"It was after Sarah Romney was chosen that things picked up, considerably. Massive crowds started showing up, volunteers showed up to man local GOP offices, and money came pouring in."
He had massive crowds, money, volunteers -- didn't make a whit of diff.
The game is now about Democrats having endless weeks on end to ship low-info voters to the polls. Period.
Fix that, and it's game on again...
Romney’s crowds in 2012 were only a fraction of what Palin’s were in 2008.
Dems were able to get low info voters because they appealed to their base. An excited base works harder to draw low info voters. Romney specifically worked against his base to go after the moderates and independents. According to Rush Limbaugh, the dems had already learned that was a losing strategy. They found that appealing to the base brought in more voters.
I guess now we know who was right.