I think Paul lost because most Republicans do not take him seriously and they want to vote for somebody that can win. Paul can't win, everybody knows that and so while they may like him or his ideas I think it's more important to them to choose a candidate that can beat the Democrat. Paul is, even if he does not like to admit it, an independent. His own party does not want him and that's his biggest issue. The media warmed up to Paul quite a bit, I thought, as the campaign went on. I think they began to take him more seriously but he was always tabbed as, and rightly so, a guy that could never get the Republican nomination. He's got his supporters but even they know he has no chance and why he continues to beat on the Republican door is beyond me...they won't ever let him in.