I heard somewhere speculation about Evangelicals bolting from Romney, to where I dunno, maybe the eco-nut faction went to him, I have seen no data on that.
Anyway, I think the bigger issue was what appears to me to be the near total abandonment of the Tea Party support for Romney, I suspect when all is said and done that it will not be anti-Mormon sentiment or anything, but the collapse of Tea Party support that did him in. It appears the Libertarian and Libertarian-leaning elements in the Tea Party either stayed home, voted for Johnson or wrote in Ron Paul...the surge in Tea Party support in 2010 just evaporated...no doubt seeing Ruling Class asshats like The Butthead stab Tea Party candidates in the back in the primaries and run as independents against them if they did win the primary soured the people supporting those candidates.
Perhaps if as I argued a long time ago the GOP front runner were to openly court Ron Paul and see if the idea of running Treasury could have energized some Tea Party support and resulted in a better turnout for Mitt, I dunno, it's all academic anyway, the deed is done.
What cannot be denied is that once again Ruling Class elements gave us the candidate who was not any of our conservative first choices, I went along with it to give others the benefit of the doubt and perhaps buy some time, but the fact is the Ruling Class porked us again. They'll deny it an blame us, but whatever, people know better. The Tea Party people sure seemed to know better, now it is time for conservatives to leave the GOP, put families and friends and their own welfare first and go on about life.
Want more reasons to abandon politics? The dust hasn't even settled and the media is speculating about 2016...just read this and then ask yourself "Why do I care?"!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/with-2012-election-done-fields-wide-open-for-2016-presidential-tickets/