Maybe the repub man on the street tried, but the GOP leadership did everything they could to throw this election, starting with insulting Ron Paul at the convention after he brought in (literally) millions of new voters to their party.

Also getting Dov Zakheim, associated with 911, and John Bolton, a warhawk into prominent and vocal positions, worrying people that the Bush team was coming back....

and having Romney and Ryan say so many of the stupidest imaginable things that it was almost like they couldn't try hard enough to lose this.

With the economy in the tank, statistics being falsified right and left, corruption at the highest levels seen in government since the gilded age of the 19th century, they could have won this with a dead circus clown.

Losing it was hard work, but the GOP was up for it.