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Voter Turnout Shaping Up to Be Lower Than 2008

Nov. 7, 2012 7:06am Billy Hallowell

WASHINGTON (AP) — A drop in voter turnout in Tuesday’s election didn’t keep President Barack Obama from winning a second term in the White House.

Preliminary figures suggest fewer people voted this year than four years ago, when voters shattered turnout records as they elected Obama to his first term.

In most states, the numbers are shaping up to be even lower than in 2004, said Curtis Gans, the director of American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate. Still, the full picture may not be known for weeks, because much of the counting takes place after Election Day.

“By and large, people didn’t show up,” Gans said.

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In Texas, turnout for the presidential race dropped almost 11 percent from 2008. Vermont and South Carolina saw declines that were almost as large. The drop-off was more than 7 percent in Maryland, where voters approved a ballot measure allowing gay marriage.

With 95 percent of precincts reporting, The Associated Press figures showed more than 117 million people had voted in the White House race, but that number will go up as more votes are counted. In 2008, 131 million people voted, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Experts calculate turnout in different ways based on who they consider eligible voters. A separate, preliminary estimate from George Mason University’s Michael McDonald put the 2012 turnout rate at 60 percent of eligible voters. That figure was expected to be revised as more precincts reported and absentee votes were counted.

The biggest plunge by far, according to the American University analysis, came in Eastern Seaboard states still reeling from the devastation from Superstorm Sandy, which wiped out power for millions and disrupted usual voting routines. Fifteen percent fewer voters cast ballots in New York this year than in 2008. In New Jersey, it was almost 12 percent. The gap in New Jersey could narrow in the coming days because elections officials have given displaced residents in some areas until Friday to cast special email ballots.

Best efforts be darned, making it to the polls in the wake of Sandy may have simply been too much for some affected voters. In Hoboken, N.J., Anthony Morrone said he’s never missed a vote – until now.

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“No time, no time to vote, too much to do,” said Morrone, 76, as he surveyed the exterior of his home: a pile of junked refrigerators, a car destroyed by flooding and a curbside mountain of waterlogged debris.

In other areas not affected by the storm, a host of factors could have contributed to waning voter enthusiasm, Gans said. The 2012 race was one of the nastiest in recent memory, leaving many voters feeling turned off. With Democrats weary from a difficult four years and Republicans splintered by a divisive primary, neither party was particularly enthused about their own candidate. Stricter voting restrictions adopted by many states may also have kept some voters away from the polls.

“Beyond the people with passion, we have a disengaged electorate,” Gans said. “This was a very tight race, there were serious things to be decided.”

Decided they were – by the millions of voters who, in many cases, braved all kinds of inconveniences to make sure their voices were heard.

Some voters in South Carolina’s Richland County waited more than four hours to cast their votes, and leaders from both parties blamed the delays on broken voting machines. Officials in Virginia and New Hampshire reported many voters were still waiting to vote when polls closed in the evening. In major battleground states like Ohio and Florida, lines snaked back and forth as voters waited patiently to cast their ballots.

“I’ve been waiting for four years to cast this vote,” said Robert Dan Perry, 64, as he cast his vote for Romney in Zebulon, N.C.

Both Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made voter turnout a top priority in the waning days of an intensely close race. But for months leading up to Election Day, both candidates were obsessed with that tiny sliver of undecided voters.

It may be that those who were still undecided Tuesday decided just not to show up, said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

“Everyone was talking about how the Democrats are unenthusiastic and the Republicans are fired up,” Kondik said. “It sounds like that was all talk.”

One bright spot in this year’s voting was the number of early and mail-in ballots cast. Before polls opened on Election Day, more than 32 million people had voted, either by mail or in person, in 34 states and the District of Columbia. In a number of states, including Iowa, Maryland and Montana, early voting appeared to far exceed totals from 2008.

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GoodStuff
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:44am
Bull. I’ve never seen lines this long at the polls, this was a record turnout for Republicans.

The only thing that can explain it is massive, nation-wide voter fraud.

