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Obama's Numbers Went Down, but Romney Never Inspired Voters to Vote

sashamanda Wrote: Dec 27, 2012 10:24 AM

Had Romney been only "the anti-Obama vote," he might have won. Too many would be anti-Obama voters were disgusted by Romney's crony capitalist background, his flip-flopping (outright lies), and his filthy primary campaign. Moreover, the numbers are worse than Barone would have us believe, because at least 10 million more people became eligible to vote since 2008.

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Earl29 Wrote: Dec 27, 2012 3:15 PM

You both have good points.

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Obama's Numbers Went Down, but Romney Never Inspired Voters to Vote

In combing through the results of the 2012 election -- apparently finally complete, nearly two months after the fact -- I continue to find many similarities between 2012 and 2004, and one enormous difference.

Both of the elections involved incumbent presidents with approval ratings hovering around or just under 50 percent facing challengers who were rich men from Massachusetts (though one made his money and the other married it).

In both cases, the challenger and his campaign seemed confident he was going to win -- and had reasonable grounds to believe so.

In both elections, the incumbent started running a barrage...

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