Did Romney get FEWER votes than McCain?

[cthulu2016]

I think he did.

Why isn't that the factoid of the day? It's pretty incredible.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Total McCain Votes: 59,934,814

Romney Total as of latest update: 57,744,506

I doubt Romney will find 2 million more votes in what remains of the counting.

[MADem]

2. Talk about an "unenthused" base! They lied like a rug to that guy, and he was so stupid

he believed them...!

[EC]

4. or

there were 2 mil repubs that voted for Obama.

[Lucinda]

3. Yes. And the POTUS got more this time than McCain did last time.

[FreeState]

6. Obama is currently -8.8 million compared to last time

It will go up a couple more. Kind of a silly comparison seeing as our guy got less of a percentage than their guy did, at this point they both got fewer votes, and Obama got fewer in comparison.

2008
Barack Obama 69,456,897
John McCain 59,934,814

2012 (not final)
Barack Obama 60,567,122
Mitt Romney 57,744,506

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Obama -8,889,775
Romney -2,190,308

[MADem]

7. The McCain - Obama contest didn't have the special added

feature of Superstorm Sandy hitting a couple of high-population blue states and making it difficult for those people to vote.

Wonder what the count would have been if the power was on, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and that storm went out to sea instead of slamming into the eastern seaboard?

[FreeState]

8. NJ 2008 numbers :)

Barack Obama
Dem. 2,085,051
John McCain 1,545,495
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It will be awhile before we get this years numbers from NJ.

http://www.nj.gov/state/

[Honeycombe8]

5. No, I don't think so. He got fewer votes than McCain in Ohio, though. nt