Election 2012: Numbers Don’t Lie, Voters Don’t Vote

Well, that was thoroughly disappointing now, wasn’t it?

In the interest of full disclosure I declare that I was fully comMITTed and that I voted for Mitt Romney by post weeks ago.

But after the first few hours of stunned silence while staring at my laptop I thought I’d share some interesting facts in case you were thinking that last night Barack H. Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro) had achieved anything near his previous stellar performance that saw him raised from an inexperienced Senator to ’Leader of the Free World’ in just a few years.

Obama received approximately 69,456,897 votes in the 2008 presidential election (52.92%). This translated into 365 of 538 electoral votes, (67.8%, 270 needed to win). (Source)

And while these figures may still change slightly as the final votes are counted, he received just 59,565,617 votes in 2012—a reduction of around 10 million votes for the Democrat Party.

On the other hand, John McCain received approximately 59,934,814 votes in the 2008 for presidential election, (45.66%). This translated into 173 of 538 electoral votes (32.2%, 270 needed to win). (Source)

Mitt Romney has received nearly 57,000,000 votes in 2012—a 3 million vote reduction for the Republican Party.

Combining the two candidates’ vote reductions and ignoring the small number of votes cast for the third, fourth and fifth parties and assuming no newly registered voters since 2008 (unlikely), it’s safe to say that 13 million FEWER Americans voted in 2012 compared to 2008.

As of this writing there is a 2.6 million vote spread between the candidates, which means that if the Republicans who voted in 2008 had simply voted in 2012 the end result could have been dramatically different for the Romney campaign.

The fact that 10 million fewer Democrats voted for Barry Soetoro speaks for itself.

http://www.wirenews.co/op-ed/usa/4730/election-2012-numbers-don-t-lie-voters-don-t-vote