Obama’s numbers went down, but Romney never inspired voters to vote
In retrospect, it looks like both campaigns fell short of their turnout goals. Yes, examination of election returns and exit polls indicates that the Obama campaign turned out voters where it really needed them.
That enabled him to carry Florida by 1 percent, Ohio by 3 percent, Virginia by 4 percent, and Colorado and Pennsylvania by 5 percent. Without those states he would have gotten only 243 electoral votes and would now be planning his presidential library.
But the conservative bloggers who argued that the Obama campaign’s early voting numbers were below target may have been right. If Mitt Romney had gotten 16 percent more popular votes than his predecessor, as John Kerry did, he would have led Obama by 4 million votes and won the popular vote 51 to 48 percent.
Romney, like Kerry, depended on voters’ distaste for the incumbent; he could not hope to inspire the devotion Bush enjoyed in 2004 and that Obama had from a diminished number in 2008.
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Which of Romney’s home states did he win, again? I forget.
ddrintn on December 26, 2012 at 6:43 PM
Run for what? See that’s the problem with you fools – you think the federal government is the answer. You think the federal government will reform itself if you put a bunch of RED SHIRTS in the seats.
That’s NEVER … NOT ONCE … EVER WORKED.
The answer is NOT in D.C. You send pols to DC they get assimilated into the culture.
If you want change – look to the states. Look to the states and say NO! We will not do this. Let the Dims do their worst – let them pass unconstitutional legislation – then the states say “F&&K YOU we ain’t playin”
Only way this gets fixed.
HondaV65 on December 26, 2012 at 6:46 PM
Then your tire of politics and you should devote yourself to something else.
Reagan promised to get rid of the Dept of Ed, but didnt.
ChunkyLover on December 26, 2012 at 6:46 PM
Closest thing he won to a “home state” was Utah … and that only because it’s where his church is based out of.
HondaV65 on December 26, 2012 at 6:48 PM
Yeah, but Reagan dealt with a Dem Congress. And he hadn’t called himself a progressive just a few years before. It’s not about finding someone I agree with 100%, it’s about finding someone that I agree with more than, say, 30%.
ddrintn on December 26, 2012 at 6:49 PM
how many states are not got to form there own obamacare trading post, and its still going forward.
When and What was the last fed law to be Nullified?!?
ChunkyLover on December 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM
Possibly, but let’s take a look at the Obama slime machine.
She makes that statement and within days, the Obama camp, the media and the unions are joined in a full-court press on environmental concerns and positioning the opening of ANWR as detrimental to the land, the economy and anything else they can think of.
It was a game to them and they were prepared to get the upper hand on any issue and exploit it early and often.
If your scenario were true, one of the main speakers at the Democratic convention would have been Al Gore rather than Sandra Fluke.
sherry on December 26, 2012 at 6:51 PM
Wouldn’t have mattered. See, that’s why you squishes are such losers. You play not to lose.
ddrintn on December 26, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Wouldn’t have mattered???
Were you living in a bubble for the last two years?
Snap out of it.
sherry on December 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM
and while your waiting for that candidate people are getting more accustomed to Obamacare, higher taxes, extra consistutional government. Oh I cant what until the Dem commercals in 2016 the Reps are trying to take your Healthcare away from you.
ChunkyLover on December 26, 2012 at 6:55 PM
FOAD, Obama voter.
kim roy on December 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM
Tagg Romney was simply saying that his father ran out of a sense of duty rather than personal ambition. Not only was Mitt Romney the only person who had a chance of defeating Obama, he is the only person with the skills to fix a broken government.
Romney did his part winning Independents by 5%. Unfortunately the country is now D+6. The conservatives who stayed home are too unreliable to matter. Romney maximized the turnout of responsible common sense voters.
Basilsbest on December 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Also you guys seem to forget that we had this thing called I primary where Romney won most of the Delegates. Dont want I Romney then dont split the conservate voting block.
ChunkyLover on December 26, 2012 at 7:01 PM
Try at least six years. These are the same people that excoriated Palin the first time and actually having the dimwit public believing that Romney was going to take away tampons.
But somehow it will be different this time.
kim roy on December 26, 2012 at 7:04 PM
That point always seems to be lost – that 95% of us were ABRs that only came around AFTER the primary was over and realized this was it.
But it’s easier being on a continual whine about it now. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
kim roy on December 26, 2012 at 7:06 PM
Carbon copies are different than the original, but the differences are minor. The only real difference is Obama hates America and proposes flawed laws to harm it. Romney supposedly loves America and somehow ends up with the same solutions as Obama.
I killed them because I detested them = Obama
I killed them because I was trying to save their souls = Romney
Romney would not pledge flexibility to Putin, but he also would likely not put a huge effort into restraining Putin.
I doubt Romney would have had people in Benghazi so the point is moot.
As for people you have to deal with that Obama likes, Romney had many of the same advisers as Governor.
astonerii on December 26, 2012 at 7:15 PM
The evidence of his campaign efforts indicates he only wanted to win the primary.
astonerii on December 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Since this right here pretty much sums up Romney supporters GOTV effort, is it any wonder why anyone wasn’t inspired by him or his campaign?
Spliff Menendez on December 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Barone is an idiot, showering us with his unknowledge.
RINOs are people too on December 26, 2012 at 7:24 PM
This.
We need to come to grips with this. This country is not center-right on national issues anymore. It just isn’t. That is what is profoundly depressing about the election results.
BocaJuniors on December 26, 2012 at 7:27 PM
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