What you may endear to yourself (hey by the way, recent news from Uganda should cheer you, they’re back to stoning gays, even those who only give sidelong curious looks let alone sodomy — you will thrill to hear about the real witch hunt going on, in the name of the bible no less) as “the base” isn’t what I meant by “Mitt’s base” meaning those people eligible to vote who passively polled, in private polls, as preferring Mitt to Obama. “Mitt’s base” was larger than “Obama’s base” as analogously defined. However, passive preferences did not transfer to active attendance at polls. Even Democrats are marveling that Mitt did not put more energy into his campaign, which would have gotten more of that passive base off its duffs.
Anyhow I know you clearly despise Mitt, but facts are facts.