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you're right. there's still indiana however and then there's the matter of Barack obama receiving ~7 million fewer votes in 2012 than in 2008 while Romney received only ~800,00 fewer votes than mccain. Missouri voter turnout for Romney was greater than turnout for for McCain too and, likewise, fewer people voted for Obama in 2012 than in 2008. Again, it was democratic turnout that was depressed.

To me that looks like there was actually decreased enthusiasm for Obama and mostly typical enthusiasm for the Republican and it also looks like radical conservatism was rejected in favor of more moderate views considering that Akin and Mourdock were both rejected in states that Romney carried.

I'm sure there were conservatives who didn't vote but to say that the election was lost because of them is pure horsesh*t. We lost because we were unable to tap into key demographic groups in swing states. We were unable to break the democratic coalition and the reason for that is pretty obvious, because a couple of nuts tainted the entire party and platform with their extreme nuttiness and drove independenta and moderates back into the arms of the Democrats.

these guys were so wrong and so destructive to our agenda that I am utterly convinced that they aren't even in favor of actually ending abortion. I think they were sabateurs and you'll never convince me otherwise because they couldn't have been more destructive to our cause if they had tried.