Frankly, you’re right. Based on debate performances, Santorum and Gingrich wouldn’t have fared much better. The whole problem which we face is just the media as a religion now, and people making judgements on soundbites. Then there’s the guilt factor, yeah, scares like big bird, making the poor starve, and so on, all add up.
There just wasn’t one big thing, people don’t realize what is coming down the pike - unemployment numbers will adjust back from the BS BLS numbers in september, employers will start to drop healthcare pay the fine and put people onto 0bamacare, the debt will rise, military spending will decrease causing the layoffs, etc.
Apparently Americans have not felt enough pain yet, after the next 2 years of Obama people will be begging for a new president.