So very true---sometimes post-election analyses finds issues the pundits never pin-pointed.
In the recent Cantor route, little-known issues WRT Cantor making enemies of top Repubs drove the election in some areas.
Everybody thought Cantor was "untouchable". Nobody thought his TV ads would hurt him....but the $5 million ads kept repeating the positions of his opponent---which Cantor figured would hurt the opponent.
Turns out, voters liked whet they heard and dumped Cantor.
The private circumlocution of voters in the voting booth is hard to predict.
indeed it is - which worries me to a degree. I wonder how many public "conservatives" are now on the public dole and will secretly vote liberal big gummint while professing to be to the right????? I wonder how many like Glenn Beck, and hardcore preppers, vote Obama to bring about the apocalypse - because if it happens, prepper elites will rule the world! (I am a prepper, but a jr. prepper) Just some thoughts - inspired by your excellent post.