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Obama miraculously won 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland, how could that happen?
Even 3rd world dictators never get more than 80-90% of the vote. For that matter, the highest voter turnout is usually around 60-70%. So how did he win the 2012 election?
@tonalc2: Total votes, not just black votes or hispanic votes
24 Answers
- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
It didn’t.
townhall.com is a propaganda machine.
- ?Lv 67 years ago
I just cannot beleive that Romney did not contest the election, and nobody of any importance, brought this up.
The fact is that the ppl did not vote for 'bama, in significant numbers anyway. I'm certain some did, but I don't think ppl are that too far dumbed-down that they'd blatantly vote against their own interests like this.
Even though Mittens Romney was a terrible candidate, and the worst possible spokesperson for campaigning to abolish obama's healthcare law, for obvious reasons, he still should've thoroughly beaten a severely unpopular President. The thing is, Romney allowed obama to define him; obama made the campaign all about Romney, and not about his record as President.
There were only 2 other GOP hopefuls that would've torn obama to shreds in debates. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. The GOP electorate vehemently rejected Noot, and Ron Paul had the carpet pulled out from under him at the convention.
- Mercadies2000Lv 77 years ago
George Soros his financial backer had a huge amount of voter machines made before this last election and were distributed all over, it would seem one of them landed in Cleveland! I have to laugh at how quick the left on here jumped on this. They didn't even have any convincing arguments against what was said just that it didn't happen and attacked the news site, seems like they are just blindly following on.
- JacaraLv 77 years ago
Here in WA on the west side Obama got between 85% and 97% of the votes. One district was nearly 98%.
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- Tmess2Lv 77 years ago
The report is not entirely accurate.
According to the official records of the State of Ohio (which you can find by going directly to the Ohio Secretary of State's website and downloading precinct by precinct results (http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/elections/Research/...
there were 19 precincts in Cleveland in which Romney was shut out, but that statistic only tells part of the story.
One of those 19 precincts actually had no voters who actually voted. Three of those precincts had fewer than thirty voters (one having only two voters, making it very easy for one candidate to get all of the votes). Lastly, in six of those precincts, while Romney did not receive any votes, other candidates did. If you eliminate the two precincts with 0 and 2 voters, and the six candidates in which voters preferred Gary Johnson or Virgil Goode (or another third party candidate to Mitt Romney), that leaves only eleven precincts -- one with thirteen voters, one with twenty-one voters, and one with fifty-two voters. In most of those precincts, there were people who cast a ballot but did not cast a ballot for President.
More significantly, all of these precincts were low performing precincts for Republicans across the board. If you look at the racial composition of some of these precincts, you would see that they are over 90% minority according to the latest census data. For example, in Cleveland Precinct 6H (one of the nineteen precincts), over 98% of the voting age population is African-Americans. Based on exit polls showing that Obama got 96% of the African-American votes in Ohio, you would expect Obama to get 94-96% of the vote on average in these precincts. Having a handful of these precincts in which Obama got 99% or better is not that much of a statistical variation.
Finally, there were precincts in other part of the Ohio were Obama got fewer than 10% of the vote. If you think Obama getting more than 90% of the vote proves fraud by Democrats, then Obama getting less than 10% of the vote proves fraud by the Republicans (especially as the only demographic group in which Obama did poorer than 10% in exit polls was Republicans implying that there was not a single Democratic voter in any of the precincts in which Romney got over 90%).
- Anonymous7 years ago
Interesting that your article doesn't source any Cleveland based News papers or election officials. It makes no mention what so ever of where it got its information from. In fact when i Googled this the ONLY mention is your source which is clearly Conservatively bias and your question.
- ?Lv 67 years ago
In Cincinutty, he probably got 0%, and not just because Monroe County, O., is the arm-pit of the right wing.
Assuming the claim is true, it's further proof that Dems and Reps are identical twins.
- SeanLv 77 years ago
There was a lot of problems at the time with the machines only counting votes for Obama regardless of who was actually voted for. I remember a lot of complaints about it early in the day but I always wondered how many voting machines were never discovered to be rigged.
- SageandscholarLv 77 years ago
Tiny districts in heavily democrat areas that always go at or close to 100% Democrat. There is nothing miraculous about it - just more desperation from hateful conservatives trying to create a scandal where there is none.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Philadelphia too. It seems none of Romney's outspoken supporter voted for him.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Well, I believe that this was Voter Fraud. In the news, not Lib news, but the other news sources you will see on video, someone being harassed if they didn't vote for Obama. That just shows you, People really didn't want him to get a second term. Han, Obama knew it.