Romney spent the summer not campaigning. Yes he saved his money for the end run, but never built up a groundswell of support. He never overcame the anti Mormon voters. Maybe the cheating by Obama figured a percent of the vote. Too many independents and pissed off conservatives stayed home. He lost. I voted for him only because Obama's reelection would be a disaster.
There were far more anti liberal voters who didn’t vote for Romney than there were anti Mormon voters. The fact is that I don’t see that things would be all that different under Romney. We’d have different big government thugs but that’s about it. I voted for Romney, but only because I wanted to get rid of Obama, not because I thought Romney would change the course.