It was stolen, but as though by an unarmed burglar who, while you lazily watch TV from your sofa and munch potato chips, saunters in your front door, picks up your TV remote control, then saunters back out. Someone technically committed a crime and someone else did not, but the someone else bears some responsibility.
40% of Americans who could have voted for a Presidential candidate in November 2008, did not. That would be room for a much larger tilt either way than we actually saw.
Quit asking them to sell their souls in order to vote for the RNC imposed candidates. Who knows maybe they will come back. Problem is all I see are the same old mossbacks preaching the same old losing message, so prepare for years of this. And be sure a generate a lot of hate for the group that has a conscience.