David Limbaugh Column: Trouble Brewing In the GOP

Why would he want to do that when that's one of the things he just fought to the death for?

When they won independence, barely, they tried to make him King and he obviously turned it down.

We would do well to understand his warnings.

Hard not to see his wisdom looking at how far we've sunk ignoring it.

In the final analysis, votes rule the day.

Conservatives are in deep trouble - perhaps irreversible trouble - on that fact.

Legal immigration adds 500,000 new Democrats each year.

Amnesty will add another 5 million new Democrats.

The death rate subtracts Conservative votes each year.

The birth rate adds Democrat votes each year.

And the Hard Left MSM controls voter information.

There are no independents ~ no middle of the road ~ no undecided.

Whatever they might be called, there are still some number of voters who will move their presidential vote from one party to the other during different elections. I think they are around 20% to 30% of the electorate. The rest are pretty firmly to the left or right and probably nothing will cause them to vote for the other party, though there are things that will cause some of them to stay at home.

The choice made is going to vote to not going to vote ~ who they'll vote for is already fixed in their minds.

That's the first piece of politics that Thomas Jefferson proved as his new Republican/Democratic party crushed the Federalists out of existence.

His claim to fame in raw gutter politics was GET OUT THE VOTE ~ get your people to vote for your party people ~

Now, regarding the absence of the Rockefeller Republicans

I did a spreadsheet by state showing the Obama/McCain vote in 2008 and the Obama/Romney vote in 2012, and computed how many votes the candidates gained or lost in each state from 2008 to 2012.. Now that you have raised the point that W got more votes in 2004 than either McCain or Romney, I might go back and add the 2004 vote.

You might be part right on Rocketfeller Republicans, but I'm confident many of McCain's stances and Romney's general lack of conservatism on many issues caused a significant number of conservatives to stay home in 2008 and 2012. Knowing what happened by state from 2004 to 2012 should tell some of the story.

Being confident I have to the final vote totals isn't easy since many of the networks never finalized the vote tallies on their websites. I've used Wiki which has the highest totals and might be the most complete.

And here's another interesting point from the Washington Times

on 11/20/2012:

According to the National Popular Vote Tracker, Governor Romney garnered 59,979,858 votes this election cycled compared to Senator McCain in 2008 who picked up 59,948,323 votes. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, dropped about 5.5 million votes behind his 2008 total to 64,005,851 this year.

PICKET: Romney passes McCain's 2008 popular vote total, Obama 5.5 mil behind '08 total

Those numbers weren't final, but the changes from 2008 did hold, with Romney gaining even more votes and Obama gaining some more votes, but still around four million below 2008.

The choice made is going to vote to not going to vote ~ who they'll vote for is already fixed in their minds.

But for 20% or more of the voters, it is not fixed in their mind which party's candidate they will support election after election. We definitely have significant numbers of voters who move back-and-forth between party's when voting for president in different year's elections. Call them whatever or call them nothing, but they do exist and they can swing elections from one to the next.

The original purpose of campaigning ~ starting with Jefferson ~ was to rouse your own voters to show up to vote. Going horseback 20 miles from your frontier settlement to the county seat was a difficult task. If you didn't encourage your party's adherents to show up, who else did you imagine would do it?

You'd also want to let the other party's adherents know what a scoundral their guy was to discourage them from bothering to vote.

We still do that. Some imagine there are magic words that will change minds at the last minute.

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