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Actually, 18-29 year old whites went for Romney by 7. While this is a good sign in and of itself, it really makes why the Republicans lost 18-29 year olds overall by 21 a bigger problem.
The GOP's problem with young voters, more than stances on social issues which could be changed (or that young voters care less about as they get older) or more than young voters not being as wealthy as older voters, is that they are disproportionately minority.
You do realize your party has different factions, don't you? Regardless, you conveniently changed the subject because you didn't want to discuss what I was discussing.
I asked if the 60 million people who voted for Romney are all racist, because that's what you have implied. I also asked if a majority of some of the groups who voted for Romney, such as 18-29 year old whites, whites in California, and whites in the Northeast, are racist.
What the hell are you on?
My votes have always been casted towards conservatives , im in the so called Moderates category.
Just this time, i went with President Obama and i may do for some time. Thanks to the bigots within the gop, i realized being a social liberal aint so bad, cant be any worse than being a fiscal conservative like me.
Since i am a Minority, i found refuge with the Dems. I can be who i want to be and they'll accept me regardless. gops would ridicule me and the likes of meghan mccain.
I know you will flame me for linking to Fox, but it's the only place I could find it with it broken down by age and race combined. It's the same exit poll that's done for most of the media, it's not a Fox News specific exit poll.
Actually, 18-29 year old whites went for Romney by 7. While this is a good sign in and of itself, it really makes why the Republicans lost 18-29 year olds overall by 21 a bigger problem.
The GOP's problem with young voters, more than stances on social issues which could be changed (or that young voters care less about as they get older) or more than young voters not being as wealthy as older voters, is that they are disproportionately minority.
It isn't really good news, that 18-29 group underperformed for you against every other age group, by 10%. Your youth isn't following you. And apparently your angry white youth was less likely to vote.
Mittens did do well in one metric, he got 97% of the angry vote. So much for liberal being the anger ones.
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And Bush did better in his second election -- while Obama did much worse. Obama lost millions of votes from 2008 to 2012.
Take ye small, illusory comfort where ye may. Winning is winning. Huge margins in 2008, very nice comfortable margins in 2012 - and that with a very slow economy.
I call that a BIG WIN. And, Obama legitimately won BOTH elections.
Sadly, same CANNOT be said for Bush. In 2000, Bush got 500,000 FEWER VOTES than Al Gore, and he was ultimately SELECTED by the Supreme Court, so anything would look better in 2004 - in which Bush stole Ohio, btw - election fraud/vote flipping. Pitiful and pathetic you'd even bring up that awful debacle. Thanks be to Bush, US now has a bankrupted Treasury, run unfunded wars. given unfunded tax breaks, suffered a major financial collapse resulting in thousands of closed businesses, millions unemployed - many never to work again, huge drain on our social services networks, thousands homeless, millions on food stamps.
Yes, indeedy, you can be VERY proud of Bush. We need another one just like him and Cheney.
And Bush did better in his second election -- while Obama did much worse. Obama lost millions of votes from 2008 to 2012.
Okay, I'm taking notes here!
Let me get this straight:
*Obama won re-election by a larger margin than Bush (3.0% to 2.4%)
*Obama got more Electoral College votes than Bush (a lot more: 332 to 286)
Take ye small, illusory comfort where ye may. Winning is winning. Huge margins in 2008, very nice comfortable margins in 2012 - and that with a very slow economy.
But wait - I thought the economy was wonderfully improving. If it is, then shouldn't Obama have won in a landslide and wasn't he unbeatable? Or should have been an easy win for Republicans and that we couldn't win is a sign we're doomed as a party? You can't have it both ways...
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I call that a BIG WIN. And, Obama legitimately won BOTH elections.
Sadly, same CANNOT be said for Bush. In 2000, Bush got 500,000 FEWER VOTES than Al Gore, and he was ultimately SELECTED by the Supreme Court, so anything would look better in 2004 - in which Bush stole Ohio, btw - election fraud/vote flipping. Pitiful and pathetic you'd even bring up that awful debacle.
2000 - we have something called the electoral college. Sorry that you don't like it. If Obama had won in the electoral college and Romney had won the popular vote this election, something tells me you wouldn't have minded. As far as SCOTUS stopping the recount in Florida, how long were they supposed to allow recounts to continue for?
2004 - Why didn't Kerry contest the results? There was no proof of fraud. Bush won the state by 136,000 votes. And, even if Kerry had won it, we would have had a huge difference between the popular vote and electoral college result, something you have suggested you wouldn't like (since Bush won nationally by 2.4%). I should point out that Bush won Ohio by a larger margin than Obama won it by this year (and Ohio was supposed to be Obama's "firewall" state).
Seriously, with this 2004 Ohio BS you all sound like the unskewed polls nuts, the birthers, etc. It's just another conspiracy theory.
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Thanks be to Bush, US now has a bankrupted Treasury, run unfunded wars. given unfunded tax breaks, suffered a major financial collapse resulting in thousands of closed businesses, millions unemployed - many never to work again, huge drain on our social services networks, thousands homeless, millions on food stamps.
Yes, indeedy, you can be VERY proud of Bush. We need another one just like him and Cheney.
And everything that happened/is happening was all Bush's fault? Got it...
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Let me get this straight:
*Obama won re-election by a larger margin than Bush (3.0% to 2.4%)
*Obama got more Electoral College votes than Bush (a lot more: 332 to 286)
And all this is what?
Bad news for Obama!
Terrible news for Democrats!
Let's see here....A 3.0% margin to a 2.4% margin...that's not exactly a big difference.
Malamute's point was that Obama lost a significant amount of support between 2012 and 2008. Bush gained a significant amount of support between 2000 and 2004. Also keep in mind that the 2004 election was much higher turnout than 2000, unlike 2012 when compared to 2008. Bush gained millions and millions of votes (10 million or so I believe) between his two elections. Obama lost millions and millions of votes between his two elections.
Let's see here....A 3.0% margin to a 2.4% margin...that's not exactly a big difference.
Malamute's point was that Obama lost a significant amount of support between 2012 and 2008. Bush gained a significant amount of support between 2000 and 2004. Also keep in mind that the 2004 election was much higher turnout than 2000, unlike 2012 when compared to 2008. Bush gained millions and millions of votes (10 million or so I believe) between his two elections. Obama lost millions and millions of votes between his two elections.
Four more years.
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