Let me help you with that: Palin fantastically enthused the base so that millions more voted for her ticket than they did for the charisma- and issues-limited Romney and Ryan.
yet Palin along with McCain lost more EV and more states than Romney and Ryan. And lost by a bigger margin in battleground states like FL, VA, and OH than Romney and Ryan.
I’m sure most of the extra votes Palin and McCain got came from already deep red states because they sure didn’t come from battleground states.