Figures rounded to the nearest million:
1968.....73 million
1972.....78
1976.....81
1980.....87
1984.....93
1988.....92
1992...104
1996.....96
2000...105
2004...122
2008...131
2012...123.
The biggest "shrug" was in 1996 when Republicans ran me-too liberals Bob Dole and Jack Kemp against the real liberals, Billy Clinton and the Div. School Dropout, AlGore.
The second biggest shrug just occurred, when Republicans again ran me-too liberals, tax collectors for the welfare state who promised to preserve Medicare and keep certain parts of ObamaCare, against the real deal in Obama, who just expanded the welfare state with ObamaCare.
Republicans. They don't call them the stupid party for nothing.
If they had at least run conservatives who lost we could say conservatism lost. But they didn't, and we can't.
