Mitt Romney is now very close to ...

[heatmaster]

Yeah well 47.47% or 47.54% at least it says, that % of folks didn't want the anointed one & the casual observer can be excused for noticing, that Obama didn't win the popular vote blow-out he had wished for, the first president since Woodrow Wilson to see his support decrease; also Romney did better than Dukakis in 1988, GHWB in 1992, Dole in 1996 (only Kerry in 2004, did marginally better) and McCain in '08; both percentage wise as well as the EV; the anointed one might have been re-elected, but nothing on the blow-out scale he was expecting; that must catch in a few craw's; in terms of EV scoring, Obama only did better than Wilson, Truman, Carter and Dubya...not Mt. Rushmore territory is it? What would be sweet Irony, is if Obama and Dubya are both at 50.73% each...yep those stats are a bitch!

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Sorry but Bush 41 won 426 EV in 1988 and 53%; so the anointed one came up 94 EV short There; he only managed by a hair to beat both Truman, JFK and Carter in % did better than Truman and JFK by 29 EV and 35 EV better than Carter; not lamenting his victory, favorite word "lamenting" you lefties, just reminding you...that's all, just in case you Obamamites lose the run of things and start reading too much into the anointed one's mandate; we are not focusing on his 2008 numbers you dweebs...it's 2012 remember!....Obama won and beat Romney, but Judas Priest!....only by so much and yes we all know the anointed one won...again, but let's focus on his 2012 win and not 2008 shall we...that's like saying Reagan was only going to focus on his dramatic 1980 win...when he had been just re-elected in one of the biggest landslide's in history; so again Obama comes on the lower rung of EV victories, we have Wilson with 435 in 1912; 277 in 1916; FDR, 472 in 1932, 523 in 1936, 449 in 1940, 432 in 1944; Truman 303 in 1948; JFK 303 in 1960; LBJ 486 in 1964; Carter 297 in 1976; Clinton 370 in 1992 and 379 in 1996; Obama 365 in 2008 and 332 in 2012. So what a come down from those 2008 figures.  Basically we are back to the 50/50 Red-Blue state split. But it's fun watching the Dems going into spin over-drive trying to confuse those less educated, with incorrect data and stats. It ain't gonna work, when you got the likes of me to remind you of those stubborn stats....and I will from time to time. Trust me, us Republicans are over this "defeat". But as you like to remind us, Obama's campaign was expecting a narrow victory and not the blow-out they had hoped; well that's exactly what they got!...I mean down to 74,000 vote margin in Florida, compared to 2008; what about Ohio, only 107,000 margin....down from 262,000 in 2008....yeah he won, but it's a Pyrrhic victory at best...just thought you needed to remind you & just in case you do, I can always post similar submissions on the stats....just to bring you Dems crashing back to earth.

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Don't know or care what Mitt Romney's expectations were, I take comfort in the fact, that he basically prevented Obama even coming close to those 2008 levels that Obama wished he had repeated, but didn't...way below Obama's expectations...despite all the bull%$*@ spin he and his lackey's were trying to sell...he got his second term, but not in the way he had hoped or wanted and that's what count's....so it's a questionable what kinda mandate he can claim, the Republicans in the house, led by Boehner and Cantor, couldn't give a rat's %$@ what those folks who supported Obama demand or want...Obama ain't gonna get squat, Boehner knows how to talk the game when the camera's are on, but when they are off, our boys in the GOP leadership will do the old Potomac two-step...passive aggressive routine, and all Obama will end up doing is holding his p$%*@er and that's it...before long he will, be a lame-duck, no immigration reform....a do-nothing president and when 2016 comes around we Republicans can sadly shake our heads in disappointment...and talk about squandered opportunities; but the anointed one, if history is anybody's guide...won't be a bit player in this calamity....it's perfect and it will happen; just have to run out the clock on the Benghazi fiasco, all Obama's fault for not cooperating with the congressional investigation....that get's us to the end of 2013, lame-duck issues have slowed down Obama....a "Do nothing presidency".....work's for me. You Democrats know the playbook....but there's nothing you can do, you know it and the GOP know it....bet Barack wished Nancy Pelosi was speaker 

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Most of Obama's national vote margin, came from his margin on the left-coast...la-la land, San Francisco (hippie-land) etc, not much of a mandate when you think of it you Democratic troglodyte's ...still trying to spin on the re-election stats, eh? nice try baby....still first president in nearly 100 years to do worse in his second term victory....still he's at 50.73% & you are whistling Dixie, if he manages to get within even a point of his 2008 victory....don't think so pal!

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If I have a point, it is this, the facts are, whatever the spin, the U.S. is essentially divided between blue state's & red states, just as it was in 2004, only difference, Obama did slightly better with the EV & and only so much better in the popular vote than Dubya and whatever way you slice the outcome, Obama's margin of victory is confined to those "blue states" Kerry won, he only took Colorado, Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico that Dubya won in 2004; if he had held Indiana, North Carolina and say picked up Arizona and Missouri, then you would I think have a 381-157 split in Obama's favor, now that would have proven that Obama was expanding the map; the Democrats can't expect to depend on the EV map to stay the same or expand in 2016, it won't and if you have a Republican who has a message which is receptive to Hispanic, Women's ears and attracts Independent's and maintains the Red States that McCain won in 2008, and Romney expanded on this cycle, well you could have a repeat of what occurred in 2008, only this time the Republican benefit's, my guess is that Jon Huntsman has the best opportunity to change the electoral map in decisive manner and if so, then we will all know the GOP has learned it's lesson and becomes a more Reaganite inclusive party. Obama knew this fact in 2009, when he tapped Huntsman to be Ambassador to China, Huntsman represented the biggest threat to Obama's undoing and still has that appeal and therefore come 2016 he could very well be the elephant in the room, unfortunately for Biden, Clinton, Cuomo, O'Malley, Warner and Gillibrand don't occupy the presidency, so there's no way that Huntsman can be neutralized as he was in 2009; but of course, not to be accused of trolling, if Huntsman is offered a cabinet post then you know the Democrats have commissioned some internal polls....well, I don't have to draw you a picture what's going to be going through the minds of leading Dems.