Election Maps to Make You Say Hmmm

It's over... well, is it?  

 

President Obama has won another four years in office, or rather Governor Romney lost the bid to take over.  By all indicators Romney should have won, and won handily - so what happened?  While the Romney campaign went with respectable ideals, they underestimated the Obama campaign's ability to get to the people they needed.

 

Look at the election map (courtesy of Foxnews.com w/Florida copied in by me) here:

Or a more detailed map here (courtesy of Freedom's Lighthouse) here:

Most of the country is actually "red" for Romney!  Very few are "blue" - but where they are blue it is in more densely populated areas (with the exception of a couple sparsely populated counties in Arizona).  The point here is that the Democratic machine out campaigned the Republicans in these key areas.  They also did not so much campaign on ideals of what they wanted to do for the future, rather the focus was on scare tactics projecting (often lies) about what a President Romney would do.  The "scare" worked.  The "focus" worked.

Now, on the other hand - going back to President Nixon, notice the pattern!

When a Republican wins - he gets nearly the whole country, but when a Democrat wins, he only gets key states.  Does that make you say "hmmmm?"  

For those who may be too young to have known all these years:  

2012= Obama; 2008= Obama

2004= GW Bush; 2000= GW Bush

1996= Clinton; 1992= Clinton 

1988= GHW Bush

1984= Reagan; 1980= Reagan

1976= Carter

1972= Nixon; 1968= Nixon (not pictured).

It is also interesting to note that every president since Nixon has been elected to two terms with the exceptions of Carter and GHW Bush.  Carter lost due to extreme economic crisis and the Iran hostage crisis; GHW Bush lost in a three-way race where Perot took a good chunk of the votes which would have gone to him, allowing Clinton to get in for his first term.