Romney Barely Outperforms McCain

What if I had told you before the election that Mitt Romney would only get 800,000 more votes than John McCain?  I would have been laughed at forever, right?  But right now in the vote count, that's exactly where Mittens is at.  Barely surpassing the pitiful performance of John McCain.

Turnout is down about 2.2% from last election also.  This can almost be entirely figured in to the hurricane hitting the northeast just days before the election.  In fact, New York and New Jersey, the two states hit the hardest, both show a correlated drop in turnout.  It's probably safe to assume the drop in turnout from those two states greatly hurt the president way more so than Romney.  This election was just never really that close.  A hurricane hit the two states where Barack Obama's support is over 60% and he still wins by almost 5 million votes and 126 electoral votes.  Romney never stood a chance really.