Obama Wins by Going Negative and Turning Out Base

[mikesilvia]

Lukewarm. That's the feeling I get from the election numbers.Turnout was apparently down, at least as a percentage of eligible voters. The president was re-elected by a reduced margin. The challenger didn't inspire the turnout surge he needed.Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama didn't. He won 53 percent to 46 percent in 2008. His numbers as I write are 50 percent to 48 percent over Mitt Romney. That could go up to 51 percent to 48 percent when California finishes its count, which took five weeks in...

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[Wickabee]

The Romney campaign was as negative as Obama's. Why can't the Republicans just admit that archaic social policy, turning Mitt into a generic candidate instead of letting him run as himself, incredibly vague "plans" for the economy and immigration and comment after comment about rape lost them the election. Obama didn't win, the Republican party lost.

[JustAlex]

You know what I'm going to do from now on.....I'm going to respond to these articles directly, just to show how laughable they really are:


"Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama didn't."

^If that makes the GOP feel better, please continue with these games.



"Obama owes most of his electoral vote majority of 332 to negative campaigning."

^Yup, and Romney ran a very positive campaign, right GOP?




"His strategists barraged the target states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia with attack ads against Romney for months."

^Basically admitting that the Obama strategists actually know what they're doing....nice.



"Examination of county election results suggests that the Obama organization did an excellent job of increasing black voter turnout in the central cities and Southern rural areas in the target states.It also did a great job of turning out Hispanics in metro Denver and Las Vegas, and non-Cuban Hispanics in Miami-Dade County and Osceola and Orange Counties around Disney World in Florida."

^Whereas you guys tried DESPERATELY to suppress those voters. DONE!



"Blacks are unlikely to record larger margins for Democrats ever again."

^LOL WOW! Based on what reasoning?!?!?




"So Obama owes most of his victory margin to negative personal campaigning, while Republicans held the House despite -- or because of -- their opposition to big-government policies."

^They still don't get it.....it's too hilarious at this point, it really is.




*My responses in bold.