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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1056202" data-attributes="member: 17969">The divide "didnt" get larger, the election simply went back to party line voting.In 2008, the entire country was SICK of BUSH and his policies, and that meant that independents and republicans voted for OBAMA.  This is why he had record numbers.In 2012, those republicans that voted for him were sucked back into the republican column and the votes OBAMA lost were merely GOP votes.The independent voters still went with Obama, and with less than 35% of the country's voters actually voting, it worked out to about a 50/50 proposition.Nothing else can be concluded.PeaceTOS</blockquote>