The GOP lost the election and they say we are imbeciles but look at the numbers. About 80 percent of blacks, Latinos and other nonwhite voters cast their ballots for Obama on Tuesday compared with less than 17 percent for Romney, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. (Source) Obama also won about 63 percent of total voters age 18 to 34. Obama also maintained his advantage with women, defeating Romney by 11 points among female voters. So the demographics say that Romney’s biggest block of voters would be old white men and shrinking. Throw in the Asian vote (President Obama carried 73 percent of the Asian vote on Tuesday, continuing a two-decade-long march of Asian-Americans toward the Democratic Party in presidential politics.) (Source) and you see the GOP is starting to run out of options.
So the GOP is under the assumption that “The Takers” just want to take from the makers, one person on Facebook even suggested we should split the states based on red or blue and maintain an army but govern separately well lets look at that idea. Here is data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis as per the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. And using the electoral map from here http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results. If you take the total in millions Blue States almost have double the State Gross Product of Red States. The math doesn’t add up for the GOP but they don’t really see it.
| Blue | 8,624,526 |
| Red | 4,483,943 |
http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/lpa/industry/gsp/gsp_index.html
This is State Gross Product
| Millions of chained (2005) dollars | ||||||
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011* | Voted 2012 | ||
| United States | 13,016,791 | 12,527,057 | 12,918,931 | 13,108,674 | ||
| Texas | 1,077,144 | 1,057,675 | 1,113,104 | 1,149,908 | Red | |
| North Carolina | 377,869 | 368,963 | 378,131 | 385,092 | Red | |
| Georgia | 373,862 | 350,590 | 359,590 | 365,809 | Red | |
| Indiana | 241,913 | 224,998 | 238,199 | 240,933 | Red | |
| Tennessee | 230,791 | 219,956 | 229,606 | 233,997 | Red | |
| Arizona | 241,134 | 221,254 | 223,655 | 227,098 | Red | |
| Missouri | 222,177 | 211,630 | 216,017 | 216,099 | Red | |
| Louisiana | 184,046 | 187,272 | 204,819 | 205,877 | Red | |
| Alabama | 155,870 | 148,074 | 151,480 | 150,330 | Red | |
| South Carolina | 146,164 | 138,622 | 141,616 | 143,278 | Red | |
| Kentucky | 140,681 | 134,784 | 140,498 | 141,266 | Red | |
| Oklahoma | 134,407 | 130,231 | 132,782 | 134,146 | Red | |
| Iowa | 123,680 | 120,088 | 126,172 | 128,597 | Red | |
| Kansas | 114,122 | 109,838 | 112,759 | 113,367 | Red | |
| Utah | 103,861 | 101,849 | 106,166 | 108,329 | Red | |
| Arkansas | 91,618 | 88,946 | 91,186 | 91,496 | Red | |
| Mississippi | 87,128 | 83,116 | 84,933 | 84,272 | Red | |
| Nebraska | 77,702 | 77,045 | 79,772 | 79,889 | Red | |
| West Virginia | 51,591 | 51,876 | 53,352 | 55,765 | Red | |
| Idaho | 51,371 | 49,299 | 51,154 | 51,463 | Red | |
| Alaska | 41,039 | 44,030 | 43,591 | 44,702 | Red | |
| South Dakota | 34,302 | 34,097 | 34,175 | 34,443 | Red | |
| North Dakota | 28,624 | 29,209 | 31,833 | 34,262 | Red | |
| Montana | 31,946 | 31,067 | 31,985 | 31,983 | Red | |
| Wyoming | 31,369 | 32,088 | 31,919 | 31,542 | Red | |
| California | 1,756,115 | 1,673,333 | 1,701,912 | 1,735,360 | Blue | |
| New York | 987,442 | 963,681 | 1,005,324 | 1,016,350 | Blue | |
| Florida | 689,445 | 651,982 | 657,717 | 661,091 | Blue | |
| Illinois | 580,712 | 557,579 | 574,416 | 582,094 | Blue | |
| Pennsylvania | 498,227 | 479,143 | 494,498 | 500,443 | Blue | |
| New Jersey | 443,833 | 422,433 | 428,894 | 426,765 | Blue | |
| Ohio | 430,097 | 403,586 | 414,388 | 418,881 | Blue | |
| Virginia | 366,445 | 363,755 | 374,695 | 375,747 | Blue | |
| Massachusetts | 335,809 | 327,154 | 341,164 | 348,577 | Blue | |
| Michigan | 345,605 | 314,558 | 329,968 | 337,427 | Blue | |
| Washington | 308,180 | 299,631 | 304,953 | 310,906 | Blue | |
| Maryland | 258,729 | 254,540 | 262,041 | 264,373 | Blue | |
| Minnesota | 242,141 | 232,894 | 242,022 | 244,912 | Blue | |
| Colorado | 230,987 | 224,593 | 229,928 | 234,308 | Blue | |
| Wisconsin | 218,801 | 210,851 | 219,249 | 221,741 | Blue | |
| Connecticut | 202,473 | 191,722 | 197,451 | 201,386 | Blue | |
| Oregon | 170,182 | 164,533 | 177,807 | 186,228 | Blue | |
| Nevada | 119,826 | 110,779 | 111,161 | 112,503 | Blue | |
| District of Columbia | 87,765 | 87,089 | 89,893 | 91,643 | Blue | |
| New Mexico | 69,047 | 69,554 | 70,369 | 70,497 | Blue | |
| Hawaii | 60,098 | 57,313 | 58,106 | 57,977 | Blue | |
| Delaware | 53,692 | 54,737 | 56,398 | 57,293 | Blue | |
| New Hampshire | 54,456 | 53,428 | 55,734 | 56,572 | Blue | |
| Maine | 45,572 | 44,801 | 44,980 | 44,821 | Blue | |
| Rhode Island | 43,424 | 42,889 | 43,338 | 43,663 | Blue | |
| Vermont | 22,772 | 21,963 | 22,857 | 22,968 | Blue | |