Todd, Ryley is the only one who answered your question and he did it on the Romney thread. He was wrong but at least had a reason behind his thoughts:

Originally Posted By: Sky-Guy
What you are seeing with the large R turnout is based on these principles:
There is not one person who voted for John McCain last time who will switch and vote for Obama this time.
There are many previous Obama supporters who plan to vote for Romney.
Republicans who stayed home four years ago rather than vote for McCain are not going to stay home again.
Many will vote not because of Romney, but in spite of Romney. They want no more of Obama and his policies.
Thats why I voted the way I did in Rouges thread.


The most relevant thing that was wrong was the "Republicans who stayed home four years ago rather than vote for McCain are not going to stay home again." I simply didn't believe that and stated a long time ago that the evangelicals would NEVER fully support Romney in terms of effort and money due to him being a mormon (They just VERY recently changed their language so they don't have to call Mormonism a cult). They fully propped up Republican candidates in several of the previous elections and were strong advocates for getting out the vote in their own communities. They actually kind of pulled a double-whammy of steering the party to the right and away from a lot of potenital voters AND then not even giving full support to their candidate.