How Romney could have won the popular vote (It all came down to turnout)

Daily Caller ^ | 06/01/2013

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Ditto.

[Jim Noble]

You would invoke the nuclear war fighting principle “use it or lose it” and not commit all your forces to a certain outcome?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Not exactly.

It now appears some groups of moslem savages just need to be wiped out. We can do it without taking out a city.

If the local populace decides to take them out, or turn them over to avoid further damage....good.

If not, we can eliminate the city or region. How long we going to keep pussyfooting around?

[SoConPubbie]

Do you really think it was "Romney lies" that did in Perry or Bachmann or Caine or Santorum or Gingrich? Didn't they have obvious negatives? If any of them had gotten the nomination the DNC would have hammered away at those negatives. I don't see any of them doing any better than Romney did, at least according to the polling data, and the polls did come closer to the actual result than people who scoffed at them.

Were you paying attention during the South Carolina and Florida primaries?

Romney got hammered in SC, and then went on an all-out attack lying about the made up ethics charges against Newt while he was speaker.

He didn't misspeak, he didn't give his opinion, HE LIED.

He and his surrogates did the same thing to all the other candidates that threatened him.

You ask me if I think "Romney lies" did in the other candidates and if I am totally discounting the blemishes on the other candidates?

That is a two-part question:

1. IF Romney had run an above-board campaign during the primaries, he would have lost. No lying, Romney would have lost.
2. The negatives on the other candidates, whatever they were, did not rise to the level of the dirty campaigning by Romney nor did it rise anywhere near to the Progressive Liberal history that Romney owns.

[SoConPubbie]

You add in the following, and Romney wouldn’t even place:

1. Full disclosure on Romney’s Progressive Liberal record.
2. Closed Republican Primaries.

[OneWingedShark]

Wow. Very well said.

Thank you.

[Lady Heron]

Rick Santorum outperformed Romney by a mile in the south. The southern candidates were pathetic last time around.

I agree about the candidates...the point was on who wins historically. Northeastern liberal republican...a statistical shoe in to loose. Look at history and find the last Northeastern republican to win a national election....it is just fact.

The problem is that the heads of the party, knows as well as I do, historically and statistically what wins national elections for them and they chose to lose in a year that they could have blown this election out of the water in a Reagan landslide.

Things that make you go hmmmm....