Election Numbers Can Deceive
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The most incorrect reason advanced for the president’s re-election and a modest loss of GOP seats in the Senate and House was that Republicans need to undergo major changes in their basic platforms.
A map of the country in which the counties are colored red or blue indicating which party won the majority of voters indicate that the GOP won a majority of close to 80 percent of the counties, if you exclude the states from Maryland northward along the East Coast as well as the three West Coast states.
Also overlooked in the election results is the fact that the GOP gained control of the largest number of state legislatures since 1928.
A similar surge occurred in GOP governors.
It seems to me that there are three major reasons for the president’s re-election.
He received 95 percent of the “black” vote in spite of the fact that many of them are opposed to his stance on moral issues.
He received a very large percent of the “Latino” vote, no doubt helped by his Dream Act by executive order rather than legislation.
Thirdly and sadly, many Americans who profess themselves as Christians accept the unbiblical precepts included in the Democrat party platform at their convention of abortion on demand, same sex marriage, and leaving God out.
Although the final voter count has not yet been completed, the estimate is that the president received between 3 and 5 million fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008.
Therefore, the president’s wide margins in these three voter categories probably made him the winner.
The voter count for Mitt Romney will be better than the low numbers put up by McCain in 2012, but not by much.
Many conservative voters just didn’t vote. They want a Reagan conservative with political prowess.
Gene Jacobs
Pinehurst
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OldPilot 5 months, 1 week ago
Yes, and? Mr. Jacobs needs to get over it, get a life and move on.
Easygoing 5 months, 1 week ago
It is well known that the first stage in grief is shock and denial. Maybe when Mr. Jacobs and others move on to later stages they will be able to work with all of us to make a better country. Until then I guess we will have to endure their rage and hope that someday they will see that we are all in this together and these stages are counter productive.
packwilleat 5 months, 1 week ago
The first stage of tyranny is a solid base of devoted lemmings.
kzowens 5 months, 1 week ago
I bought a lottery ticket on Election Day and hit two numbers. If I had matched the other numbers, I would have won. My wife didn’t buy a ticket because she didn’t like Romney, and she didn’t win either.
RmeMP 5 months, 1 week ago
simple, basic math...
there are now more "takers" than "givers" - period, that's it. there are more people who want the government to take care of them, than take care of themselves; that's why he won.
-the end
kzowens 5 months, 1 week ago
It was the top of the 9th. Bases loaded. Two outs. Designated hitter at bat. Home team leading 6-4. Hitter strikes out. Losing team walks off the field and says, “Wait’l next year.” They don’t cry (unless they are Little Leaguers) and whine about why they should have won because they are good sports.
pgericson 5 months, 1 week ago
@RmeMP If you pay taxes on interest earnings at your regular rate, and people like Gov Rommney pay 15% on their earnings on dividends, does that make them givers or takers... just pointing out that the tax laws on the books provide substantial 'gifts' to those who earn from investing. As President Reagan stated that it’s “crazy” that tax loopholes would allow a millionaire to pay lower taxes than a bus driver". He understood that your givers were only returning a portion what they had 'taken'.
Toda 5 months, 1 week ago
pgericson ~ exactly ... think in terms of Berkshire Hathaway: Warren Buffet and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. Just another 15% from those two gentlemen, could reduce the budget by millions. Add Wall Street executives, and wallah, the nation is on its way to recovery.
Toda 5 months, 1 week ago
With all due respect to Mr. Gene Jacobs, he fails to mention the 47% who were left out of Romneys' plan for recovery except to cut - cut - cut. One can't help but wonder how many Republicans who work for a living voted for POTUS'O?
dustyrhoades 5 months, 1 week ago
Well, if we can't have a sane GOP, at least we can have one that keeps losing.
The_AnonymusProfit 5 months, 1 week ago
This article is wrong, and so is Toda, why are they both wrong? because they cant see past partisanship and so they say things that make no sense at all except to other partisans.
Toda some basic tax information for you. If we taxed at 100% every citizen, every corporation, every buisness is the ENTIRE US, we would still run a deficit based on current budget estimates.
