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I think this fracture in the Republican side is the immediate problem. To run someone sane, presumedly like Romney, you anger the tea party and the fundamentalist, then the party is too fractured to run an effective campaign. I really beleive Aiken and Mordouch (tea party conservatives) cost Romney the election along with the 47% comment. I think that woke a lot of people up to what the right wing currently stands for.
Yes and no. Romney cost the GOP the election because he is Romney and a flawed candidate on so many levels. His gaffes, mistakes, history, and so on all contributed to the problem.
But saying that, the people who ran... not many were better than Romney.
And in the end we saw no amount of hype or wishful thinking can compensate for a well run get out the vote election machine... something the GOP does not have.