The last election was by the votes of Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, and Independents all choosing to vote for President Barack Obama and will do the same in 2012 because there are no new ideas that make sense from any other party.

If by 'conservative' you mean republican, only 28% of registered voters are registered republican.

That means that the republicans need a high percentage of those that are registered as independents or registered with the also ran parties, which make up 39% of the electorate.

My guess is that they were only able to pull in about half or less of those independents.

Anybody can put whatever label on themselves that they want to and for republicans to call themselves 'conservative' it is a misnomer when you consider that over 80% of our national debt was gifted to the country by the republican administrations of Nixon, ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush.

A couple factors here. First, Bush-hatred forced voters to vote for a "rebound". They just voted for anything but Bush. Next Obama sold himself as a centrist and unifier and with his newness and charisma, many voters didn't think reasonably as they would had they been picking a roomate to live with. Lastly, the majority of Americans sit directly center on a scale where at one end you have total government control(far-left) and at the other end of the spectrum, no government control(far-right). So when Obama called himself a centrist, his center-right supporters voted for him even though he was only a centrist in rhetoric and not in action.

Most of America is still sitting at the middle, or to be exact, center-right while liberals have moved further left and Republicans have moved towards center-left to emulate liberals. We are STILL a center-right country historically, so whoever is able to promote at center-right platform and act on it, they will get unbelievable support..

A conservative didn't run.

In the most meaningful sense, they DID win but were of course betrayed by the Democrat wearing the conservative mantle.

Polls of Obama voters proves he won because people expected LOWER taxes, SMALLER government and LESS spending. In other words, they voted for Obama because they foolishly believed he was the CONSERVATIVE choice.

Many conservatives didn't vote because John McCain was not conservative enough. Many independents and moderates fell for the hype and empty promises and voted for sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.

Somehow, and the reason is the media supporting Obama and whitewashing all of his gaffs and problems, idiots who hated Bush so much, voted for Obama without thinking about the consequences. Now they do.

The right has so distorted reality that we get nonsense numbers like this all the time. Look at other figures, such as support for national health care and withdrawal from Iraq to get a more accurate figure.

The moderates and liberals teamed up to put Obama in office, and the rest of the Dems

I think $4.00 gasoline at the pump and the media making no distinction between Bush and McCain led to the landslide Democratic win back in November, 2008.

Most of all other groups wanted hope and change. When the other groups wake up to what sort of change is being wrought, they will become conservative, too.