All Mitt had to do was get out as many voters as the pathetic John McCain managed. All the talk about the 47% (looters), the “browning” electorate, the gender gap, and all of that is mostly noise. The Republican base stayed home. Mormon issue? RINO issue? Both? Something else? That question of why is of the utmost importance, and I have no doubt that the GOP’s collective brain-trust will get it wrong.
Again, the Republicans stayed home.
Why did the Republicans stay home? Mitt’s campaign insulted them and he refused to press Caliph Hussein on the issues. So many people concluded (not without justification — remember “Etch a Sketch”?) that there wasn’t sufficient difference between the two. Romney is a chameleon.