Top ten reasons Mitt Romney lost that you won’t read elsewhere

The biggest reason for Mitt's loss was VOTER FRAUD!

Mitt Romney lost largely because Barack Obama is an above-average President. Had a conservative Republican achieved what Barack Obama did -- and Barack Obama isn't particularly liberal -- he would have won a landslide. Putting an end to the most dangerous economic meltdown since the 1930s without a speculative boom, getting the US out of one pointless war and easing out of another, whacking the most dangerous terrorist ever... that must be good for something.

Mitt lost women and men by supporting the stupid ass that said God supported keeping babies created from rape. He is so crazy on that one issue and it nail him as a loser automatically by both voters with an ounce of larality.

Bottom line: Mitt lost because he ran a right wing campaign in a country which is MODERATE at worst, and he ran against the best, most effective MODERATE President since Eisenhower. Thousands of white middle class Republicans like me voted across party lines for that very important but under-reported reason.

He lost because he took 55% of all the voters, namely women,and threatened them with "vaginal probes" loss of birth control, repeal of roe v. Wade, and no equal pay for equal work. It did not help to ignore 50 million legal Mexicans, 35 million blacks, and 30 million assorted citizens with skin color darker than his, a full 30% of the population.

I agree wholeheartedly with Markday, who expressed everything very well.

Mitt lost because the democrats are on the attack 24-7 telling lies, damnable lies, about any and all republicans. They lies are damnable because in the long run a lot of people are going to die because of them....republicans are Not racist, Not woman haters, as the democrats paint them...the republicans for their part think the democrats are their good and dear friends?.....

sharlot looked into her crystal ball and saw the ffuture

Agree with seanmor; those that think Obama's so great---check back in 4 years and see where we stand!

Yes, I agree, seano. Obama appeals to moderates for the same reasons he frustrates progressives. When I needed to understand why he didn't move faster on progressive causes, I read some Reinhold Niebuhr, his favorite philosopher/ historian/ theologian. Now I think I understand Obama better (but I'm still a pushy progressive).

It may be more prudent to say a majority of moderates supported Obama.

Like DaveKelly, I also think EphraimKibbey's right, except when he says, "a large portion of the Independents" voted for Obama. Only 45 percent of Independent voters supported Obama. This outcome flips the 2008 result, when only 44 percent of them voted for Republican McCain. Independents helped Obama win in 2008, but not much in this election, and they're 24% of voters. I'm not sure why, but probably Obama lost ground with them because they are mostly white male economics voters. Why did Romney lose? Although 51 percent of voters agree with the GOP that government is too 'big,' 55 percent agree with Dems that the economic system favors the wealthy. Consider how many are struggling financially, and, as Ephraim says, do the arithmetic. (My data are from Pew Research.)

O'Brien ignores the biggest reason-- Romney miscalculated 'what women want.' Telling us all we care about is money, he and his wife tried to re-create us in their own image. Women cast 53 percent of the votes, and 55 percent supported Obama. Women gave Obama an 11-point margin to overcome the 7-point margin that men gave Romney over Obama. Women voters gave Obama crucial margins of victory in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. Two sets of perceptions competed at the polls: (1) that government has grown too 'big' and (2) that there is too much unfairness in the system, too much power in the hands of too few, who use it against women, minorities, the poor. The second perception won out because it takes government action to re-balance power and protect fairness for everyone. If the GOP cooperates in re-balancing and stops threatening women's rights, they might remain a viable party. If not, they're gone by 2016.

Having a nasty day Tom Mo!! don't worry it will pass with the ravages of time and the demise of the teaparty.

The Obama campaign exploited a version of the "battered wife syndrome." Where the victim (in this case the American working & middle classes) having suffered consistant abuse (black and hispanic unemployment at all time highs, persistant high fuel prices, etc.) are given the choice of a seemingly cold rescuer or return to their abuser who is promising that it will be "better" next time and, besides, it's really the victim's own fault. As in many dojestic abuse cases, the victim goes back to the familiar rather than take a chance on breaking free.