Posted on 11/08/2012 3:14:29 PM PST by Arthurio
Mitt Romney's campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade.
Then came the early exit polls that also were favorable to the president.
But it wasn't until the polls closed that concern turned into alarm. They expected North Carolina to be called early. It wasn't. They expected Pennsylvania to be up in the air all night; it went early for the President.
After Ohio went for Mr. Obama, it was over, but senior advisers say no one could process it.
"We went into the evening confident we had a good path to victory," said one senior adviser. "I don't think there was one person who saw this coming."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Be happy you have Obama again 4 more years
I give up. The GOP will be so scared about losing 2014 they’ll do everything to do just that.
Between now and Christmas, with the meme of “Obama won”, they’ll go SLAMMED as not caring, etc. if they don’t agree with O and keep the tax rates the same for “middle and lower class” and keep the 2% payroll tax reduction unless “the poor have pay another $40-75 a month” for “tax cuts for the rich”, etc.
And they’ll cave because the election says the moochers want more from the producers. Of course, smart folks like us would take the opportunity to point out how the tax code is the problem and they should want lower rates and more control, but again the election shows that “scares” 51% of people who can’t get out of bed without a government alarm clock.
So Boehner and McConnell will bend over and give O anything he wants and STILL lose in 2014 because we will stay home. They didn’t take the 2010 election they won big and do a damn thing with it. Think they’ll fight now?
Let the GOP-2 die for good in 2014 and let’s reboot with REAL CONSERVATIVES running on a TRUE CONSERVATIVE message. This means no to Rubio, Jeb Bush, etc. And please, no more faux conservative retreads like Rick Santorum (as soon as he got up in the ranks in the Senate, he became a DC boy).
Or goodbye GOP...move over for the new Conservative/Constitution/Rand party. Producers unite! But alas, there are lots of good producers that play the Dem game (Apple, IBM, Microsoft and now even Walmart).
My husband and I were also shell shocked. We totally believed Romney would win based on the rallies, the reports of independents going to Romney and increased Republican voter registration, the bad economy, the debates, etc etc.
I wish I had known better because this let down was huge.
Same here. Now I'm just disgusted with those who voted for that same "worst President."
I hate to admit this but that Nate Silver and that other guy at Princeton U were spot on accurate to a frigging tee.
Well, I think in part the Democrats feinted the GOP into thinking that support for Barack was weak by holding all these show rallies to which almost nobody came. They knew all the while that their astroturfing, skunk works get-out-the-vote was going to prove powerful.
Mitt was shellacked by the presumptive shellackee.
I would like to know, with all the news reports of so many people standing in lines for hours to vote, how the vote totals are so far below 08’s?
Uh, no he wasn’t. Missed several senate races and was wrong on predicted margins. He was mostly right, but not “spot on” to a “frigging tee”
I feel bad for Romney. He was a good man. A good manager, but sorely lacked the conservative vision.
I honestly don't think he understood the vile and viscious nature of the left. I think, like GWB, he would have tried to win them over. There is no winning them over. They are deranged people, by and large. I think he may have left office much like Bush, broken. And I certainly don't know that Ann deserved what the left would have dished her way.
We are where we are. Many should have paid closer attention to things --like who was being imported and what their children were being indoctrinated with but all that, I guess, is in hindsight.
All, I know going forward is that when the left seizes power --they don't let go. Regardless of what it takes.
I’m shellshocked too. I think voters believed Romney’s argument that the economy was awful, jobs would not come back under Obama, and that national security has been weakened under the Kenyan but that just scared them and they voted for “free stuff” from Obama.
Some good came out of the Election. We in Las Vegas will not have to put up with of the Free Loaders, from Washington, and their wives. we won’t see them for another four years...Yeah!!!!!!!
Given the length of election campaigns these days, that would have been 2 or more years ago.
No one else saw this coming either ....
Got to wonder about THAT, eh?
Even the “professionals” didn’t see it coming so what the hell does it mean?
I have an idea.....
It is still an experiment however. I don't think enough people realize that we are just an experiment.
There is a history of polls being off, and we are always on the down side. I will ignore Dick Morris. His history is mixed, but he navigated Clinton for years successfully with poll data. I’ll ignore Rove’s prediction, too, as he also missed 2006 in a big way. When I heard Michael Barone say Romney big, that was significant. I think many felt the polls underestimated GOP turnout, either due to polling inaccuracy or to purposefully drive public opinion. It didn’t... the polls pegged that there was a significant number of base voters who weren’t going to show up.
The GOP should go GALT. What’s missing in America are POLITICALLY INCORRECT MEN. Put me up before Congress and I don’t give a F**K about the look on their faces when I call them on their acts of treason and their complicity in 0bama’s crimes by failing to prosecute and IMPEACH him.
Yup....and check out Freeper jackmercer right here on FR last week. He was as good as Nate Silver. He NAILED it. Fact is Rove & Barone & Morris were dead wrong. And jackmercer talks about Drudge just using the 2 bad polls” Gallup & Ras & screwing up all us conservatives, lol, and I’m one of them ! I trusted those 2 polls.
Even with increased early voting.
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