Obama got 9 million less votes in 2012 vs 2008. The republicans just didnt show up at the poll. Most of these are libertarians and far right who pretty much abstained from supporting Mitt. The bickering right lost another election, and the above responses reflect the issue.
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You have a good point.. which goes to my point... Maybe if we actually put up a conservative, we would have beat Obama. But alas, we didn't. The establishment fucked us again with another progressive