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There were enough voters out there who didn't like any kind of Republican to lose us the election.

Hence, precisely the need to go back to what has been demonstrably proven to actually, you know, WORK (2010 Tea Party-driven election, rebuilding the CINO-abused Reagan Coalition of the '80s, etc.); and not continue to follow the GOP-e's suicidal piss-on-the-base-while-energetically-fellating-disaffected-democrats electoral Bataan Death March, yes. My point, exactly. ;)

The electorate is different in midterms from in presidential election years. A lot of people who habitually skip off-year elections turned out this time to vote (or so we're told). Different strategies may be necessary when the pool of people voting differs.

Any presidential candidate is going to try to woo independent or swing voters. Maybe one candidate would be able to bring out more "base" voters than another, but that's usually not enough to win presidential elections.

I'm not sure what your getting at towards the end, but the "abused Reagan Coalition of the '80s" was built by -- I'll just skip your obscenities and say "wooing" here -- "disaffected-democrats." That's why there was so much talk of "Reagan Democrats" back then.

The problem is that Democrats who might be disaffected have changed and winning them over isn't as easy as it once was. A lot of the old Republican base is gone as well.