lol all of the above....well not all.... the Republicans have shown an amazing capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....If they ever want to win another election they are going to have to use the same go-for-the-jugular campaign tactics the dems use. Face it folks, the networks/ media and the hollywood millionaires elect our representatives and tell this country of sheep what to think. In a country of children the whitest Rich (and thus apparently inherently evil) guy in America, isn't going to beat Santa Clause....here's an example of the informed voters in america.....in the 1st district in Maryland, the democratic challenger for congress was taken out of the race after it was learned she had voted in Florida and Maryland BOTH, since 2006 in at least two of the past elections (a crime, voter fraud!). . . . . apparently disqualified (but not jailed) too late to be removed from the electronic ballots....she still got about a 3rd of the votes! (instead of the person the dem party in MD had chosen to put into her place) I am sure Romney's choice to be a wuss in the 2nd and 3rd debates didn't help either.... all in all, it was probably the worst run and executed campaign in history!... for crying out loud, the old sick-looking grouchy grandpa McCain even got more votes than Romney! After the Republicans savaged each other in the primary season, they assured that whoever ended up being the nominee would already be ripe for the picking by the exemplary democrat election machine. Ya gotta hand it to them, if someone told me that they would be able to, in America no less, make the fact that someone was a successful businessman a negative in a campaign where the economy should have been the biggest issue i would think that they had lost their minds.... but no ,it wasn't them.... it was the rest of us ....or maybe just me.... gawwwd how I loathe politics/politicians,lol