Doesn't it seem a bit odd that not much is being made of the fact that 11 million less people vote in 2012 than in 2008? I am sure there are still votes to be counted which will go into the final totals but I am sure it won't come anywhere near making this election less participated in than 2008. As it stands now less people voted yesterday than in
2004. Going back 3 decades I can find no case where there were less voters from one election to the next
less alone over two elections. I don't know, something doesn't seem quite right here. Why would so many people simply not vote from one election to the next. I can see Obama dropping off, but Romney didn't get as many votes as McCain in 2008 or even Kerry in 2004. This just seems weird to me.
Jer
Two great minds again...I was just looking at the same thing
ReplyDeleteLooking for the demographics of how many repubs voted in 2008..and how many voted in 2012
can't find that number just yet
One thing, knowing that the dems got the early vote out...and it was repubs that historically do not trust early voting and the repubs did not push them to early vote
..then reporting that it's a landslide Romney, and reporting waiting in line until after midnight
I'm sure there were some repubs that said "landslide Romney" and " 6-8 hour lines"
...they really don't need my vote so I'll stay home
I'm still looking for the numbers of repub voters for each election....
It was 32 % in 2008 and I believe it was 32% again this year, which again makes little sense but it is possible if a bunch of Reps went Independent after 2008, which they say happened. I'm going to do some checking into this in individual counties and see what shakes out
DeleteJer, look for the number, not percentage...
DeleteI know that number is out there, I can't find it..google is no help...all the search words I can think of lead to something else
I'm still looking...
They won't have #'s for that . The only way they even estimate is through exit . You just have to take the % and multiply it times total vote and that is just a estimate
DeleteGOP votes dissappeared along the way.
ReplyDeleteIt was all planned. The Obama Team had got the shock of there lives in the 2010 mid-term elections when the dems where trashed at the polls. Left-wing pollsters, obeying the Obama team, kept on giving Obama a slight win, which he got, but there was hanky-panky under the table manouvering to thwart the people's will. They tried every trick in the trade (mobile phones, promises to illegal immigrants, bussing in (unknown) people to the polling booths..... and GOP votes disapperaing on the way. I had experiennced exactly this type of election campaign where I live. It ended up in violence until the true democratic parties got the upper hand by means of peaceful resistance and people realising that at the end of the day jobs and food are the basic thing and not political ploys, lies and cronyism.
This is the start of the extreme left-wing Chavez-style permanent presidency in the USA.
Which remindsme: What did Obama promise to the neo-Soviet dictator Medvedev, when he told him: Wait till after the elections?