I think the numbers look like the GOP candidate was way more viable than the pundits predicted.  With a libertarian candidate - funded by an Obama bundler - taking votes from the GOP candidate, and with the GOP candidate's problem of turning off independents, especially women, it was a hill a bit too high to climb. But he almost did and the lesson here is that Obamacare is what each and every 2014 GOP candidate should be hammering Democrat candidates with.