[RginTN]

This I believe. Moderates running the Romney campaign made no real effort to attract Conservatives. ABO was not enough.

[Alberta's Child]

I can also see why Rove was acting like a crazy man late on Election Night, ranting about the media's call for Obama in Ohio when he insisted Romney could still win. He was watching his career evaporate before his eyes. The Republican Party may be rank amateurs in a lot of respects, but once you are associated with a losing campaign in an election that they really should have won, you're usually persona non grata after that.