[upbeat5]

And the beat goes on and on and on. Makes me sick!

[Tau Food]

I don’t know how anyone can simultaneously believe this story and also believe that Romney is a great business manager who knows how to get things done.

[Conservative Patriot86]

We should have gotten behind Newt! He would have truly moped the floor with obama in the debates and had a real landslide. Instead we had the fools of the Republican Party stick with Sanborem and Mittens until the bitter end and screwed us with the biggest non-conservative establishment candidate. That’s where we went wrong. I still cant understand how people couldn’t recognize Newt as the genius he is, God only knows what he could have done for our Country. I think of him as the modern Reagan. People were just too emotionally attached to the other two.

[socialism_stinX]

I don't buy all this stuff about consultants just profiteering off the Romney campaign. The last Gallup poll before the hurricane had Romney with a 5 point lead among likely voters. This poll was not part of a "con game". Rasmussen's last poll had the election close to tied in the popular vote. Something unusual and unexpected happened on election day that the pollsters absolutely did not expect to see, and I don't buy the argument that the election was stolen through vote fraud. Obama won by large margins in several of the swing states that were supposed to be very close, and he won by too many votes to explain that by fraud. It seems like the entire science and art of polling needs to be re-examined and revised by firms like Gallup and Rasmussen. They missed something big in this election and so did Romney's consultants.

In fairness to the Romney campaign (and speaking as a software developer), I’m sure they ran a very large number of tests on the Orca system. Clearly they needed to run even more tests. But it’s difficult to simulate the number of simultaneous users that you have on election day and there’s no possible way to simulate all the possible technical and user-related problems that can occur on election day. My take on this is that the GOP needs to use a simpler and less-sophisticated system next time that doesn’t rely so much on real-time data from field operatives with smart phones, but just gets the basic job done and enables volunteers to contact all the likely GOP voters.

[Darren McCarty]

I sent this to a consultant friend of mine. I can't repeat what he said. It was bleepity, bleep, bleep, followed by the word absolute and cluster with four additional letters. What a snowjob.

I will say that from what I saw, the lawyers for Romney group, at least locally, did a good job considering the Orca mess. We could have used more challengers, but they don't grow on trees.

[cherry]

I would have rather they formed an anti fraud program.....