8 irrelevant points.......The country has passed the tipping point where conservatism once ruled. Had Reagan been the candidate, he likely would have lost too.......
There is a new voting community out there, young people who have been indoctrinated by our liberal public schools and universities, the third generation of welfare recipients, the growing numbers of environmentalists and the over powerful MSM that is now the propaganda machine for the leftist movement.
As a side note, I sincerely doubt that J. F. Kennedy would even have survived a democrat primary today.............
Our cultural and political values are shifting left and the only way a Republican will ever be able to get elected president is if we start embracing the philosophies that we are staunchly against. Then that defeats everything we stand for..........
My take is that Obama won simply by taking his natural constituency of misfits and losers and adding enough gainfully employed voters in the 25-55 age group who saw no urgent reason to change things in 2012 (or saw Romney as a credible threat to their livelihoods, in cases of auto workers in the Midwest or Federal workers in Virginia).
I think it really was that simple. One other thing that hurt Romney's chances is that Obama has rightly been painted as a Marxist, but here we are in November 2012 and the so-called "Bush tax cuts" -- some of which date back more than a decade -- are still in place.