Originally Posted by PornMD

How exactly? He could never really explain that to the American people, which is why he failed. "He sucks, I don't, vote for me" can only go so far. As much as many people may have been crying for change, a change from bad to an unknown that could be potentially worse was scaring people.

There was also that thing where the Republican party ultimately decided on the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama. Isn't that a clue? He lost to an out-of-prime John McCain in the primary the first time around - the Republican party willingly nominated a loser. And hell, if you want to be technically correct, they nominated a loser last time around too, with McCain having lost the nom to Bush in 2000 back when he would have been a half-decent option.

I think ultimately a lot of Republicans were sort of jaded about voting because of that, hence the low turnout. How can you get excited about a dude who lost to a nearly-senile McCain 4 years ago? Seriously, Mitt was no leader - just some rich guy.