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Originally posted by Fernando.
Popular Vote:
Romney
60,861,683
47.3%
Obama
65,600,425
51.0%
To come close with a person who is a homophobe, flip flopper, has extremely right wing ideology's etc.. is just absurd. 
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Not all that absurd, unfortunately. A huge chunk (about half) of America are still homophobes and extremely right-wing, just like Romney. George W. Bush was able to safely use his opposition to gay rights as a pillar of his re-election campaign and that was just 8 years ago - and he
won. And until last month, no pro-gay ballot initiative had ever passed in the US. And it's no surprise so many Americans vote along party lines regardless of Romney's flip-flopping.
Still, Romney did get relatively clobbered. A 4% popular vote difference is enormous, especially in presidential elections.