Obama was a magic minority and McCain was the war hero to run against him.
Romney failed to win the primary in 2008 for the same reason he lost the general in 2012. Romney at least pretended to be concerned about illegals. I think Romney cost us Senate seats in ND and MT.
There was no serious competition and in hindsight I don’t know if anyone could have beaten Obama with the low information voters. Only in 2013 did the low information voters understand how bad Obamacare is.
Someone that wasn’t afraid to point out all the corruption of the Obama regime, someone who wasn’t afraid to actually say BO is a socialist and actually talk about BO’s background....basically someone that had some real fight and spirit to win at all costs and that was not Romney, it was Valerie Jarrett.