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Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job
Red State ^ | November 9, 2012 | Ben Howe

Posted on 11/09/2012 6:19:37 PM PST by upbeat5

If you spend your time watching politics and haven’t been hiding in a deep depression since Tuesday, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about “ORCA.” According to the Washington Post, ORCA “was designed as a first-of-its-kind tool to employ smartphones to mobilize voters, allowing them to microtarget which of their supporters had gone to the polls.”

There is now widespread condemnation of the program as being sloppy and poorly deployed.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: con; consultant; job; orca; romney; romneycampaign
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And the beat goes on and on and on. Makes me sick!
1 posted on 11/09/2012 6:19:46 PM PST by upbeat5
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To: upbeat5

Fact is GOP voters should not have to be contacted to vote PERIOD


2 posted on 11/09/2012 6:24:02 PM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob

Who in this country didn’t know that Nov. 6th was election day? Many states had early voting as well. This is just a stupid excuse.


3 posted on 11/09/2012 6:26:07 PM PST by Catsrus (WANT)
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To: upbeat5
Pat Caddell -- the Democratic pollster who was a regular on Fox News during this campaign and really thought Romney would win this thing -- was on the radio today, and he was absolutely livid about some of the back-room nonsense that was apparently going on in the GOP campaign.

He said pretty openly that this campaign was little more than an opportunity for GOP "strategists" and "consultants" (he mentioned Karl Rove in particular) to make a lot of money from the hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the Romney campaign and the RNC during this election cycle.

4 posted on 11/09/2012 6:26:38 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: upbeat5

“..first-of-its-kind tool..”

At least the beta test was done on an application that wasn’t critical.


5 posted on 11/09/2012 6:28:00 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: upbeat5

Priebus needs to go, this whole debacle is on him.


6 posted on 11/09/2012 6:29:21 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: upbeat5

“Consult” = “Con” + “Insult”
-Scott Adams


7 posted on 11/09/2012 6:30:57 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Alberta's Child

This I believe. Moderates running the Romney campaign made no real effort to attract Conservatives. ABO was not enough.


8 posted on 11/09/2012 6:31:02 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Alberta's Child
Another source that closely studied the Obama campaigns GOTV efforts as compared to ORCA said bluntly that “the Obama training manuals made ORCA look like drunken monkey slapped together a powerpoint”

Harsh statement. Sad to see them turn on one another.

9 posted on 11/09/2012 6:33:00 PM PST by Orange1998 (Please DO NOT PRESS CTRL W)
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To: uncbob

Yeah I would agree, at the end of the day, this still says a lot about the general public. Obama’s job performance should have been enough to elect a random draw from a phone book. I sure didn’t need anyone to tell me to vote.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 6:33:16 PM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: Alberta's Child

I heard him, too. He was livid.


11 posted on 11/09/2012 6:33:36 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RginTN
I can also see why Rove was acting like a crazy man late on Election Night, ranting about the media's call for Obama in Ohio when he insisted Romney could still win. He was watching his career evaporate before his eyes. The Republican Party may be rank amateurs in a lot of respects, but once you are associated with a losing campaign in an election that they really should have won, you're usually persona non grata after that.
12 posted on 11/09/2012 6:39:16 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: upbeat5

This explains th lack of ads. We all wondered where all the Romney campaign funds were going.


13 posted on 11/09/2012 6:39:28 PM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Alberta's Child

Everyone associated with the GOP for the past 4 years, anyone associated with the Bushes needs to be gone.


14 posted on 11/09/2012 6:40:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Alberta's Child

Why don’t these Morons use a Guy like Dick Morris?
He was a clinton campaign advisor...He understands the left’s mind set....and I am impressed with His political
number crunching....He is at least as good as Rove.

and the best part is He Hates the left Now....
someone needs to put him on a “retainer” for 2016....


15 posted on 11/09/2012 6:43:01 PM PST by LtKerst
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To: Orange1998
Harsh statement

Yeah. Well, we had a harsh result.

The only question that matters here is, is this accurate, and if so, how to fix it for next time.

16 posted on 11/09/2012 6:44:22 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: upbeat5

Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.

And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,

This election was stolen fraudulent.

Romney won Bambi lost.

Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!


17 posted on 11/09/2012 6:45:37 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: upbeat5

Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.

And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,

This election was stolen fraudulent.

Romney won Bambi lost.

Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!


18 posted on 11/09/2012 6:45:37 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: upbeat5

Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.

And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,

This election was stolen fraudulent.

Romney won Bambi lost.

Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!


19 posted on 11/09/2012 6:45:37 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: upbeat5

Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.

And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,

This election was stolen fraudulent.

Romney won Bambi lost.

Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!


20 posted on 11/09/2012 6:45:40 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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