Posted on 11/07/2012 7:46:24 AM PST by jilliane
4. With overall voter turnout down, shockingly Romney got 2 million less votes than McCain! If Romney got as many votes as McCain, 59.6 million, he could have won.
The story of this election is voter turnout!
We have only ourselves to blame, then...
Pray for America!
To expand on your point, we need a professional ground game. Historically, the GOP effort has been based on volunteers. Unfortunately, Ed and Gladys handing out donuts and flyers at the “Victory” headquarters (or leisurely knocking on doors over the weekend) are no substitute for trained, paid staffers who are on the street every day.
Case in point. A friend of mine is an IT manager for a major bank; he works from home in Newport News, VA. Over the last two weeks of the campaign, field reps from the Obama campaign knocked on his door no less than four times, asking if he planned to vote, needed a ride to the polls, etc. By comparison, he received zero contact from the GOP during the same period.
Volunteers are great and they can make major contributions to a campaign. But if the GOP is really serious about a ground game, they need full-time paid staff—and a plan that extends well beyond the election season.
One more note: I was told that elements of Obama’s field staff never left Ohio after the 2008 campaign; they’ve been in place for the past four years, working for Democrats, gathering data and performing other tasks. With that level of organization and effort, it’s no wonder their turnout was much larger than we expected.
“The GOP got beat because it hates Conservatives and their values, it gave its base a flip-flopping Massachusetts RINO candidate whom they could not support without holding their noses.”
Nothing to add to your post, it is perfect as is.
I just bears repeating.
You nailed that. Democratic enthusiasm was down, but so was Republican enthusiasm compared to when Palin was on the ticket. No offense to Ryan, but he is no Palin.
Don’t ping me on Mormon bashing responses. I’m not in to that.
I was responding to your anti-Evangelical post.
All Christian churches agree that Mormonism is not Christian, but the exit polls will reveal that Evangelicals voted overwhelmingly, massively FOR the Mormon, and that Catholics voted AGAINST the Mormon.
They could just randomly flip-flop places on the ticket. Given these two, that would be very appropriate.
You got it perfectly right. A milquetoast candidate was handed to us because we were told he was “electable”. Didn’t we already try this in 2008? No, stupid, don’t believe your lying lies, they said. We are the experts.
So if Obama got 10 million less votes than 2008 and Romney got less votes that McCain did in 2008, what happened to the “record turnout”? Was the “record turnout” a myth or are we missing over 20 million votes? You can’t tell me that 25% of the voters skipped the presidential race.
I don’t mean to go all tin foil hat here, but the math just doesn’t work out.
BTW, presidential races tend to draw more people to vote than mid-term elections. The aggregate fall off in 2010 was 45 million ~ those are people who voted in 2008 but not in 2010.
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