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- jmiller_42
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:17am
  Or the fact that you put a crap nominee up for election. Remember the “anti-establishment” picks everyone was hoping for to go against Romney? Maybe you should have thought about background checking this idiot before spouting off anybody but Obama. Trying to win elections by just trying to vote against someone else is a losing proposition.
  
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- randellmd
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:44pm
  thanks for saying it. now i don’t have to.
  
  jmiller is an idiot.
  
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- Reverent
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:00pm
  I think that we as a country better start looking over our shoulders.
  
  There is “Something Rotten in Denmark”"
  
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- Reverent
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:06pm
  I Hope that you are wrong, but I do not think that you are.
  
  CNN’s interviews with independents after the debates; were very telling.
  
  They all said the same thing, The Economy was the number one issue.
  
  Almost everyone of them said that Romney not Obama would do a better job at handling it.
  
  Gallop and Rasmussen both said that Romney was leading among Independent voters on the economy.
  
  Then CBS calls the election for Obama on Monday?
  
  The news agencies even Fox were acting like they were reading a script.
  
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- deanbob
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:38pm
  I had so many questions, including “How to we verify the accuracy of those machines’ counts?”
  
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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:51pm
  I agree. Lines and waits were long. Republicans came out to vote. Something is wrong. Just doesn’t add up. Voting machines tampered with? Something going on. You should have seen the Romney signs in yards around here. Outnumbered o 7-1. Yet our area went democrat. Really? Just not feeling correct.
  
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- foosgoddess
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 11:22am
  Low turnout? BS!! I’m wondering how many dumpsters are full of ballots for Romney and the Republicans??? I heard a guy Beck interviewed this morning who witnessed manipulation at a polling place in West Palm.
  
  WE NEED A MASSIVE SHOWING IN DC TO PROTEST THE SWEARING IN!!!
  
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- braddock66
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:52pm
  totally agree there were lines everywhere in NC nothing like ’08. Fraud is the only explanation
  
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Okieflyover
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:23am
More people voted for Palin than Romney. When Norquest figures that out and acts on it we will have a chance.

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Singsong
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:59am
Everyone I talked to in Northern Illinois reported twice the number of voters in line. I saw that myself. The voter turnout was much higher that ’08. And they say that voter turnout was low? It seems that many other people had the same impression. The left complains of voter suppression? I’ve heard it said that if we lose this one, we’ll never see another free election. Truth is, we didn’t see it this time around. It seems like Johnnie Carson’s law firm, ‘Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe’ did the tabulating.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:08pm
  Yes, and there was 2,500 people at 8/28.
  
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Red Meat
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:53am
I put the loss squarely on the shoulders of low information republican voters. They listen to Beck(perhaps not for much longer) and FNC….Support West etc…No wonder why some people stayed home or voted 3rd party.
FOX should be boycotted.

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- Jack_Reacher
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:03pm
  Red Meat, you’re a pure bred idiot. It is social misfits such as yourself that kept harping against Mitt Romney early on that helped to drag down the party. What are you watching on TV?? MSNBC?
  
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overthecliff
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:47am
If 4 men are killed and the “press” doesn`t cover the story, are they really dead?

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PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:29am
i went i voted on friday so optimistic that the american people had more sense than snot. i voted for romneh and ryan and crossed my fingers. Found out i was preggers again on Sunday after going to the hospital for a tooth infection/dizzyness and such and i was so happy. Now i have four more years of this crap but i know in my heart that God is in control regardless what idiot is in the White House. I just pray it will be quick and relatively painless ;) See ya comrades!!

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galicant wiseword
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:58am
I imagine the comparison of yesterdays turnout with people who vote for some singer on the “X Factor” today will speak volumes about our countrymen (and women). It appears as if most people are content to sit at home on election day while the few, mostly uniformed, determine the fate of our nations children and grandchildren. Want to know the most googled phrase yesterday? It was “WHO is running for president?”. I thought that SNL spoof was ridiculous, turns out it was a frighteningly accurate representation of millions of “Americans”. It’s become obvious over the past 24 hours that all of us commenting on political sites make up a proportionally small percent of the population that even thinks about politics and of that small group only a select few are awake.

