How can you say that in the face of record-smashing support from the religious right? By some measures he had more support from the RR - such as % turnout of eligible voters - than Obama did from black voters.
Whatever reason for the loss was, it wasn't due to lack of conservative support.
For crying out loud, Romney’s support was weak, you can see that at FR.
The fact that Evangelicals voted for him like they did in 2004, is about all that he had going for him, there is no denying that Romney was a weak candidate.
If he got that “landslide” of support, Ken, he would’ve won. I don’t buy those numbers. They sound as suspicious as the pre-election polls which turned out to be wrong. Even Barone, who is rarely wrong, was taken in (as were a lot of people). I have to say as well, again, that Willard was the most unmotivating figure put up by the GOP in some time. I refused to vote for him because I found him to be viscerally offensive and decidedly non-Conservative. Of course, it didn’t much matter as my state will vote for any Republican (no matter how offensive) for President. The Dems have had such a calamitous situation in this state that the last 3 election cycles have each been like 2010 (to wit: going from a tie in the legislature to GOP supermajority). There’s almost nothing left for the GOP to win.