“The problem is that there are more Dem voters than Rep voters. If a failed President like Obama can get reelected, it tells me that this country has reached a tipping point. Tribal politics are the now the dominant force in this country. Obama received only 39% of the white vote and won the election by 5 million votes”.
You’re right, but Romney didn’t get as many votes as McCain did four years ago. Romney, terrible candidate. A half-way decent candidate would have beaten Obamagabe.
I have heard many people repeat this lie. I don't know where it got started. The fact is that Romney received a million more votes than McCain did in 2008.
In 2012 Romney received 60,932,176 votes compared to McCain's 59,950,323. Romney beat McCain by percentages of the total vote as well--47.2% to 45.6%. Source: David Leip's Atlas of US Elections
Romney did better than McCain in 8 of the 9 battleground states. He also did better than Rep senatorial nominees in states like ND, IN, and Missouri.
Obama received four million votes less in 2012 than he did in 2008. The problem wasn't Romney. It is a problem of demographics and tribal voting. Blacks (95%), Asians (73%), and Hispanics (71%) voted for Obama in overwhelming numbers. Romney received 59% of the white vote, which would have won him elections in any year including in 2008. The problem is that the white vote is shrinking as a percentage of the population. It is now 66% compared to 89% in 1970. We have reached a tipping point and I don't see how the Reps regain the WH in our lifetime.
By 2042 half of the population of this country will be minorities as defined by the USG. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities. Each year that a cohort turns 18 means another infusion of Dem voters and each cohort will be more Dem than the previous one. This is happening while whites become a smaller percentage of the population and die off removing Rep voters. Add to that the 1.2 million LEGAL immigrants we bring in each year, 87% of them minorities as defined by the USG. They vote Dem by more than two to one. Is it any wonder the Reps are panicked?