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rabblechat
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:51am
Is it just me or does it seem odd that the “official” voter turnout was said to be lower when everything I seen, and heard prior to the polls closing yesterday indicated a higher turn out than in 2008?

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:24am
  Well, what can you do? Lying, cheating, deceit, hate, racism, smug sneering and name calling are what now work in the world. This is what we’re left facing.
  
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nilo
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:22am
Its over, in more ways than one.

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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:49am
  The last four years was the time between 1750 and 1776… there were British governing issues (tax policy, DOJ problems, Supreme Court decisions and appointments), taxation without representation (Obamacare), over regulations (EPA, FEMA, FDA, Housing)…….
  We started the revolution in 2010…just like the Colonists did in 1775…Lexington and Concord…and other areas that history books do not talk about in New England…
  Now we are at the end of 1776….Washington’s army is disbanding…enlistments are up…they have lost every major battle…the men and their officers are depressed…but Washington receives the pamphlet from Paine and reads it to his troops and they surprise attack Trenton on Xmas day and WIN!..
  things still don’t go well…then there is Valley Forge… that is where we are now.. Valley Forge… how many of us will survive this long winter until 2014…how many of us will train like the Continental Army…become that honed fighting force that comes out of its winter hiding in the spring…the election of 2014…
  huddle up my friends….stay warm….train yourself and your family and as many friends that will listen…shelter yourself from the storm that is coming against the Tea Party, 9/12, libertarian minded conservatives….this will be a Perfect Storm…a 1000 year flood…
  BUT WE MUST SURVIVE SO OUR COUNTRY SURVIVES!! TOO ARMS, TOO ARMS!!!
  
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nilo
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:20am
Who said, “not to vote, is to vote”? They voted……………… mostly for Obama!

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Pauln
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:15am
So much for the “evangelical” vote that could change the whole race… they probably didn’t even showed up. The GOP probably thought they had everything “in the bag” and all those who thought they will “show them” by not voting. What a bunch of …..

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- bobsmallcraft
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:20am
  There is also the stringent anti-Romney people who refused to vote for him and all those who wasted their vote on third, fourth and fifth party candidates. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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Bad Kitty
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:58am
There are recounts for Florida and Ohio, but it still wouldn”t change anything…

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RIGS
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:52am
BLAH BLAH was is the point the MARXIST WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- Reverent
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:25pm
  You have used the “M” word.
  Yes he and all of his Czars and those in his party are Marxists not Liberals.
  
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bonesiii
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:33am
WHAT? Low turnout? I saw the highest turnout I’ve ever seen at my precinct. Many others have said the same — by far.

I suspect cheating… Man, it looks really likely. This doesn’t track.

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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:40am
  How many discarded ballots? The integrity of the electronic voting system can never be proven. I believe that’s how we lost Kalipornia.
  
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- JosephMichael
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:42am
  You are correct.
  
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- raderby
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:42am
  yeah. It does not compute. When one suspects something – then you must provide a way to prove it. That is the problem here… too much under cover in the voting process….. and then – could there be that many people in the USA that are this stupid?
  
  THAT is the most scary of all possible answers to this.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:07am
  BONESIII, I hear you on that. We had one of the highest voter turn outs in state history and they voted overwhelmingly against 0bama.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:07am
  Stuck_in_CA
  How many discarded ballots? The integrity of the electronic voting system can never be proven.
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  What do you mean “The integrity of the electronic voting system can never be proven”?
  
  When it was all paper ballots the integrity of the voting system could not be proven!
  
  More people voted in Madison, Wisconsin than there were eligible voters or adults.
  
  Any precinct where a Democrat and a Republican cannot watch other like hawks is suspect.
  
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- Hammerdown
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:10am
  Ron Paul supporters have said all along they were not going to vote. Wonder what they will have to say in four more years, that is, if the country as we know it is still here.
  
