Remember when all the top consultants went to work on the Romney campaign. They had a secret get out the vote hi tech app code named Orca. However, these fantastic, best in class consultants never quite got around to a full stress test of the system plus there was a total lack of coordination or instruction on using the app. Orca rolled over and died on Election Day.
These are the sort of experts too proud to work on the Trump campaign.
I absolutely remember Orca. That incident also said volumes about Romney’s supposed “competence”.
Good point. I would add that if Mike Murphy, Ed Rollins, and Steve Schmidt are unavailable, that's net net a win for Trump.
That bears repeating. Romney's supposedly great system was totally useless. Even before their main servers crashed the Republican volunteers at the polling places could not keep up with the arriving voters because of the poor user interface design of the system. Depending on some brand new, never tested software system to work on the first time it is used for a critical task is a very poor strategic and tactical decision. No need to hire guys who think like that.
Instead, the Trump campaign needs to move towards a totally distributed approach - like we had in the old days. Simple things like volunteers who call their neighbors, and lists of local supporters. Forget distant call centers, annoying robocalls, complicated software, and most of the other ideas of the supposedly expert campaign managers. Use the best strategies from the left that worked in their get out the vote campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and add our own.
Freepers should develop our own get out the vote operation in support of conservative candidates and our constitutional rights in parallel with whatever the parties do.