Apparently the republican party was too stupid to learn that lesson and has again fielded a group of unacceptable candidates. It' the republicans who are choosing to place a democrat in the White House by their fielding a list of bad candidates. It's not enough to say so and so is better than a democrat...can't the republicans field someone better than the lesser of 2 evils?!
Well, we did have Hunter and Thompson, acceptable candidates who couldn’t get elected. It would seem that the voters are the problem. Although the open primaries and the media didn’t help matters.