At the letter writer, until the GOP can get its evangelical christian foot out of its mouth it wont win another presidential election.
Yukonjohn 5 months, 1 week ago
Well said TAP. You are spot on. The part that will be somewhat comical, albeit sad, that the poor are going to have significantly less disposable income, as will the rich. But the rich are still going to be rich. They are still going to come out on top, they always do, they know how to make lots of money. What will be their plan then? I think it will be to outright steal the rich's money through force. They are rising up in more and more numbers now. Like RmeMP said earlier, it is simple math, there are more takers than there are givers.
njc17 5 months, 1 week ago
TODA: First off, all of the millionairs in the country, Billionaires in fact, tax 'em all at 75% will get NOWHERE to taming the deficit or touching the debt. Now Mr Jacobs ; please understand this election will get rehashed over and over again, and the result will never change. Obama won, doesn't matter how, senate democrats won, doesn't matter how, and house republicans won, doesn't matter how. This is what America has to work with. American politics will be at loggerheads until Obama exercises his personal bypass congress ethics he used before. The debt ceiling will rise these next four years, the debt will grow even larger, spending will increase, the military will be downsized, the income tax structure will be made even more complex [if that's at possoble] and the seniors in this country will be warehoused with Social Security being raided and medicare being slowly eroded. [these things are happening now--social security IS being raided, and medicare IS being changed, seniors are being forced to obamacare at greater cost, and less options]. In short Obama won and America lost. Live with it. in four years America you grew up with, will be forever changed. and not for the good.
dustyrhoades 5 months, 1 week ago
RmeMp, Ann Coulter agrees with you...she called Latinos (the fastest growing demographics in the country) a "lazy underclass."
Yeah, that's the way to electoral victory. Keep diggin' that hole, wingnuts. I'll be here tossing the dirt on your heads.
Yukonjohn 5 months, 1 week ago
DR, on this we agree. Ann Coulter is a wingnut, and a nasty one at that. As has been my very limited experience with latinos, they are a pretty damn hard working people. Ask any farmer in NC about it. That is why they are bringing them by the bucket loads to work.
The_AnonymusProfit 5 months, 1 week ago
To be politically correct, latinos are the liberal portion. Hispanics are conservative, and they take great offense if u confuse them
Yukonjohn 5 months, 1 week ago
I stand corrected. I have so very little experience dealing with latinos/hispanics except what l have seen in NC and out west on big fires. We use contract crews fighting those fires these days, and in many cases they are hispanic. Thanks TAP, learned something today.
dustyrhoades 5 months, 1 week ago
As has been my very limited experience with latinos, they are a pretty damn hard working people.
Comedian Tim Wilson did a great ironic bit about how "your illegal Mexican is a great American. You may have to go pick him up for work, but he'll be there in the driveway when you show up."
fugitiveguy 5 months, 1 week ago
I like Ann Coulter, no one is better at pointing out liberal hypocrisy.
dustyrhoades 5 months, 1 week ago
I like Ann Coulter
Of course you do.
njc17 5 months, 1 week ago
Dusty, do you have ANYTHING of value to say or are you just the hitman? I have never seen anything constructive from you except attack, and attack anything conservative? According to you, conservatives are not allowed to have anything of pertinency opined on this forum without you bashing it or ridiculing it Yet you do not offer anything constructive as a rejoiner.
Just wondering.
Middleman522 5 months, 1 week ago
njc you have just nailed the Dust. Typical loudlib with talking points in memory. Nothing else!
Toda 5 months, 1 week ago
TAP ~ your accounting is correct to a point. 800 billion in untapped tax revenue that the 2% avoid paying wouldn't offset the entire debt. Perhaps Congress could start with the pork, and work down from there would be a good start.
Here is a Pros and Con discussion from Balanced Politics .org you may find interesting.
Toda 5 months, 1 week ago
njc17 => you called me out as well ... so where's your information other than your biased opinion. Can you not research any facts before ranting like TAP? Show me the proof I'm wrong...!