All these aftermath analysis are always off first of all the turn out was a lot lower than in 2008 and Obama didn’t win by the same amount either.
Fact is ROMNEY DID BETTER THAN MCCAIN percentage wise.
Romney won more states and had more electoral votes than McCain and his margin of loss was smaller in states like FL, OH, VA, and in PA.
Noway did McCain do better except in the amount of votes and again that’s due to turnout on both sides. McCain’s EV was paltry and his margin of loss in states like FL, OH, and VA weren’t close.
In 2008 there was no way to win, the GOP was doomed, and the first black president was making history.
In 2012, there was no way the GOP could lose, Carter II was doomed and the country approaching depression.
Mitt Romney, the failed governor of Massachusetts, who lost his chance for reelection and left office with 34% approval, and who has won a single election in 20 years of campaigning, was the problem, he was an artificial construct who had never been a part of republican or conservative politics, who was only focused on a personal drive to be president for no known reason or purpose.
We still don’t know what his politics are, or why he has been obsessed with being president for 20 years.
People here have different feelings on his election disaster, but everyone here can agree that they really don’t know anything about the man himself, or how the one term governor from Massachusetts ever came to be the leader of the conservative/republican agenda in America.
Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, and the anti-Reagan wing of the GOP are behind this mystery of the last 6 years in regards to William Weld’s protege, Mitt Romney.