It’s the Looters, Stupid

The Wall Street Journal has posted an article concerning the 2012 presidential elections that has more truth than the people want to hear. If the election is close, the Democrats win because they have the numbers. Although the 2010 census shifted some of the electoral college votes, there are just more looters than producers as Ayn Rand outlined in Atlas Shrugged.

With hands out and promises of redistribution, eighteen blue states will give Obama 90% of the electoral college votes needed to win. Looking at the map below also shows another mathematical corollary: the states with the worst economy are the states that will hand Obama another four years if the analysis is correct.

The life blood of the productive states is being drained by the blue states: an Obama victory will be the end of this country. That is making the assumption that we will have elections in 2012.

David DeGerolamo

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Blue-State Math Is Boon to Obama, Target for GOP

The important thing to remember about a presidential election is that it isn’t a contest to win the popular vote nationwide. It is a contest to win in a combination of states that will produce the 270 votes in the electoral college that give a candidate the majority there.

Therein lies the Democrats’ built-in advantage. They happen to start with a bloc of reliably blue states that is larger, and much richer in electoral votes, than the reliably red bloc Republicans have on their side. If a Democratic presidential candidate merely hangs on to this trove of deep-blue states, he or she is a long way down the road to victory.

Specifically, there are 18 states plus the District of Columbia that have voted Democratic in all five presidential elections since 1992. Combined, they carry 242 electoral votes—90% of the votes needed for victory.

Republicans have a much smaller bloc of highly reliable electoral college votes. There are just 13 states that have gone red in each of the last five elections, and they deliver 102 electoral votes, less than half of the number needed.

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tmedlin
tmedlin
12 years ago

I think the GOP has a good chance in NC, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and Indiana -- possibly even Pennsylvania.

WAY too early to tell, though, and it depends on who the nominee and VP candidate is.

Steph (EternalRiteWing on Twitter)
Steph (EternalRiteWing on Twitter)
12 years ago

If we lose the election, it is our own fault. There ARE no excuses this time around. We must continue educating people. Many have abandoned the Democrat party, including a significant percentage of Jews and the black population. Independents are throwing their support for conservatism. Even many Democrats in Congress and Senate recognize that Obama is an empty suit who is destroying our beloved country. It is up to us.

Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston
12 years ago

The 2 left coasts and other states dominated by leftist democrats are draining the productivity and wealth of the rest of the nation to pay their voters welfare, food stamps, and other government handouts. These programs were designed to be short term assistance until a person could get back on their feet. They have turned into generational “jobs” and the taxpayer can no longer afford to keep the poor in this country in their SUV’s, watching their big screen TV, playing xbox, sucking the life’s blood from the rest of us. The choice is clear…I sure as hell hope America has her glasses on

Matt
Matt
12 years ago

You say “The life blood of the productive states is being drained by the blue states:”

“Productive”? You can’t be serious. It’s actually the other way around. You might want to take a look at the actual FACTS regarding which states are feeding at the federal trough and which states are providing that feed.

Below are the top 10 states who receive MORE money from the Federal gov’t than they pay in taxes. You referred to them as “looters”, right?

1. D.C.
2. N. Dakota
3. New Mexico
4. Mississippi
5. Alaska
6. W. Virginia
7. Montana
8. Alabama
9. S. Dakota
10. Arkansas

The following are the top ten states receiving LESS money from the federal government than they pay in Federal taxes. You would call them “producers”.

1. New York
2. Caliornia
3. Mass.
4. Colorado
5. Minnesota
6. Illinois
7. Nevada
8. New Hampshire
9. Conn.
10. New Jersey

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/the_red_state_ripoff.html