If you read the article, Romney lost because GOP voters didn’t vote for him.
Romney managed to lose to Jimmy Carter’s second term, yet here you are trying to create a fantasy of him winning in a Reagan like landslide, if only....
Romney has never belonged in republican politics, and is a failed and terrible politician with a single election victory during his 20 years of running, and he failed in that office, could not run for reelection, and was booted out of office with 34% approval.
If Romney at the end of his term in office as governor of Massachusetts had only 34% approval from the voters in THAT state.....he must have done something right.
It is a fact that Romney won the white vote by about 20%. The fact ALONE would have guaranteed Romney a landslide victory like Nixon in 1972 or Reagan in 1984 had demogrpahic factors not changed so drastically these last two or three decades. In my state alone-—California-—whites are now less than 40% of the population. Republicans cannot get elected dogcatcher out here anymore. But CA used to be a red state in presidential voting behavior. From 1952 to 1992 the GOP won every presidential race in CA (except for 1964). Changing demographics have since turned CA into a solid blue state. Ronald Reagan could no longer come close to winning an election here in CA with our current electorate.