Take Away The Right Wing 3rd Party Votes and Romney Might Have Won

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Tough way to lose, but third party candidates have a right to run for president.

 

[barfo]

Tough way to lose, but third party candidates have a right to run for president.

Where might Mitt have won but for 3rd party candidates?

barfo

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Where might Mitt have won but for 3rd party candidates?

barfo

Looks like Florida would be very very close if it weren't for Johnson... but we Democrats yelled at the Green candidate in 2000 for playing spoiler too... it happens.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Get a better candidate than Mitt No Personality Romney and the Republicans would have won easily.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Take libertarian votes and add them to Romney and at the end of the election it may be the difference in Florida and Ohio.

 

[julius]

I think there is some truth to it, although not to the degree that some think.

I think a bigger reason why he (Romney) lost was due to being a poor candidate.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think there is some truth to it, although not to the degree that some think.

I think a bigger reason why he (Romney) lost was due to being a poor candidate.

Well, yeah, that too.

 

[maxiep]

I look at the way this country has voted and I now know that Romney never stood a chance of winning. This country has changed. We're less free than we were this morning.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

In the end, I don't think any state went to Obama due to third party voting. And if one or two may have, the outcome would have been the same.

 

[Natebishop3]

I hate when they blame third party voters. The people who choose to vote third party are doing so because they are fed up with the two party system. They chose not to vote for Romney or Obama because they thought those two candidates were terrible. I know that when I vote third party, I am doing so to send a message that I am one of the millions of Americans who are disenfranchised with the system and want to see a change.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I hate when they blame third party voters. The people who choose to vote third party are doing so because they are fed up with the two party system. They chose not to vote for Romney or Obama because they thought those two candidates were terrible. I know that when I vote third party, I am doing so to send a message that I am one of the millions of Americans who are disenfranchised with the system and want to see a change.

That's a fair point. But I think if there were only two choices, those people would have voted anyway.

 

[barfo]

I look at the way this country has voted and I now know that Romney never stood a chance of winning. This country has changed. We're less free than we were this morning.

No, you are the same amount of free as you were this morning. What you've got less of now is delusion. Welcome back to reality-land.

barfo

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I look at the way this country has voted and I now know that Romney never stood a chance of winning. This country has changed. We're less free than we were this morning.

A true statement.

 

[44Thrilla]

who's to say Libertarians would all vote for Romney? They certainly don't agree with him on any social issues. That stuff actually matters to some people.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I look at the way this country has voted and I now know that Romney never stood a chance of winning. This country has changed. We're less free than we were this morning.

You certainly drank the kool-aid.

Give me a fucking break.

 

[mobes23]

So, in addition to blaming Bush, Obama, and the liberal leaning media for the economy and whatever else ails, let's add Denny to the blame list since he stuck to his independent guns.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

who's to say Libertarians would all vote for Romney? They certainly don't agree with him on any social issues. That stuff actually matters to some people.

i voted libertarian, but i would never have voted for romney, if anything it cost obama a vote, so yeah, not following the premise of this thread either

 

[maxiep]

You certainly drank the kool-aid.

Give me a fucking break.

Thank you for your opinion. You stay classy.

 

[Mediocre Man]

My choice was Johnson

My vote was Romney

My nightmare was Obama

People that voted for Gary Johnson were foolish

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

My choice was Johnson

My vote was Romney

My nightmare was Obama

I was confident in Romney's ability to right this country to be honest even though I generally lean libertarian. So I voted for him. I hold no ill for those that voted libertarian though. The entitlement class is just too attractive to the mass populations. Its just going to get worse though. Just have to live with it, no matter how fucked up it becomes.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Sorry republicans, I tried to give Romney Oregon by not voting Obama... but it just didn't work out. Next time.

 

[Denny Crane]

I actually want a Libertarian to win. Gary Johnson is a good man and was a downright good governor.

I find what Obama wants to do to the country, and already has, to be downright scary bad. He's the antithesis of what I am for, other than a few social things that basically cost the country $0 (integrating the military, gay marriage, dream act).

I find Romney to be way out of touch with my views on markets and Liberty.

I wanted Obama to lose. I didn't want Romney to win.

If Obama were to win, I wanted divided government and even the most left-leaning person to find it hard to claim there's a mandate in his reelection (there isn't, thank goodness).

If I were forced to choose between Obama and Romney, I'd have stayed at home, or voted only for other offices.

I'd have strongly considered a vote for Roseanne Barr, except she's a nitwit and her VP is even worse.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I'd have strongly considered a vote for Roseanne Barr, except she's a nitwit and her VP is even worse.

I think it was a stunt to boost her one hit wonder career.

 

[jlprk]

It wasn't the 3rd party votes. I blame the unions, the hurricane, and the Black Panthers.

 

[mook]

Romney sucked, but he's the kind of candidate who emerges from the current climate of Republican primaries. You get a complete fake like Romney who can convince enough right wingers that he's a Strict Conservative and enough optimistic non-batshit Republicans that he's an electable moderate Mass. governor who can win a general election. He was a fake who could convince everyone in his party, but few else.

If the primaries had produced a normal standup moderate Republican in the vein of Bob Dole, Obama would've been creamed given the state of our economy and the unpopularity of Obamacare.