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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:22am
  For the first time this year I worked the polls – two locations representing 6 districts. People were packed in especially working people first thing in the morning. Both locations suburban. The seasoned poll workers told me they never saw so many people. The one smaller location was apparently known to be an easy target for “students”, mostly black kids never alone, but in groups of 2 or more. They arrived mid-afternoon. No photo ID, no nothing but expecting to cast provisional ballots. The smallest precinct had 300 votes, 30 of which were provisional. The stories they had were bull. I had the impression they had been going from location to location voting repeatedly (probably for the past month). I saw people come in to vote and discover that someone else had already cast absentee ballots in their name. One was an entire family. This election rigged and it was rigged heavily in battleground states. Useful idiots brought it in close, but from what I saw I know that fraud is what pushed them over the top for the win. With 1% this way or that? Fraud took the win.
  
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- DocNOLA
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:55am
  @Frederick_Douglas: I agree. And let’s not forget all the members of the military whose ballots were “lost in a plane crash” or mailed to them late. Talk about “voter suppression”!!
  
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- AlwaysAmazed
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:10am
  @BONES et al
  If we conservatives are ever to take back control of ‘their’ government and ‘their’ planes, the first target of attack must be the complicit media – print, broadcast, and on-line.
  
  They do not support the United States and we should not support them (and we all know who they are). Stop buying their tainted product – ALL of it!
  
  Spread the word, and then continue to spread the word to all conservatives to do the same. This line of attack costs us not one lousy dollar. It costs THEM dollars. When the presses slow down their employees will be let go. That will be one of the very last stories they refuse to print or air! Let’s spiral them down until we put them completely out of business. We have the technology – just keep your wallets and purses closed! It really won’t take that long…
  
  But then again, if you so-called ‘conservatives’ couldn’t manage to get off your dead azzes to go vote your conservatism yesterday, why should anyone think you would do anything to better America other than spout off.
  
  PS When I say “you so-called conservatives,” I don’t mean specifically any of you – only those who didn’t vote.
  
  After we take out the complicit media, it is time for REAL vote reform. But that is another campaign…
  
  Tactics first! Action soon thereafter!
  
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- gyianis
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:59am
  i do not suspect fraud is becoming like a common sence that there was fraud. if anybody could register with the honor system stating that they are citizen as long they have a valid address and a valid social and then vote with out id with may be a bill for proof and filling a provisionan ballot again with honor system. as long it is same as the registration file then is ok. i quarantee u probaply (especially) latinos somalians or ather nationals voted in 100,s of thousants if not millions. my wife has a green card and a social and she cold register in ny just with that and if she voted she would be allowd and countedbfor president with nobody to care to check. even the foreing observers could not believe our system. in pa where most of the problems in polls what happened nothing
  
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- cosmic dogma
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:59pm
  Agreed. Voter turnout was higher than 08. Something very wrong.
  
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hypnos
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:29am
More people asleep than awake its as simple as that.

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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:35am
  comatose
  
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:29am
How could so many Americans display such a wanton disregard for the four men who Obama killed in Benghazi with the order to stand down?

How could a military not respond in order to save their own?

Now do you understand how the military will be used to take-over this country?

“Remember Benghazi!”

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- Warriorswife
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:39pm
  The US military is not going to be used to take over. My husband has been serving in the Air National Guard and the Air Force for 32 years. The BRAC commission is ensuring that our military is being gutted. My husband had 6 enlisted under him in his section last year. this year he is doing the jobs of all of those servicemen plus his own job. They were all non-retained! His direct supervisor was just medically retired. I asked him how he can do all of that work and his own too? He said “I can’t, I’m so far behind, I can’t catch up.” His whole base is short-handed!! No It’s not going to be our boys taking over. look to the UN peacekeepers for that. The powers that be know that foreigners will have to do that job.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:26am
i cant imagine an economy and election more favorable to the republicans….But yet they still lost to a communist. Better get some new ideas to attract young voters or you are headed for the dust heap – literally

