[Political Junkie Too]

Republicans failed to take back the Senate in 2012 because they didn't nationalize the race for the Senate.

They were winning the Senate prior to the convention. After the convention, McConnell went AWOL and Romney never extended coattails to campaign on a national message of sending a team to Congress to work with him as President.

Each state, each candidate, was left the themselves to win their seats.

Republicans went from being ahead in 7 races before the convention to losing 2 seats after the convention.

It was not because of flawed candidates. It was because of a failure by the party to create a national message that everyone ran on.

-PJ

[centurion316]

Republicans failed to take back the Senate in 2012 because they didn't nationalize the race for the Senate.

I disagree. Their candidates stunk the place up. Case in point, Todd Akin. No hypothetical nationalized race would have changed that outcome.