Romney had to assume a win and his campaign had to make the preparations for that possibility.
Eric Erickson is saying 27% of evangelicals didn't show up. They have no consciences, only delusions. Pontius Pilate every one of them.
We need to stop blaming the electorate. The electorate is what it is. If evangelicals didn’t vote, then it is up to the GOP and the nominee to provide a reason for the electorate to vote for them, not simply “vote for me to stop the other guy”. That is just negative campaigning and that only depresses votes, it doesn’t encourage them. The GOP has been successful by enlarging the voting pool. Reagan did it with the Reagan Democrats, and Gingrich did it with the Contract With America. Today, the only party trying to do it is the Tea Party.
Democrats have this figured out. They only need 70% of hispanics and Asians, 90% of blacks, and 40% of white (with 55% being women) and they get 51%. They got the ground game down cold and keep pushing this until they hit their early voting marks along these lines. They target their voting base and provide incentives to get them to vote. Their incentives are essentially bribes involving govt. handouts. It’s a disaster for the country, but it works to win elections.
We don’t have to provide govt. bribes, but we better start figuring out exactly what we need to do to get our voters to the polls, and more importantly, eat into those percentages above that the democrats depend on. If we don’t we will never win the presidency again. Blaming the electorate for not voting “against” the guy we don’t like is not going to win us anything.