Irrelevant.
As I see it Romney was so close to Obama, politically, that his win would be virtually indistinguishable from an Obama win [policy-wise]. (IE Romney and Obama are only a few cents different when compared to ideologies of, say, JFK or RR which would be [at least] hundreds of dollars different.)
Besides, to say that they didn't have a chance of winning is to say that their votes did not count [because their candidates lost] and yet Romney lost, so then does that make the votes for him not count? -- You cannot have it both ways: either a vote for someone who loses counts or it does not, and if it does not then why vote?
RE: As I see it Romney was so close to Obama, politically, that his win would be virtually indistinguishable from an Obama win [policy-wise].
Let’s assume that Romney keeps his promises.
1) He would immediately grant waivers to all states for Obamacare.
2) He would sign a bill given to him by Congress to repeal Obamacare and start from scratch.
3) At the corporate level, the Romney plan would make reduce the corporate income tax rate from 35 to 25 percent.
4) Romney would also permanently repeal the 0.9 percent tax on wages and the 3.8 percent tax on investment income of high-income individual taxpayers that were imposed by the 2010 health reform legislation and are scheduled to take effect in 2013.
5) Governor Romney would have permanently extended ALL the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that were scheduled to expire in 2013, repeal the AMT and certain tax provisions in the 2010 health reform legislation, and cut individual income tax rates by an additional 20 percent.
6) Would sign a bill that would PERMANENTLY do away with the death tax.
Tell me how that is similar to Obama again?