I call BS. Gays have long over estimated their strength as a way of gaining influence. Florida was ALL about fraud.
Posted on 11/20/2012 10:55:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Barack Obama might have gay voters to thank for his reelection, especially right here in Florida. A new analysis suggests that if only straight people went to the polls here, Romney would have pulled off a win by something like two percentage points.
"Similarly, analysis of preliminary returns from Florida show that the 420,000 total LGBT votes cast in the state may be a deciding factor in President Obama's projected lead in Florida," reads a new analysis by the Williams Institue. "Though final results aren't yet known, an estimated 300,000 LGBT Floridians voted for the president -- a margin many times larger than the current vote difference between the two candidates."
Nationally, 76 percent of self-identified LGBT voters voted for the President. Only 22 percent voted for Romney.
In Florida, Obama got 73 percent of the LGBT vote. 26 percent voted from Romney.
That's not much of a surprise. Obama repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and became the first sitting president to personally back gay marriage. Mitt Romney maintains that Obama won because of "gifts" he gave to certain groups of voters, and apparently the "gift" of equality goes a long way.
Among state voters in Florida, the Institute finds that Romney won 51 to 49 percent. Romney also would have won the national popular vote and other close swing states, like Ohio, if it were only up to straight voters.
Bullshit! He won in Florida because of vote fraud. Nothing more, nothing less.
No putz prez bo won FL because of all of the what happens behind closed doors does not bother me votes.
Yes, this is such a lie, he won because of the Latino vote.
He won it by default, since Romney didn't even bother to campaign in Florida for their vote.
Of course, if he had bothered to campaign for the Latino vote they would have asked questions whose answers he did not want to give publicity to, so I guess he did the smart thing.
Notice how gay folk tend to congregate near the coast?
Why is that?
Yep, all those fraudulent votes.
I call BS. Gays have long over estimated their strength as a way of gaining influence. Florida was ALL about fraud.
The one demographic that likes it up the A. Makes sense.
So what are the Republican governor and SoS doing to rectify this?
To the best of my knowledge,not a damn thing.
First—the quoted source is a "Progressive" Miami rag that most (here) would reject its content.
Secondly, Republicans did very well in Governor races.
The national model provided by NYTs Nate Silver pointed to the races in which to concentrate DemoRat fraud.
Republicans (conservatives) reject a candidate who doesn’t match their views 100% on all issues. So if they disagree with him on a single issue, they stay home. Negative. I’ve never been able to figure out what this is supposed to accomplish, except to perpetually had the reins of power to the other side.
So, so true, and so rarely stated. This is the reason for Republican electoral defeats!
Kudos!
math that the pretend purists cannot even vaguely comprehend
Polls show that gays make up less than 3% of the national population. Divide that by 50 for one state. How can that small number be the reason for any election to won?
The same can be said for the African-American vote. They are about 16% of the national population, yet news stories imply that they turned out more than whites. As a percentage that might be true, but not in absolute numbers. There aren't enough of them to counter the "white" vote.
Also, if all these minorities are being cited as being the decisive reason for Obama winning, then how can anyone argue that requiring an ID to vote would suppress minority turnout when they are already turning out in record numbers?
-PJ
What do such voters accomplish? A misguided sense of moral superiority.
You see it here frequently: "Yeah, we got Obama again, but at least I didn't vote for that @#$^% Romney!", or words to that effect.
Such moral absolutists -- single issue, or even 2 or 3 issue, stay-at-homers -- are a definite roadblock to conservative victories. Politics is all about choosing the candidate who most closely matches your own ideas and then supporting him/her strongly! Staying at home and pouting over the 10% (or even 40%) of a candidate's mis-match is a vote for the other guy, who's a 90% mis-match!
As Reagan said: The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20% traitor!
Those who hated Romney and would have rather had Newt should note that Newt campaigned his butt off for Romney after he won the primaries. That's the right way!
Well, to be fair, Romney probably had bad breath.
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