This article is informative and a good read, but to sum up the excuses offered...
The media selectively reported Romney's gaffes.
Fact-checkers were biased.
Hurricane Isaac hit the Tampa convention.
Romney was too nice.
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie get the blame.
Obama won by “suppressing the vote.”
Romney wasn’t conservative enough.
Americans are basically ignorant.
Liberals bought the election.
Obama was backed by the 47 percent.
America’s white establishment is now a minority.
Any comments on these excuses?
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Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie get the blame.
- Again with the weather.
Gee, I guess that God didn't realize that while he was busy inflicting hurricane Sandy on the East Coast for their gay friendliness, he was also jinxing Romney's bid for the Presidency..
Obama won by “suppressing the vote.”
Since the 2010 election, Republicans passed new voting restrictions in more than a dozen states aimed at reducing the turnout of Barack Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant”—young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.
“This is not rocket science,” Bill Clinton said last year. “They are trying to make the 2012 electorate look more like the 2010 electorate than the 2008 electorate.” By pushing voter suppression laws, Republicans wanted the 2012 electorate to be older, whiter and more conservative than the young and diverse 2008 electorate.
But the GOP’s suppression strategy failed. Ten major restrictive voting laws were blocked in court and turnout among young, black and Hispanic voters increased as a share of the electorate relative to 2008.
Take a look at Ohio, where Ohio Republicans limited early voting hours as a way to decrease the African-American vote, which made up a majority of early voters in cities like Cleveland and Dayton. Early voting did fall relative to 2008 as a result of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s cutbacks in early voting days and hours, but the overall share of the black electorate increased from 11 percent in 2008 to 15 percent in 2012. More than anything else, that explains why Barack Obama once again carried the state.
I spent the weekend before the election in black churches in Cleveland, and there’s no doubt in my mind that the GOP’s push to curtail the rights of black voters made them even more motivated to cast a ballot. “When they went after big mama’s voting rights, they made all of us mad,” said Reverend Tony Minor, Ohio coordinator of the African American Ministers Leadership Council. According to CBS News: "More African-Americans voted in Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida than in 2008." (source)
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