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jlucas Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 1:21 PM
I think it was more due to people not showing up at the polls.
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Roy323 Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 5:58 PM
You are exactly right IMO!
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Corbett_ Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 10:54 AM
Perhaps some of what you say is true, but I think the real reason Obama won a second term was that the GOP picked the one man in America less popular with the GOP rank and file than McCain. The American people were given a choice between Obama and Obama-lite. The Democrats could be enthusiastic about Obama, but virtually no one could be enthusiastic about Willard.
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C. R.4 Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 11:26 AM
No, many of us first thought no on Romney but then heard his message - a man of experience and values. Obama won through out and out fraud and people who only listen to a mellifluous voice and sound bites due to our non-educational system and the illegals who come for freebies and bring very little of value with them for America, and the fact that we are spoiled and like lobsters in cold water on the stove with the heat slowly but surely increasing over the last 40 years of Demos in power. Support those who want term limits! and definitely get Obama and friends out of America's government before it really is too late and we are cooked!
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Corbett_ Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 12:17 PM
CR -- the GOP will never win elections until they admit that they keep picking bad candidates. I suspect that the last time many people could vote GOP without holding their nose was when they voted for Reagan. Basically, that was a generation ago. Since then, the GOP establishment has been foisting off ever-more liberal candidates onto the party base. Until that cycle is broken, the GOP hasn't a chance.
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Lars795 Wrote: Jan 24, 2013 12:22 PM
Just remember, one can always win with 147% of the voters, thugs standing watch to make sure it all goes well, supporters making sure the undecided know how to vote, computers selecting the "proper" selection and not an unwise choice, and bussing voters wherever needed.
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Roy323 Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 5:58 PM
Corbett-I hate to tell you, but you're beating your head against the wall! I am more closely related to "Libertarian" than I am to "Republican" but I would NEVER vote for Ron Paul regardless of his party label. You and I know why you didn't even consider a vote for a repub this year. My Mother, if alive, would have felt the same way. BOTH OF YOU ARE DEAD WRONG!
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