Except none of us was telling people to stay home. Quite the opposite. We were oth there working to get people to more conservative. Thats also historical fact.
Mitt’s state being blue does not matter. Logically if you want to flip a blue state red, you would push conservative policy. If you want to make it bluer, you push liberal policy. Mitt pushed abortion, gay marriage, hard left judges and Romney cage. The result was making a blue state bluer.
Again, documented history.
Voting third party, writing someone in...these are the same as staying home. If you weren’t encouraging people to vote for Romney in the general, you were helping Obama.
Of course the state being blue matters. Politicians are subject to the will of the electorate. Also to the legislature the electorate elects, and to the court appointees of previous administrations. I don’t claim Mitt was any kind of great conservative leader on social issues, just that he’d be better than Obama, for whom the gay rights and abortion agendas are ideological imperatives. Yeah, Romneycare, which was stupid but constitutional at the state level. As a prez candidate he campaigned on repealing Obamacare. I don’t know if his heart was in that or not, but it doesn’t matter: if he were president right now with conservative majorities in the House and Senate, we’d be picking Obamacare apart. He wouldn’t be vetoing.