Something I find interesting is the position in the media where they're talking about the fact that he's a Mormon. They're saying that contributed substantially to the failure of his campaign, and I just don't see that. His campaign failed because he was a self-promoting stuffed shirt who said whatever he thought people wanted to hear, and everybody could see through that. PLUS he didn't handle the whole "Mormon" controversy very well anyway. He could have put that on the back burner with some solid policy, but he didn't have any.
He's not presidential material and, in this case, the system worked perfectly.