... or -- Occam's Razor -- the Republican party attempted to beat a doctrinaire Chicago liberal with a doctrinaire Massachusetts liberal, and suffered an entirely predictable (and predicted) electoral thumping, as a result.
Go right ahead and keep placing your faith in the revealed wisdom of Karl Rove and Dick Morris, however.
Hillary Clinton will certainly appreciate the GOP-e's continued blind, mulish insistence upon gainsaying brute reality, when she crushes Jebbie Bush and/or Chris Christie, come '16.
They will find these votes in the Ohio or Mississippi River, maybe in both.