obama would still have one.
Florida is really the one state I was surprised by when Obama won.
Some of the voter fraud people claim Romney really won Wisconsin, and the only reason he lost was because the democrats bused in people from Illinois. 200,000 of them, apparently.
The sad thing is, if you think about how hard it would be to get 100,000 fraudulent votes in a state, without getting caught, you would also realize that it would be EASIER to get 100,000 unregistered people to actually register and vote.
After all, there were some 80 million people who were eligible to register and vote, who didn’t bother. If every conservative made it their mission between now and 2014 to find ONE unregistered conservative and get them to vote, we would sweep the elections in 2014.
But while we have been fighting over who our conservative flag-bearer would be, and chortling about how we have radio shows and web sites, the democrats have spent the last 8 years doing exactly that — going door to door, getting EVERY democrat to find another one.
They blanketed college campuses. Every time I visited my daughter and we walked through the campus, at least one person would ask us if we were registered, and if not would we. They had events with food, tables with 50 people in line waiting to register and vote, events with locally known musicians.
And then they collected all those names, and went back to every one to make sure they either voted absentee, or that they had rides to the election polling places.
In places where republicans have good grass-roots efforts, we did fine in 2012. But we really have lost our ability to reach out to new voters and get them to the polls.
Of course, it’s a lot easier to hit the high-occupancy areas like inner cities and college campuses, and the democrats have spent 30 years converting their party to the party that caters to the city-dwellers and the young college types. It is like they don’t do principles, they just want power, and they tailored their entire political philosophy to reach the easiest-to-reach voters.