Yeah, sure Bibi Netanyahu got 73% of the vote, but he couldn’t even rally 50% of the Likud party to go out and vote for him.

Netanyahu’s’ people even did everything they could to improve their own advantage at the voting booth (including allegedly some dirty tricks), but in the end, Netanyahu couldn’t get his own people to get out and vote for him.

Why?

Because no one can differentiate his positions from Barak. In fact, Barak is making pronouncements far more Right than Netanyahu is doing.

Not only that, but Bibi is backsliding.

Forget about not holding right-wing positions, he has been taking positions that put him Left-of-Center: bringing in Jordanian troops into Israel, complaining about Friedman’s attempts to rehabilitate the Judicial system.

Why would anyone on the right vote for him?

Hell, why will anyone in the (non-existent) “Center” vote for him. They see his position as left. They might as well go for the original.