2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumObama now has over 64 million popular votes (4-million vote margin over Mitt)
Obama: 64,010,984 50.75%
Mittens: 60,004,493 47.57%
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=19
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)Its interesting that Mitt lost the swing states. And the non-swing states. So much for red America.
demosincebirth
(12,540 posts)NewsCenter28
(1,835 posts)actually is going to finish with just 47%. So delicious.
And yeah, winning the PV by 4 points is a landslide.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)is how much closer Ohio was than the other swing states. Good thing we had all the field offices, unions, and other GOTV efforts there as the Repigs either fought back very hard with their push of the religious right or they flipped votes.
I don't want to think they could actually flip votes but I put nothing past them.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Oh there is a gawd, and he is an ironic gawd!
reflection
(6,286 posts)1.7M more votes in the 12 swing states.
2.3M more votes in the remaining 38 states.
That is a swing state shellacking, my friends.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Must resist the urge to obsess!!