How did Romney lose 2012?

[megaton24]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

 

[Statistikhengst]

So, let me get this straight: you joined this site on October 1, 2012 and have posted all of four times to date, and now you put out such a thread? Really?

Now, to your OP, which is completely lacking in any data or information from a neutral source. It is your opinion, which is just fine, but you ask a question in your OP title, yet not write about an answer to your question in the body of the OP. So, lot's of non-sequitor, here.

Short answer: it's hard to unseat an incumbent president. Since 1912, it has happened only 5 times:

1912, incumbent Taft (R) lost.
1932, incumbent Hoover (R) lost.
1976, incumbent Ford (R) lost.
1980, incumbent Carter (D) lost.
1992, incumbent Bush 41 (R) lost.

Please note that four of the five incumbents who lost were Republicans.

The following incumbents did NOT lose re-election:

Wilson (D) 1916
FDR (D) 1936, 1940, 1944
Truman (D) 1948
Eisenhower (R) 1956
Nixon (R) 1972
Reagan (R) 1984
Clinton (D) 1996
Bush, 43 (R) 2004
Obama (D) 2012.

That makes for 5 incumbent election cycle losses and 11 incument election cycle wins, more than 2:1 for the winners.

The chances are far stronger that an incumbent will win re-election than that he will lose.

Second, the money game: President Obama had no primary challenger (as had Taft, Ford, Carter and Bush 41), which meant that he could bankroll the money for the GE, and that is exactly what he did.

Third: Romney made a number of missteps. So did Obama, but the timing of the respective missteps was to the president's advantage.

Next time, write an OP worth debating.

 

[JoeB131]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

Yeah, a lot of us didn't want the Mormon Cult to take over our country.

And since ObamaCare was originally called "RomneyCare", i doubt he'd have revoked it.

Romney was a Mormon Piece of shit who only cared about rich people. And frankly, if racism didn't animate the GOP like a zombie, he'd have probably lost by a bigger margin than he did.

 

[PratchettFan]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

He lost it for me when I saw that every time he said something his handlers would immediately come out to explain what he "really meant". 2012 was the first election I didn't vote Republican and that was the primary reason.

As to what kind of president he would be, we will not know. Your comments on the current president are nonsense.

 

[gipper]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

You are terribly confused.

Romney is only slightly less progressive than Obama...but both men have much in common. Both are big government progressives and agree on most things, like the expansion of the welfare/warfare state.

Educate yourself on Romney's years as governor of MA. That should tell you all you need to know.

 

[Statistikhengst]

PratchettFan - that is one loaded duck!!!

 

[Toro]

He lost because 3 million fewer Americans voted for him and lost almost all the swing states.

I hope that helps.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

Don't you mean Romneycare?

IMO, Romney lost the election when this came out.

 

[PratchettFan]

PratchettFan - that is one loaded duck!!!

I know. My daughter gave it to me and it has sat in my office for the last 20 years. She knows me so well.

 

[BullKurtz]

Bad advice...after Mitt took Barry to the woodshed in the first debate he was told not to do it again because it would turn off women voters to keep humiliating the turd. These are the same kind of advisers who wrote off Michigan in McCain's 2008 run while Palin begged to campaign there. And then after the loss they blamed Palin for being "rogue". The GOP has to learn to let the candidate go by their instincts....it's not like it's any of their first rodeos.

 

[JoeB131]

Bad advice...after Mitt took Barry to the woodshed in the first debate he was told not to do it again because it would turn off women voters to keep humiliating the turd. These are the same kind of advisers who wrote off Michigan in McCain's 2008 run while Palin begged to campaign there. And then after the loss they blamed Palin for being "rogue". The GOP has to learn to let the candidate go by their instincts....it's not like it's any of their first rodeos.

Who told him "not to do it again"? Frankly, Romney crapped the bed in the second debate when he tried to claim Obama didn't call Benghazi terrorism, when he's on tape doing exactly that. When you tell such an open lie that the moderator has to correct you, you've shit the bed.

But really, Romney was done after the 47% comment. He simply wasn't ever coming back from that one.

 

[guno]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Romney was the perfect person for the presidency at the time. His economic policies would have saved the country and a Romney presidency would have prevented Obamacare from being implemented. He would have given us the first president born in Michigan, the first Mormon president and the best president since Reagan. Whereas Obama is evil, doesn't do anything, wants Congress to bow down to him, and implemented Obamacare which has cost jobs and hurt the economy.