A few things:
If you are eligible to vote and you do not, it is slightly hypocritical to complain about how the vote turned out. Imagine what would happen if every disillusioned, non-voting citizen got out and voted for change. Considering that 30% voter turn-out in the USA is considered great, it would change the nation.
If you can vote, and do, and the majority still fucks up the country, then by all means bitch to the heavens.
Mormonism is a complex issue for conservative evangelicals in the USA. On the one hand the Mormon church is slightly to the right of Pat Robertson politically, but on the other hand fits the definition of a Satanic cult religiously. On the one hand the Mormon church is lily-white, even to the point of only letting black people into Heaven since 1978 (and that was only done to avoid losing Federal tax exempt status), but on the other hand is actively attempting to replace Christianity. On the one hand they call themselves "Christian," but on the other hand only do this by completely redefining what the word "Christian" means.
That last bit actually helps, because while the GOP and evangelical leadership knows damn well that the Mormon church is not by any traditional meaning of the word "Christian." The fact that they call themselves that combined with the fact that the most common trait of the Republican base is ignorance means they can largely ignore Romney's religion as long as they keep it off Fox News. I guess there are advantages to convincing your base to rely on only a single source of news and information.
Scottish independence is like a fifth Die Hard movie. We all think it would be really cool, and we all like to talk about how awesome it would be, but we don't really want it because the reality would never live up to our imaginations. No one wants to see John McClane in space, and no one wants to see the Scots try to write a constitution. We would just end up taking all the current British documents, crossing out everywhere is says "United Kingdom," and writing in "Scotland." Then we would all stand around and wonder why the fuck it isn't working and constantly telling the Welsh they can't join.