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When You Stab Ron Paul In The Back, Ron Paul Picks Your Pocket, Sleeps With Your Wife, And Absconds With The Flatware
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All of this talk about shifting demographics and not selling the message and failing the GOTV ground game is cockshit. Romney lost not because 1% more Mexicans Latinos Hispanics Brown People voted over 2008, according to a poll with a 3-5% margin of error, but because a group of voters he had counted on gave him the middle finger in the best way that it could. During the primaries, Ron Paul racked up an impressive number of votes/delegates on the way to being kicked out the back door of the GOP candidate Star Search. There were grumblings for the Stormin’ Mormon because the number of delegates Paul had collected allowed him significant leverage in the convention, and since delegates are only bound on the first tally, many “Romney” delegates were free to switch to Paul if they so desired on second, third, and subsequent votes. This scared the ever-loving feces out of the Romney camp, who resorted to varied dirty tricks to suppress Paul’s delegates, diminish Paul’s presence and influence, and again kick him (and his supporters) out the back door. Romney’s camp wanted to present a unified GOP/conservative base, and assumed that the desire to send President Ladies Tee packing would trump any ill feelings the Paul supporters held toward Romney for 1) dirty tricks and 2) being, basically, the liberal governor of a deeply blue liberal state.
This chart that I took from Nate’s Facebook page clearly shows how well that worked out:
Which is to say not at all.
Those votes either stayed home, or went third party to one of several candidates, likely non-libertarian Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who is the first LP party candidate to notch more than 1 million votes in a national presidential election.
Romney got 3 million less votes nationally than McCain did, and even though Obama got 10 million less votes than he did in 2008, it was enough to win by, well, 3 million.
It appears that the emergence of impactful third-party politics has finally arrived, only 12 years later than I originally thought it would.
This all seems plausible enough, I guess, and I could leave it right there, on the table, to see if the wait staff picks it up, but the six of you who still read this blog don’t come here for sober analysis like that, all wrapped up in a bow and sent FedEx 2nd-Day Air for your calm reading pleasure.
No sir, no you don’t.
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