{"id":31105,"date":"2012-11-01T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/there-are-two-things-that-could-win-this-election-for-romney.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:48:30","slug":"there-are-two-things-that-could-win-this-election-for-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/there-are-two-things-that-could-win-this-election-for-romney.html","title":{"rendered":"There are two things that could win this election for Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they both have to do with the number of voters that turn out for Obama.<\/p>\n

If overall Democratic turn-out is low, especially in the "swing states" (not as fun a thing to be as it sounds), then Obama will lose.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if enough Democratic voters can be kept away from the polls — by, for example, Republican poll watchers being trained to mislead voters or election officials about what the actual requirements are to vote (such as insisting on photo IDs in states where photo IDs are not required), then they can make<\/i> the Democratic turn-out lower.<\/p>\n

But, of course, that would be cheating.<\/p>\n

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And they both have to do with the number of voters that turn out for Obama. If overall Democratic turn-out is low, especially in the "swing states" (not as fun a thing to be as it sounds), then Obama will lose. 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