Posting a thoughtful response in FR’s is an exercize in frustratration and futility mostly because of the vapid responses that pile on to sujects like these. None the less I’ll try.
I live in a semi battle ground state which did have some targeting tv and print promotion. If you live in a blue state there was little expenditure and in a red state pretty much the same. It is what was in those messages those print and tv ads contained.
Expecting voters to know what’s going on with their reliance on MSM is just part of our great loss. While there are examples of fraud which may close up the gap, the gap is too big to blame the loss on fraud ...Expecting GOP E’s to address media bias is another but here is where the fault lies..
Romney ran a “Johnny One Note Campaign”. Used a poison dart blow gun when he should have used a cannon loaded with grape shot because he had pleanty of stuff he could fill that cannon barrel with..
He failed to hammer away on what will happen when Obama gets returned; The Obama 2013/14 Tax Increases. The impact of Obama’s energy policies..(a socialist construct never branded as such) and a bread and butter issue which reaches every into “demographics” pocketbook...The impact of Supreme Court Appointments.. 18,000 new IRS agents and on and on. Including rampant corruption . Some were very briefly touched most weren’t and Benghazi was left to languish. Then there is Obama’s personal extravagance and behavior refusing to visit Nashville after its disaster showing up at New Orleans after Mitt visited it.
Instead we got a sales pitch on executive ability but not the reason why one should toss the old model and buy his.
In addition Rove who I understand was handling the Charter PAC senate campaign played games. His material never warned voters that IF OBAMA GETS REELECTED AND SENATE RETAINED OBAMACARE AND ALL THE TAX INCREASES THAT GO WITH IT WILL NEVER GET REPEALED Let alone tie into or cover the formentioned grape shot which would have perhaps changed that body. I don’t recall any of that material directed toward that fact.
Finally Romneys’s campaign staff didn’t believe the polls which turned out were dead on. Not setting up focus groups which could have looked into what’s going on with those polls. Even going out to local eateries and bars and eavesdrop into conversations and pick up on topics being discussed.(chat rooms twitter too susceptible to manipulation)
Our local small population (-8000) rural blue county GOP had at the outset good and growing attendence at their meetings 50 plus. At the meeting the Thursday before the election only about a dozen people showed up and I knew we were in trouble .
Nuts...This loss is inexcuseable, while I trully don’t believe Mitt Romney would never continence losing, I’m begining to wonder if many GOPE’s didn’t want to see O care go ..
Well said. Romney played above the fray but it was up to Rove etc (like the SwiftBoaters who sunk Kerry) to play to emotions like the DNC booing of God, Obama’s support for gay marriage, likely SC appointments etc. Instead, Rove etc sang the same tune as Romney. An superfluous xercise in futility.
Well said. Romney played above the fray but it was up to Rove etc (like the SwiftBoaters who sunk Kerry) to play to emotions like the DNC booing of God, Obama’s support for gay marriage, likely SC appointments etc. Instead, Rove etc sang the same tune as Romney. A superfluous exercise in futility.