President Ran Superior, If Ultranegative, Campaign
Posted 11/07/2012 07:01 PM ET
Election: The take-away from Mitt Romney’s defeat is that bare-knuckles campaigning and nonstop attack ads work — a tough lesson for Republicans who don’t like to street fight.
President Obama and his campaign strategists did an impressive tactical job of demonizing Romney in the key battleground states they needed to narrowly win reelection.
Their relentless propaganda campaign portraying Romney as a rapacious, venal plutocrat proved more powerful than we thought. Romney let them define him early in the campaign and the negative image stuck.
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Romney was willing to campaign that way against Republicans in the primaries. Of course, he needed a few defeats before he learned that.