The reason politicians do what they do is like generals trying to learn from the last war. They don’t understand that if they fight the next one like they think they should have fought the last one they will lose it, too. Axel rod didn’t suffer from this limitation. He knew it would come down to Ohio, Va, Fla. he also knew about how much fraud would be needed in just which places and he knew just how to keep enough GOP votes out to overwhelm his fraud. Hence we had long lines with LOWER numbers here in parts of Va. “Computer problems”. Yeah. Axel rod was also unencumbered by integrity so it was all really very simple. Like all men who are great in their own minds he shared his “vision” with a few folks (say Nate Silver, Daily Kos) and the rest, they say, is history. Out of Daley’s Chicago where even Rats acknowledge fraud put JFK in the White House we get Axelrod, who has taken it to “the next level”.
For the GOP, they're still trying to figure out how they won the Civil War. Don't tell them there have been others.
What was needed was a General Grant in this one. Throw more people at it and more and more and more. Then you win.
Romney tried to play it with drones and lost.