I don’t think people looked at Obama and Romney and said “Romney is too liberal, I will vote for Obama instead”.
I don’t think people looked at Obama and Romney and said “Romney is too liberal, I will vote for Obama instead”.
I agree. Mitt lost on tactics, not performance. I give him high marks individually, as he was nearly error free and became very effective this fall. Tactically, they made several major strategic errors. One was assuming the base was going to show up because of Obama dislike. The campaign needed to woo the base, give a major speech on the religious infringement of the Obamacare mandate on churches. They needed to welcome Ron Paul voters rather than expel them. They needed to bring everyone in united to change course.
I have said earlier, and it sticks in my brian, there was a high level campaign guy at the convention who said their strategy wasn’t to take on Obama’s record because people know the record. They erred...and needed to hammer him relentlessly and ties poor economic numbers directly to his decisions....point to job slowdown immediately after Obamacare. Show 20 year graphs of employment to put his ‘job creation’ in perspective. Obama got away with a crappy economy, because exit polls showed he convinced the voting population that we had come a long way. We haven’t and things are going to get worse. What a lost opportunity...and one we are going to have a hard time recovering from.
No they didn’t but when people are offered the choice between pretty liberal and liberal, they will chose the liberal especially the one they’re familiar with.
They did not think he was too liberal, they liked what Obama was telling them, which in some cases was not liberal. Like for example, telling us for the 1 millionth time, he killed Osama Bin Laden. Not something the liberals wanted done. But to a 20 something who plays video games all day, hey, that was a good thing.