Analyst's note: Here is an inside look at what just happened in this most recent presidential election. A number of Americans are still stunned like me that Gov. Mitt Romney could get out as many Republican voters as did Sen. McCain. I for one didn't’t see that one coming. Considering the man Barack Hussein Obama and his administration, why on earth did Americans stay at home in the face of the most ultra-liberal President America has had?
The analysis below clearly suggest that this election was not really about a surge in non-white voters; it was about a large group of white voters that never showed up. Compared to 2008 numbers, there were about 3 million white voters that chose to stay home. At first many would be tempted to say it was due to conservative evangelicals rejecting Gov. Romney’s Mormonism. But the white voters that stayed home weren't’t from the South, where those conservative evangelicals are in great numbers.
I also find it fascinating that according to Deseret News out of Salt Lake City, Mitt Romney got 2% less of the 'Mormon or LDS Vote' than did George W. Bush. We also learn from the same baseline Pew analysis that religiously unaffiliated voters were however noted to be firmly in Obama's corner in 2012.
[....] the fact is Ohio was never up, Wisconsin was never up, Pennsylvania was never up…the published polls were correct. Nate Silver was correct. But the Republican establishment polls were wrong.
[....] Luntz then analyzed a Republican Main Street Partnership survey where voters were asked which groups they think Republicans are “most interested in helping.” By and large, the respondents seem to believe Republicans only care about “the wealthy” and “big business.”
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“That tells you the communication gulf between what Republicans were saying and what the average American was hearing– hardworking taxpayers and the middle class, half as many people said that as the wealthy and big business– it tells you that the Obama campaign got through the message that the Republicans were out of touch,” Luntz explained. “That the Republicans were defending the groups they didn’t like, and if there was a signal that the messaging wasn’t working, this is it.”
[....] Luntz then commented on another poll in which 65% said balancing the budget should be Washington’s top priority, versus 35% who said preventing tax increases should be the main focus.
