Color me skeptical.
And look at where staying home has gotten us. Not just a president. A complete change to this country.
Obama won in 2008 69 mil to 59 mil.
Right now it is 54 mil to 53 mil Obama leading.
There must be a lot of votes left uncounted before we can say where Romney’s totals will end up.
This is impossible. The anti-Obama vote alone should have increased numbers for the GOP.
Less than McCain in a year where we ran against hope and change with a crappy candidate for a GOP electorate suffering from Bush fatigue?
What am I missing here?
“It looks like all the Freepers who said they’d never vote for Mitt were not making idle threats”
Not just freepers. Freepers (and most other popular conservative online sites) didn’t understand how so many people were for Huckabee in 2008. We don’t even understand our own, let alone the rest of America.
I'm suggesting that pub votes were tossed or changed...
there was true momentum and true numbers out there for Romney...
fewer voters?....hardly...every report around the country said the polls were packed....
fraud that will ever be proven or even investigated...
It will take days to count the last few percents in the big states
I don’t buy it. There were long lines reported at polling places everywhere.
They couldn’t have all been Dems.
The Dems have managed to take voter fraud to a new level. We need to use paper ballots that are scanned. I don’t trust the machines.
There is about 10-12 percent of the country’s voters not tallied yet into the totals.
I think Romney will end up with what Mccain got or slightly more, while Obama is getting far less than he did in 2008.
We just don’t have any more voters. The turnout was +6 Dem and that was with less people voting Obama and staying home.
I voted, I held my nose and voted for a milktoast moderate republican which I vowed to myself I would never do again.
Of course the republicans stayed home, you gave them nothing to vote for
On top of that, Romney never made the sale, never made a clear cut case for voting for him - much less persuade obummer voters to switch and vote for him
I call BullShit! I stood in the cold for an HOUR to vote here in Va. I have lived here 20 years and voted every election and primary. I HAVE NEVER, REPEAT NEVER, had to wait in line here. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! I knew something was up at 6:30 AM yesterday.
Whatever.
Then I blame them.
I didn’t stay home and I didn’t vote for Mitt or Obama. I have the luxury of living in a non-swing state (its strong red state) so I voted my conscience like I have been saying all along. I left the GOP and voted for Virgil Goode.
Of all my friends, I only have one who did not vote today. She lives in Utah and didn’t see the point.
It is the GOP elites fault for putting forth Romney, we could have and SHOULD have done much better and for those that did stay home I think many who held their nose and voted for McCain said ‘never again’.
It is time to fire the entire GOP leadership.
Yep. A lot of people will write it off as voter fraud, but the realiity is many people simply weren’t going to vote for Mitt because of his liberal record.
I was thinking the exact same thing. In 2008, Obama received somewhere north of 69 million votes, and McCain received over 59 million.
Right now Obama has almost 55 million and Romney has almost 54 million.
How the HECK did Obama lose almost 15 million votes and still pull off the win???
I would have NEVER thought that McCain would have received more votes. I was convinced that Romney would trounce that number.
Apparently neither side GOTV’d!!
I suspect that those voting computers were calibrated so even though it looked like your were voting for Romney, it still counted as Zeros vote. I’m just sayin’...
No, I don’t think Republicans stayed home as about 55% of eligible voters did cast their votes. Most elections rarely exceed 40% of the eligible voters casting their votes.
However, there was a group that probably did stay home and they were the Paulites. I know a bunch of them and many of them proudly pronouced that they didn’t cast their votes, so I suspect that a larger proportion of them, relative to their size, did stay home.
All the vote is not in yet. 45% of Cali not in.
If indeed turnout of both sides in down that much, that’s interesting. Very interesting.
And lame, if indeed McCain’s pop vote number would have been enough this time or close to enough. Lack of anyone actually liking Romney was a problem.
Hey I didn’t want him to be nominated. Too bad no one worth a damn ran.
If you don’t think Newt or Perry would have been killed even worse tonight I don’t know what to say. And those liars are barley more conservative than Romney.
Scott Walker please. No more RINO parades. We need a proven CONSERVATIVE LEADER. Not slick liars who tea party it up when conveient for themselves and buddy up with the left behind the scenes. And not good people without the chops like Michelle Bachmann or Herman Cain.
And not blue blood RINO Governors from New England.
Anyone who did stay home, well, I disagree with your decision, big time. Romney is crap, but Obama is evil. But it only mattered if you live in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, exetera.
Still, everyone should vote, the popular vote is of symbolic and rhetorical importance.
isn’t it obvious yet that the election was manipulated by the crook in chief. Do you really think republicans stayed home after 2010