Agree. Romney actually came close enough to winning that the botched implementation of ORCA can explain why he failed in critical states without realizing it. There were 30,000 volunteers staged for GOTV. They were overwhelmingly located in the critical states like OH VA and FL.
Also consider that Obama was acting like he knew he was about to lose. He now seems pretty shocked that he won (I think his emotional breakdown at his thank-you event with campaign staff was genuine)
I’ve done big ERP rollouts. SAP and Peoplesoft. It usd to be that the average SAP implementation took 24 months and had a 65% chance of failure necessitating an effort restart (companies, after having learned lots of expensive lessons in failing tended to get it right the second time around).
ORCA seems to me to have been too complex and ambitious ... Classic “big bang” implementation, which are incredibly risky and not best practices ( it’s better to evolve existing systems or implement incrementally — that’s why Agile and similar methodologies are on the rise, waterfall on the decline)
The failure here isn’t really with ORCA, but rather with the apparant lack of a fallback operation. That’s just plain nuts, but not indicative of griffer consultants using the campaign as a cash cow. Romney did too well for that to have been it.
I agree and agree with you about Obama’s acting role. The simple answer is fraud big time.