Yet they did turn out. It’s not my premise that is wrong, it’s your assumption. Romney got more conservatives to vote for him than McCain, but he failed to capture the independents and moderates.
Really? They did turn out? Is that why both Romney and Obozo received fewer votes in 2012 than did McLame and Obozo in 2008? Some turn out!
McCain was running in an election that republicans couldn’t win, and against history itself, he was running against a wave and 8 years of Bush.
Romney was running in an election that republicans couldn’t lose, against a president worse than Jimmy Carter, and whose dismayed voters stayed home by the millions.
Romney couldn’t even increase the republican vote by a million under those wonderful conditions, it was a history making weak showing and cost us the Senate, and predictable.