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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney and GOP's latest asinine attack: Obama "unopposed, only got 80 percent" in N.H.
Mitt, talking about N.H. results:
"The President, unopposed, only got 80 percent last night. So, you know, I feel sorry for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Romney explained."
http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2012/01/11/romney-dunks-debbie-wasserman-schultz
Actually, Obama got 82 percent - and, of course, 30 seconds of Googling teaches you a bit about the last three presidents who ran unopposed in N.H. (and were reelected):
Bush Jr., 2004 - 79%
Clinton, 1996 -84%
Reagan, 1984 - 86%
My god! How can Debbie and Obama show their faces, having earned only the average amount of support for a president seeking a second term in the Granite state?!?!
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Neil Cavuto and disgraced GOP candidate Herman Cain on election night:
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CAVUTO: We do want to let you know, if you'll indulge me, I do want to get your reaction to this. There is a primary going on the Democrat side, too. It doesn't get much attention. The president is officially unchallenged, but he is competing with eight other individuals in the state of New Hampshire. And this is rather telling -- it's still very early, but Gary, can we take a peek at this? I don't want to make an overly big deal of this, but there is a large number of write-in votes going on right now on in the Democratic primary for [candidates] other than Barack Obama. In fact, he is, that is the president, is scoring about three-quarters of the vote among Democrats, but he is not running away with this. Whereas Bill Clinton, when he ran up for re-election in 1996, got 96 percent of the Democratic vote.
ight now, Barack Obama is comfortably winning, but he had about 72 percent of the vote at last juncture, so you're just going to have to take me at my word here. I do have this here. That means 28 percent of Democrats voting in New Hampshire have voted for someone other than the president. Now, Herman, in and of itself, that's not revolutionary, but half of those 28 percent were write-in votes. Very early in the evening -- roughly 10 percent of the vote there, too. What do you make of that?
RCAIN: Neil, with all due respect, that's the big story.
CAVUTO: That's why I said it.
CAIN: The big story is -- exactly, that's why you're as good as you are. That is the big story, and that is, people are assuming that President Barack Obama wasn't going to be challenged, but even in New Hampshire, you've got write-in votes. And like you said, he didn't get the 96 percent that Bill Clinton got -- he's down to 72 percent. That means there is a very large amount of disillusioned Democrats that are not happy with President Barack Obama's track record in terms of his results. I think that that is the big story.
http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/201201110005
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)I am so sick of lies.
And that dumb fuck Cain probably read '96 as in the YEAR Clinton ran and mistook it for 96% because he's a fucking moron.