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:42am
  SOY, 0bama won with 48% of the vote. Where did the rest of the voters go? So, you get what you wanted, if not Gary Johnson, you got your beloved 0bama. Just see how far the Libertarians go during the next election.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:43am
  You obviously do not know the meaning of the word literally. Where would you find an actual dust heap?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:55am
  Morning R.J.
  Soy, considering the country is now headed to the “dust heap”, I can’t get too upset about the Republican party tagging along.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:56am
  What are you saying about young voters? You “cant imagine an economy and election more favorable to the republicans….But yet they still lost to a communist.”, and the best you can do is think that Repubs should tune in with the young voter?!? By the way, my local polling place was swamped with voters. Low voter turnout tells me there was high voter mail-ins
  
  That makes about as much sense as the election results. Here’s what you should consider: “an economy and election more favorable to the republicans….But yet they still lost to a communist.”
  
  How does that compute into an Obammy win, without fraud? Here’s another – 48% of the popular vote, yet 303 electoral votes. How does that compute?
  
  Failure in domestic economy, failure in foreign policy, failure militarily, failure with trustworthiness – and yet he wins – how does that compute?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:14am
  GONZO, Good morning, and please simply take that as a suggestion from me. Otherwise, we both know that it is not a good morning.
  That being said. I can’t and will not blame it entirely on the Libertarians for siphoning off some of the vote. There is after all the Green Party which must have gotten at least a dozen or so votes, then Al Gore’s name was out there too as I heard this morning on the radio. He may have gotten a few votes too.
  There is also the fact that many Libertarians did know that their candidate would really go nowhere and at least tried to vote against 0bama.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:21am
  soybomb315_II
  
  or you are headed for the dust heap – literally
  ***
  And who are you sensei?
  
  Borders, Language, Culture are bad ideals?
  
  Show me a political party that wins elections outside the U.S.A. that wins elections on open borders?
  
  In my immediate family there are 2 generations of non native English speakers. We literally make a living teaching various languages. I consider bilingual ability or even being multilingual as being good. yet for governing purposes we need 1 language. Maybe you can print ballots & regulations in 300 languages. Why not? You, Bernanke & your God Obama can print money. The costs of printing regulations & ballots in is chump change when you can print money & borrow 40% of each year’s budget.
  
  You can’t have divergent cultures coexisting. You can have a turn the other cheek culture & a culture of dhimmi coexisting for any length of time. It will be hard to have a gay culture & a culture of single women producing babies on the government dole coexisting with the mainstream culture. Can’t happen. There will be turmoil until one culture wins out. there will be turmoil if the wrong culture wins because it has bad ways.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:38am
  @RJ
  Obama actually won >50% of the vote. All the Gary Johnson votes going to Mitt Romney would not have changed a thing. Stop making excuses
  
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blanco5
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:25am
All we have left is the 10th amendment. I hope states use it.

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beckistheking
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:24am
I can’t wait to find out if the born again voters stayed home or not.

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- 1unwashed
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:32am
  I know many born-again christians who stayed at home. And can the repubs win the youth by promising them more stuff than the other guy. Entitlement is a mindset of the younger generation and that generation’s age probably starts at 45 down. And the people who stay at home, are cowards.
  
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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:30am
  Born again Christians with their “God is in charge and will take care of things” are useful idiots and share greater responsibility than the godless hateful entitlement class youth. They can see what is wrong and stay home. I have zero respect for cowards. Cowards have destroyed this country. We will not have another four years like the last. It will go down hill much faster and in a far more irrecoverable nose dive. Google up some pics of Cuba. You got kids? Thats where this place will be 30 years from now.
  
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Hoosieratarian
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:21am
So how much do the republicans wish they would have had the Paulite support this morning?

Too bad you couldn’t find room in your tent for liberty. Now we all suffer.

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:49am
  Aw, did you little boyfriend not get nominated just because he didn’t win any primaries? That’s just so mean of them bad old Republicans to not give him a Presidential nomination just for participation.
  
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golfer99
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:20am
I’m officially done. We are outnumbered. I’m in Maine so my vote is cancelled out 10 times over. As God is my witness..I shall never humiliate myself again by voting.

