Posted on 01/28/2013 4:07:57 AM PST by CutePuppy
How the Republican candidate lost the presidential election.
< snip > ..... [Republicans] are concocting explanations and excuses for what they see as Mitt Romney's snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
They should realize that it was economics that sank Romney. His crucial problem was his campaign's failure to make a sufficiently convincing case on the money issues.
Most postmortems have focused on the demographics of the defeat. ..... < snip >
But none of Romney's demographic defeats are as significant as the electoral potential Romney missed on money issues.
Election Day exit polling by Edison Media Research/Mitofsky International for the National Election Pool included three questions that explain a significant part of Romney's weakness.
The first question was on the state of the economy. Amazingly, 23% of voters rated the economy "excellent" or "good." Of these, 90% voted for Obama. Of the 77% of voters rating the economy "not so good" or "poor," 38% supported Obama.
The second question was, "Who would better handle the economy?" The answers amounted to a virtual tie. To the question, 48% said Obama was more capable, and 98% of that group voted for the president. On the other side, 49% chose Romney as more capable, and 94% of these voted for Romney.
The final important money question was, "Who would better handle the federal budget deficit?" Again, it was almost a tie, with 47% choosing Obama to handle the deficit, and 98% of that group voting for him. Of the 49% who chose Romney for deficit management, 95% gave him their votes.
Considering the weak economy, the exploding spending, and huge deficits of the past four years, it's amazing that Romney could not make a better case for managing the economy and the deficit .....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.barrons.com ...
Republicans since Reagan have run on “We Suck Less”, and that will not work.
Well S Palin understood the economic issue early on and told everybody what it was: CRONY CAPITALISM !!!!!!!!!!!!
But the elites and pundits look down their noses at Palin and the establishment went down again.
How the Republican candidate lost the presidential election:
When we run a Republican who loses, let us know. 2008 and 2012, we ran a Democratic lite candidate at best. Romney was the worst possible person to run in 2012. He is vile and liberal as anyone we could have chosen. He easily lost the election because he does NOT have a core.
But the elites and pundits look down their noses at Palin and the establishment went down again.
You're darned right they did. Cronyism is how they make their money and Sarah became an existential threat when she correctly dropped that hammer on the head of that nail.
But the elites and pundits look down their noses at Palin and the establishment went down again.
You're darned right they did. Cronyism is how they make their money and Sarah became an existential threat when she correctly dropped that hammer on the head of that nail.
I never once heard Romney talk about the economy! Its like it wasn’t on his political radar.
No wonder he lost!
I often heard Romney say that he had a plan and that he knew how to create jobs (he had done it before). He said that repeatedly.
But, with no follow-through at all, I think his pablum was not sufficient to close a sale. In the general election, I don't think he campaigned like he wanted the office. Maybe he just thought it was his for the taking, because Obama was such a failure. Doesn't matter. Romney didn't do what he needed to do, and he lost.
NOTE: I didn't stay home. I voted for him. But I never liked him at all.
I didn't say "Republican" I said "Republican candidate".
There is no disputing Romney was that.
Romney couldn’t have won with God as his VP he is part of the problem not the solution.
As to Crony Capitalism, when one looks at the relationship between many large Corps and Government, then indeed it is the enemy of free markets, entrepreneurship and free enterprise.
Romney had image problems. So did the Republican party. It's possible that a different campaign strategy could have made the election closer, but the odds were against a Republican victory. The old hard to break Republican "lock" on the electoral college has been replaced by a hard to break Democrat lock.
Maybe another Republican could have won, but the candidate who could have done better than Romney did wasn't in the race. If that nonexistent ideal candidate existed and ran or if the Romney campaign were more aggressive, it might have made the election closer, and stopped a lot of the "mandate" talk short, though.
” The one common theme I see in most flavors of the Republicans was that last year would be an easy win for any R candidate, a fatally flawed assumption. “
Romney: “ Vote for me,because I’m a rich banker. Don’t hate me because you are out of work! 47% of you are just mooches anyway......”
Uh.....never mind
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My wife, who sees things very simply put it this way:
“Romney never fought back!! He just let Obama make him look like a wimp.”
I concur.
Even during the debates, where Obama looked like a deer in the headlights, and actually called on Candy Crowly for help; Romney just backed off.
Hell, he should have handed Jughead his balls on a platter, several times.
But no. We have to be “polite” for some reason.
Well, I don’t believe in being polite to people who are ruining my country, and trying to take away my rights.
Maybe we should demand that OUR candidates start adopting that same attitude - or they don’t become our candidates.
The ONLY time I saw him fight back was against our other candidates.
” Even during the debates, where Obama looked like a deer in the headlights, and actually called on Candy Crowly for help; Romney just backed off.”
Any decent candidate would have knocked Obama out right away.
Obama was an even easier target than Carter....which shows how incompetent Romney was. And also how cowardly he was.
“...And also how cowardly he was....”
Afraid of going after him too hard, being accused of being “RAYYYYYCIST!!!”
Yeah, I kinda got that impression, actually.
Grown men, afraid of word that’s overused by perpetually outraged immature fools. It’s pathetic.
I seriously miss the WWII generation...
” I seriously miss the WWII generation...”
Like my dad, long gone
HA, that was pretty much my take.
‘ Hey you loser, us rich bankers F..ed-up the economy with bad loans so only we know how to fix it (more bad loans+ cut my taxes). Trust me. I am just like you , except very rich, mormon and liberal, but everything else is the same.
This message was paid for by Mitt$$$Romneyfor POTUS’
What could go wrong?
He was like a lion against Newt and Perry, but when O rubbed his belly he purred like a kitten.
Disgusting imagery, SOL... but accurate
Great example, Romney beat the crap out of the others over immigration, then he gets into a debate with Obama flips and says he'd consider amnesty in some circumstances.
O promises Hispanics amnesty and Romney has his head up his butt.
Hispanics tuned out that part about Mitt flipping to a 'compassionate conservative' and Dems made sure they kept hearing what he said in the primaries.
A disaster, But we kept reading here that he was winning.
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