this is not a game
sloop, they did show up to vote in spite of the snubbing. The fault with the GOP’s moderate strategy is that they declined to energize and capitalize on the genuine grassroots power of the tea party movement. It was a stupid thing to do.
Energizing the base is how you get the less involved people to the polls. Those who go about their daily lives mostly unaware of the political world around them. Those are the ones that Romney failed to reach. It’s his fault.