Romney couldn’t beat Obama?
Romney didn’t beat McCain.
Disgraceful. A billion dollar campaign? What did Republicans get for their money?
McCain, 2008 popular vote: 58,319,442
Romney, 2012 popular vote: 58,163,978
That is the biggest fact of this election and no one is talking about it.
Pretty simple. Stupid GOP primary voters nominated the candidate with the most baggage and a history of losing elections because of it. They were warned about “vulture capitalism” in the primary by Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. At Bain Capital Romney presided over the demise of many companies and laying off of workers. Yes, that’s because that’s what private equity firms do, take over troubled companies which are likely to fail. But that produced a ton of people for the Dems to put in ads to complain that Romney laid them off and ruined their lives. It killed Romney in his 1994 Senate race and killed him in this race. He only did as well as he did because people really hated Obama. But the white, blue-collar voters stayed home because they were scared off by the ads about what Romney did at Bain.
Romney was always the least electable primary candidate on a very fundamental level. The only way he could’ve won was to go hardcore negative on Obama to drive Obama’s turnout down even more. He knew how to do it. He did it to Newt Gingrich in Florida. But he didn’t do it. Possibly because it was hard to credibly bash Obama over things like Obamacare when he designed the prototype for it, Romneycare.