Let's face it. Obama is probably gonna win, and the Republicans are actually pretty lucky because of it. If Romney won, we'd see the type of backlash Iceland saw a few years back.
Americans don't have the tolerance for B.S. that they had 10 or 15 years ago.
Both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign are proof positive that if anything, the American public's level of B.S. tolerance has increased over the past 10-15 years. Dramatically. (In fact, that's the only thing dramatic about this election).