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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:34am
  Bless you for trying. I’m in Ohio and can’t believe we suck this bad. Unfortunately the positive turn around by Gov. Kasich probably kept many of us from feeling the economic pain that’s on the horizon.
  
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- bobbiejean
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:07pm
  @Golfer99 Honey, you should try living in CA. You think you’re depressed? Live in a state
  that leans so far left, there is danger of tipping into the Pacific Ocean. But hope springs eternal,
  etc. Voting matters. Even when your candidate doesn’t stand a snowballs chance in H—. It’s
  the DOING that counts—as far as the voter goes. Of course, if one has a good candidate—
  
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loriann12
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:17am
There is no way voter turnout was lower in Texas. There is no way the conservatives didn’t get out and vote. We told everyone who wanted to vote for someone besides Romney that it would cause Obama to win. Hope you’re all happy. Yesterday was the day America died. I would not be surprised if the stock market crashes as soon as it opens this morning.

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- chingachgook
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:42am
  The Country died with Roe Wade decision. It is the justification of murder. When some college women have as many as six abortions while attending college we have lost respect for life. obama care will bring us down. Euthanasia and worse will be fostered upon us. It will come through death panels. Children and grand children will see their parents and grand parents die for lack of care of the obama care system. Many still do not understand where obama comes from and what he is. We have changed from a christian nation to a secular pagan state.
  
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Ivehadenoughtofthisgovenmentcrap
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:17am
Why ??? Has everyone just given up ? I don’t get it. Evil will now be more rampit than ever…..think about it……Lord God save us all.

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- golfer99
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:21am
  Brother – We are far outnumbered…get that through your head. Sad but true. Best!
  
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- StormRider
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:34am
  Just let it go, we did our best. People want phones and free crap instead of jobs. Let them eat the sweet
  poison they desire. And yes God help us all, he gave them what they wanted, now we shall see how much the price tag for stupidity is.
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:39am
  i will never give up fighting for our freedom, these non voting people can not bitch,they can not hope for help from me,these commie loving,everything is free liberal idiots can kiss my ass,they can suffer the consequences of their vote,we will all be in the hell hole with a steep ladder to climb,they can live it up until their free tit dry up then they can suffer for not preparing and for loving freedom, god bless those who voted for freedom and America,now we must start over and dig in,please never give up our country depends on it, find like minded people,support each other,pay food,cloths and ammo,then hang on it is going to be a rough ride,so please remember “” GOD,FAMILY & COUNTRY “‘. the rest can love,who ever &whatever but for me and my family &friends,we serve “GOD,FAMILY & COUNTRY “”
  
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I SPY
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:13am
Both parties just spent over two billion dollars and America got nothing for it.

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- deanbob
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Seeing all the ads in Texas was bad enough. I am thankful it is not a swing state. Then again. may more reading would be good.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:12am
We have been scammed ! The communists stole the election by massive fraud from within the system. The major voter fraud is not from people voting 2 times or more, or illegals voting nor by felons voting, but from within the system by corrupt officials.

Who vets the people who record and count the votes?

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- blanco5
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:21am
  Voter fraud won.
  
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- Dan
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:22am
  It certainly makes you wonder…
  
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- GeoInSD
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:36am
  It was either voter fraud or the nation has truly transformed and I no longer recognize it. Bush 41 was not re-elected for far fewer sins than Obama.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:45am
  No, we didn’t have to do that because real Americans like President Obama, and we trust him.
  
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:47am
  @agry-k, the electoral college stole the election,this needs to be changed what i don’t get is why they continue to vote for a commie lover,who hates America and her values, and love getting screwed by this government we must change the electoral college and we must get more people out to vote every vote counts and to those who say they have given up,the fight is far from over it just got harder but it is far from over,i will never obey anything other than the constitution no matter how bad it gets,i am prepared for a long fight,i pray my fellow blazers are to,”" god,family,country,food & ammo “”.
- Redwing1
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:14am
  Take a look a your supervisor of elections. Who is it? How much money spent getting them elected? This is where the battle for America is being fought.
  
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