“ref your last two lines. Have you looked at these results like others have?”
My last two lines didn’t mean what you seem to assume. What I had in mind were not just the “lost McCain voters” (the numbers on that story are both evolving and distributed in ways that had uneven effects on state outcome), but the millions of independents and “moderate Democrats”, who by all rights SHOULD have voted for Romney. These votes were critical to build a margin of victory to offset the Dem’s massive fraud operations. This group voted for Reagan under similar circumstances (an incompetent Dem President, wrecked economy, weak foreign policy, etc). I am not an advocate of pandering to dependency voters and amnesty hounds to get votes, or becoming Democrats-Lite. What I do want is a less destructive nominating process, better down-ticket candidate development, and a much stronger job of presenting an unapologetic conservative agenda. Romney tried to be too genial and non-specific. This did not provide a strong positive reason for moderates to turn out for him, and allowed attack ads and the media to portray him as unprincipled, pet-abusing, bullying, and insincere. The negative attacks on Romney raised enough doubts to keep the “moderate/independent” voters from voting for him. 9 million+ of these stayed home rather than vote for Obama.
Just so we are all clear, I am blaming the loss we have suffered on voter turnout. What I am saying is that it is a shame that so many Americans seem to care so little about our country that they will not vote at all. That’s what is troubling me.