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The 400,000 Votes That Tipped the Election

FinalRac Wrote: Nov 12, 2012 1:45 PM

I cannot fathom how caving into radical liberalism by Pubs and conservs because Dems are giving them tips to aid their party. Please. Dems want Pubs, conservs, Christians, TEAS to dis-solve . They do not want conservs even in the USA. The only way Pubs can recover is to actually learn to communicate conserv truths and not not not compromise with any more socialist solutions. It appears that the Pubs are simply going down the way of the Whigs and will compromise their values so much that only communism will be left to run the nation and that will doom the republic, free enterprise and the Const. We are done if they cave anymore.

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The 400,000 Votes That Tipped the Election

Broad trends and the national political undertow can't be adequately captured in any single statistic -- but if Mitt Romney had managed to push the electorate in a handful of states a few clicks in his direction, he'd be the president-elect, rather than an also-ran. Via Jim Geragthy:

Florida: 73,858

Ohio: 103,481

Virginia: 115,910

Colorado: 113,099

Those four states, with a collective margin of, 406,348 for Obama, add up to 69 electoral votes. Had Romney won 407,000 or so additional votes in the right proportion in those states, he would have 275...