http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/2/
Note this thread here about how bad Team Romney's operation really was...
Exclusive - Inside Orca: How the Romney Campaign Suppressed Its Own Vote
Call me crazy but there needs to be an investigation into the computer system with the results. It IS a shock! There is something fishy, I believe. How hard would it be to tamper with the computers? We already know numerous people were cheating; voting more than once, and some not even registered. I am a level headed person all the time; and a professional as well but I detect something weird. Doesn’t anybody else?
They didn’t take into account just how much cheating Democrats do at the polls.
It is ironic that a man known for his prowess as a CEO was unable to assemble a competent staff for his campaign.
He under estimated the stupidity of the american people. Big mistake.
Very, VERY fishy....
Unfortunately many conservatives saw this coming, starting with Mike Savage.
The Romney advisers avoided Michael and his sage advice.
I cannot say that made a difference. I was shocked and stunned by the loss, but not totally surprised.
The usual allegations of fraud in the inner cities (Philadelphia with 99% turnout?), and too many Romney supporters staying home, were problems.
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Now, it just breaks my heart when I think about that video of Mitt arriving at that airport unannounced and being met by thousands in that parking garage where he placed his hand over his heart and said, ‘This is how you know you’re going to win’.
I am just so heartsick about this. Mitt and all of us worked so hard for the election.
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I would say I was pretty shocked at well. I felt sure he was going to win...
I now fully grasp the factual evidence, RINOS are the death nails to winning national elections, but the STUPID party is too STUPID to understand this! All you who said stick to your principles, and I said ABO because I want to save my country, I thank you for at least trying.
Well, like many of us, he believed Americans would see the light.
But now...there`s no light to see.
Didn’t see it coming...shocked.
Yup that’s the trouble with the GOPe.
corruption... Romney didn’t anticipate the level of voter fraud and corruption in the system
He couldn’t poll the voting machines.
Fwiu some blue districts had the exact same vote counts for the dem state leg as they did for zero. That is impossible.
Election hacked
I waited 3 hours in line to vote, I had hope. Lets be honest with ourselves. We ran Donnie and Marie against Al Capones mob. This was too important an election to let this happen. I blame the oldline GOP.
One this board, I resisted the nomination of ‘the mitten’ with hundreds of others. My picks crashed and burned early on for a number of reasons but Newt and Mitt were the pair it boiled down to. I would guess that of those, the majority here supported Newt. I did not because Newt is no conservative - research him and bypass his selected clips and campaign snuggling with conservatives - he's no friend of the Constitution or individualism (BTW, if you're going to write a counter-screed defending Newt, don't waste your time on me). Many times I asserted that I wouldn't vote for either of them when it came down to it.
Well, I did.
There. It's out. I voted for Mitt. I'm not proud of it but I did it to buy time knowing full well that we're still going over the cliff but we'd do so at a moderate and lawful 55 mph rather than having a RAT at the wheel doing 120 mph.
Pragmatism for sure. Also, I'm used to voting for losers and have done so all my life. Living in MN I've probably done more than my share. Truth is, the pubbie party isn't really my party but it serves a purpose as long as it retards socialism.
Some folks, however, are not as ‘pragmatic’ or compromising. I laud them. I also wish that I didn't crawl through broken glass every election to vote for weenies that I know are going to cave with the first huff and puff of the RATs. I salute the principled voters who stood aside and voted their conscience and voted for 3rd party candidates (not the dopes that stayed home however; they're just weenies, too).
These principled voters, though, may have cost the election. I'm willing to guess that when it's all said and done and analysed to death, the margin needed to turn the tide was off tilting at windmills and smooching with a ‘pure’ lover. Fine, I've done the same in a snit many times and can point no finger of condemnation. In fact, what has happened is only inevitable anyway and genuine conservatives with history know this to be true.
Our foundations cannot withstand an immoral and corrupt political class with a complicit electorate, reckless government spending, selfish citizens focused on benefits, a flood of immigrants with alien sensibilities and aid dependence and, most of all, a weakening and apostate (c)hurch that flounders about in doing ‘good works’ and hasn't a clue or care about repentance and brokenness before our God and Creator.
I have worked all of my adult life to avoid this day. I'm am not distraught or afraid, though. Because I have seen this hour (like zillions of conservatives) and I have lived in such a way as to avoid its impacts to a large degree. I am not an island nor do I have a bunker. I am, to varying degrees, trying to apprehend the sovereignty of God and what that means in real, practical terms of life. For one, it does not mean that my defenders are in DC or with a stockpile of weaponry. Like food, the physical realm is needed but it should never rule and is bound to enslave the lives of those who are captive to it. Same with alcohol or prepping or a thousand and one self-sufficient philosophies. Of course, I eat. I have a beer once in a while and I have some firearms. I would defend my life or family, too, but I have found a much greater defender and provider.
Simply put, Christ is my answer.
Yeah, I know. You've heard that from all kinds of losers and people who run from reality into religion. Truth is, I hate religion and run from it too. So did Christ.
What is missing from the lives of most ‘believers’ is the constant need to be broken and willingness to live out the revealed will of God already given to us in Scripture. It leads to faith, not false hope or confidence in self. It leads to family harmony instead of the paranoid ‘us against them’ syndrome. It leads to giving with confidence in God's provision and, yes, that means we also work diligently for our bread. In short, what we have seen and are about to experience is nothing new. History is rife with collapsing societies and mayhem. It is also full of men and women who are willing to take their faith to another level and give themselves to God's care wherever that may be.
Yes, Christians are dying around the world. Like the Iranian pastor, though, many are willing to do so. We may be spared, we may not. Work for your bread and share with brothers and sisters in need. Strive for Holiness in your lives and homes and remember that our lives here are only prologue.
Look, Obama votes had been bought and counted for since the Stimulus money could be accounted for.
We all thought ACORN disappeared, but no, they just operated in the dark. Together with Unions, they have delivered the ‘goods’.
Bottom line......;3 million pubbies stayed home, Romneys ground game stunk and he never went after Bam after charges of murder, felonies and Bain Cap.
The reason Obama won was spiritual. I don’t hate Mormons but they don’t hear from God!
Evangelical Christians stayed home and didn’t vote.
If you can’t figure out why we lost you are a freakin’ moron!!!!