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To: tejek who wrote (679534)	10/17/2012 10:54:37 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587522

>> Thank God for the EC. My, how you've changed your tune. But don't think it is going to save your sorry asses this year. Right now, Obama has to figure a way to hang on to OH, PA, WI, AND MI or he's finished. Romney only has to take one or two away. And Obama is broke.

To: tejek who wrote (679534)	10/18/2012 11:04:49 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1587522

Obama won in 2008 with 69.5 milllion votes. That was big. The previous record vote total for one candidate was 62 million for Bush in 2004. Re Obama's 69.5 million votes - that vote total was almost 10 million more than McCain got and more than 10 million more than Kerry got in 2004. Specifically, McCain got only 59.9 million votes. Less than Bush four years earlier. Hey, if America is so racist, where were the racists in 2008? The racist whites should have turned out to push McCain's (the not black guy running) vote up over Bush's vote. Didn't happen. McCain actually got FEWER votes than Bush in '04. Kerry in 2004 only got 59 million votes. Why did Obama do so much better (+ 10.5 M) than Kerry? It wasn't just bigger black turnout. The number of blacks that voted was up only 2.1 million. pewresearch.org A majority of Obama's 10 million extra votes were cast by whites. I think a lot were wanting to cast an historic vote, electing the first black President. One thing about historic firsts - they only come once. If Obama could hold onto all of his 2008 voters and get them to turn out, he'd be virtually unbeatable. If Obama loses and I'm confidant he will, it will be because a big chunk of his 69.5 million voters from 2008 desert him, either switching sides or staying home. And that will happen because his record is a disappointing one. Blaming his problems on the guy who was President four years ago is a weak excuse and everyone knows it. He came into office without a serious plan to fix the economy, the 2009 porkulus program was his big economic effort, and he has no plan to fix the economy going forward. He won't lose because of racism ... if there were some big racist vote out there it would have showed up four years ago.