Why Romney & GOP lost (and probably will continue to lose) based on the math!

Malcolm — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:51:39 +0000

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

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47% by the numbers.

Malcolm — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:00:14 +0000

Recently a video of Mitt Romney at a political fundraiser speaking on the upcoming election was leaked. The video has caused an uproar in some and a faint wisp in others. The quote going around is

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

Now the thing about the quote that is the most troubling to some is that the feeling is that he is writing off half of America. Me personally I think the more telling thing is that if you take a look at the map below of the states with the most nonpayers. Three states had more than 40 percent nonpayers — Mississippi (44.5 percent), followed by Georgia (42.5 percent), and Alabama (40.3 percent) — all three are red states. The remaining top ten were largely in the Sunbelt: Florida (39.0 percent), Arkansas (38.8 percent), South Carolina (38.8 percent), New Mexico (38.7 percent), Idaho (38.6 percent), Texas (38.5 percent), and Utah (38.3 percent). All but two of the top ten — Florida and New Mexico — are red states.

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Why Romney & GOP lost (and probably will continue to lose) based on the math!

47% by the numbers.