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Instead of asking why Mitt Romney lost the election, the question Republicans should be asking themselves is why he was able to come so close after the first debate—and why things started to slip away less than two weeks later. If you think back, on Oct. 3, Nate Silver's model gave Romney just a 13 percent change of winning. Nine days later, it had tripled to 39 percent—the closest Romney ever...