Posted on 11/07/2012 3:31:00 PM PST by all the best
Didn't anyone else find it odd that in the midst of a year of escalating U.S. casualties in Afghanistan, that issue hardly ever got mentioned in any of the debates or campaign ads?
I said the same thing last night after I turned off the TV, but without the thousands dead.
This article suggest that Romney did NOT run a better campaign.
I don't know where you reside, but here in California we were spared the campaign ads that ran in the swing states. According to the article, Romney had no strategy for his ad purchases. He did not run summertime ads while Obama was bashing the heck out of Romney. His anticipated September ad buy astonishingly skipped key Ohio markets, and his lack of ad purchase planning forced him to pay a five times premium for the same ads that Obama ran (think of buying an airplane ticket on the day of the flight vs. buying the ticket weeks in advance, and you have Romney's ad buying practice).
The ads that Romney did run were soft, high-road ads that lacked punch. The "Gingrich attack" ads that Romney ran in Florida during the primaries never ran against Obama. Many here suspected that would be the case, and it was.
Those are not the makings of a well-run campaign.
-PJ
My take is that Obama won simply by taking his natural constituency of misfits and losers and adding enough gainfully employed voters in the 25-55 age group who saw no urgent reason to change things in 2012 (or saw Romney as a credible threat to their livelihoods, in cases of auto workers in the Midwest or Federal workers in Virginia).
I think it really was that simple. One other thing that hurt Romney's chances is that Obama has rightly been painted as a Marxist, but here we are in November 2012 and the so-called "Bush tax cuts" -- some of which date back more than a decade -- are still in place.
1) Those who benefit from the nanny state or illegal immigration voted en masse
2) Too many true conservatives, including evangelicals, stayed at home.
Romney lost because he alienated the Tea Party and evangelical voters during the RNC. Those are the groups that stayed home. And as the GOPe continues to parade moderates and RINOs as presidential candidates, the GOPe will continue to lose more and more ground.
They are destroying any chance of bringing a viable candidate to the people, and they are helping to destroy the nation.
the newsmax publisher is looking for excuses, not analyzing what Mitt did or did not do, and the excuses are all weak
if those “bumps in the road” were beyond the “damage control” talents of Mitt and his people, they were to blame for lacking the talent and resources EVERY campaign needs, to turn lemons into Lemonaide.
But, as I said, in the first place, I don’t think the excuses Ruddy gives were anywhere near the importance he rates them.
“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Until we come to the place of GREAT repentance on the part of the majority of this nation, we will see an increasingly worse scenario. The CHANGE that is really needed is SPIRITUAL. History teaches this. The Sacred Scriptures teach this. Why do we have to learn this the hard way?
Exactly. Exactly. Exactly! I am weeping at this difficult truth.
We have engendered 2+ generations of native born Americans who expect that life is to be cushioned from every inconvenience, let alone danger, by government, from free food and shelter and medical care to free cell phones and condoms. On top of that, we have accepted an invasion of largely illiterate often destitute undocumented immigrants who largely haven't any desire or interest in their new land's history, founding principles or the rule of law.
So this cruel mathematics of dilution over time has remade our basic fabric, our willingness to sacrifice for the common good, often plain survival as a nation, to a new cloth neither exceptional nor lasting.
that was not the case in Ohio
Mitt did get a few less vctes in Ohio, but it is so blue that 300+ thousand Dims did not show up, and while the GOP turnout was lower too, not anywhere near as much lower as the Dims, and yet Mitt managed to change the GOP vote percentage from 46.8% to 49.9%; but the GOP stay-at-homes would not have made up the difference
I understand your point and both you and I know that those tax cuts will expire the end of this year. I suspect there aren't many Obama supporters that know that fact simply because the Dem propaganda machine, the entire MSM, chose to deny them that information..
But then again, the vast majority of the Obama supporters will not be affected by the sunsetting of these cuts nor will they care about the ultimate outcome of them.....
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Cherry, I agree with you 100%. Romney was at first my least favoarite choice among the Republicans, but once he got going, I began to like him. I thought he ran a good campaign, and was charming, well-spoken, and attractive. I saw how the huge crowds turned out for him, and no one was turning out for the Dems. I truly believed that he would win by a landslide. Something happened. Our system doean’t work anymore. We need to take extreme measures, because it’s not going to get better.
Alaska Mark Begich
Colorado Mark Udall
Louisiana Mary Landrieu
Minnesota Al Franken
New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen
North Carolina Kay Hagan
Only Dem seats that can realistically taken back
Kentucky Mitch McConnell only Repub in any danger
If Begich, Hagen, Shaheen, and Landrieu all go down, Dems still will retain control (even if Angus King doesn’t caucus with them). I don’t see Udall or Franken losing, due to demographic shifts.
If Franken does lose as well, and the Repub’s sweep the first 4, Angus King, if still not caucused with any party(doubtful), would then truly be the king-maker.
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