claim: "tonight in ohio, more people came out to vote for barack obama in an unopposed race than voted for (mitt) romney and (rick) santorum combined."
author: david axelrod
evidence_1: not since 1820 had three consecutive american presidents succeeded in securing two consecutive terms. with the loss, mitt romney would also become the first republican since gerald ford's narrow loss to jimmy carter in 1976, who failed to win a presidential election, while earning a minimum of 200 electoral votes.
evidence_2: jan 29, 2016 ... and then there are the screw-ups. in the 2012 republican caucuses, mitt romney was declared the winner on caucus night. but two weeks later, a recount confirmed rick santorum had actually taken it. oh, and votes from eight precincts were lost in the mail. this all ended being academic anyway: by the ...
evidence_3: the process used by the democrats is more complex than the republican party caucus process. each precinct divides its delegate seats among the candidates in proportion to caucus goers' votes. participants indicate their support for a particular candidate by standing in a designated area of the caucus site (forming a ...
evidence_4: he was my first choice for president in the 2008 primaries and i believe that if given the job, he will be an exceptional president. my favoring gingrich in this now symbolic primary came from my belief that newt is more reform minded than mitt and i like that. but with newt out, i am solidly behind mitt romney and if mitt wins ...
evidence_5: on november 6, 2012, obama was re-elected for his second term as president of the united states. he won 65,899,660 popular votes and 332 electoral votes, with two states less than in his 2008 victory. in his victory speech in chicago, he promised to "sit down with" mitt romney to discuss a bipartisan future for the united ...