Wow, they still don't get it.
Hundreds of threads on post-mortem, and there are the same amount of theories.
READ THIS DUMMIES: It did not matter who you ran. We would have voted for PolPot just to strip you of power. Well, maybe not Pol Pot, but you get the idea. The damage you have done to our economy, our face on the world's stage and respectable social norms COMBINED is what killed your candidates. I realize simple brains want a simple answer, but few things are as black and white as you claim. It's all grey.
The United States of America is NOT the planets welfare bucket. We flat out REJECT socialism. We REJECT multiculturalism because we actually recognize that some ideologies are in direct conflict with our way of life. We are a poorer nation because of you. Our security overall is weak because of you. Our cultures and way of life at at risk because of you. Why don't you take a show of hands on the DUmp and see just how many of your treasured members are on SSI... and how many of they could actually WORK if they really wanted to. SICK OF IT.
The great experiment was severely damaged due to your insufferable ideologies. You have all but destroyed the unquestionable success of capitalism by stripping it of it's motivating qualities. Companies are leaving because they are tired of losing by subsidizing your bullshit... and the rest of us are sick of subsidizing your protected groups... when you vote with your hand in our wallets, we take serious offense.
People want to work and succeed. You've made that ideal less probably with every year you were in power. You take from our families in favor of yours, things you have no claim to, and we are damn sick of you calling everyone who doesn't agree with you, filthy names. We are sick and tired of arguing about gay wedding cakes and pretending islam isn't a problem for us. SICK of it.
Do you get it? It wouldn't have mattered who you ran. We reject your IDEOLOGY, with prejudice.