Posted on 11/12/2012 2:19:14 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
Worse still, Ekdahl told Business Insider that the Romney campaign failed to provide poll-watching volunteers in his region — Jacksonville, Florida, a key Republican city in a major swing state — with proper credentials and accurate voter strike lists, rendering them unable to perform their duties even if the ORCA app had worked.
In interviews with Business Insider last week, sources close to the Romney campaign confirmed Ekdahl's account, and described a technological undertaking that failed at every level. According to several of these sources, ORCA was developed by a small, isolated tech team working under Romney's political team. These sources told Business Insider that the product was never properly beta-tested, and wasn't revealed to the rest of the campaign — including the digital team — until the week of the election.
Most people on the campaign "weren't that surprised" by ORCA's failure, said one Republican communications strategist close to the Romney campaign.
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Romney got about 30% more votes than the tally shows, judging by the House voting counts.
This is where the election went. The machines were programmed to dump Romney and West votes.
Romney won Ohio, so don’t give us this second guessing. Fraud took his win and hid it.
Just inexcusable. Heads should roll. Fighting stupid is just not an option.
These reports kinda make you wonder how Romney ran his businesses. Seems with all his experience running companies, that this would be easy for him to manage and make sure it was successful. I feel sorry for the Romney’s though. They are good people.
Inside hatchet job by someone. Campaign infiltrated.
I agree with you and I think we saw early on that this was coming. He was conservative when it benefited him and moderate when it did not. There was no substance or depth. He wanted nothing to do with the Tea Party...did you ever hear him say Tea Party?...or Palin. He does not agree with them on alot of what they believe in. He tried being all things to all people but could not pull it off. Many I know did not vote for him as much as they voted against President Obama. That is never a good recipe for winning in politics.
Should have not dismissed the hoards of fans of Ron Paul either. I think they just stayed home. He also never went on conservative talk radio-a huge audience. Guess he was only going for the undecideds-if there is any such things.
I agree with you. It hurt him but he could not bring himself to even say her name..or Tea Party. I just asked another poster, did you ever hear him say Tea Party? He agreed with nothing they stand for. Or Palin. It did hurt him in the end.
Palin bailed because she was blackmailed, just as John Roberts and John Boehner are being blackmailed.
Palin didn’t have the fat bank account it would take to fight the crap stories that the blackmailers were ready to use.
Google Dan Centinello. (I’m on an IPad and can’t put the picture up.). That’s your ORCA mastermind. Enough said.
To this day, no one knows what Romney's politics are, and no one knows why he was obsessed with being president.
The man has been in politics since his teens and has spent the last 20 years and 55 million of his own dollars trying to get into the white house, and no one knows why, or even what his political reasons were, what his agenda is.
The man is ego driven, and has no center, no convictions, he is a salesman of Mitt, (not Mittism as in a political view, there isn't any such thing).
The election was lost in the coding of the voting machines, that dumped a percentage of Romney votes systemacically.
He won in votes, but lost by not protecting those votes after they were cast. This likely happened to McCain too.
What really irritates me is that Romney completely underestimated the Tea Party. He thought with their passion for their beliefs, who else were they going to vote for? He was the closest they were going to get. But he completely dismissed them and all they believe. So they never really got behind them. Who else were they going to vote for? It turned out many of them voted for no one. They knew he did not support them and would not follow through with any promises he made if elected. Again, no depth.
No it is not. And all the people on FR that said ‘politics over principle’ had better either ‘come to Jesus’ or just go away.
Many of us said you can’t serve two masters and were trashed for it. The result of Mitt laying both sides of the fence advanced liberalism by huge margins. The result of supposed conservatives fawning over him in the final weeks advanced liberalism by huge margins. It is one thing to vote for him over Obama as a last resort (though I disagree with the idea), but most of conservativedom went full moonbat painting him as something he never was. Just as the Greek column Obama was painted into something he never was.
If we cannot form a party and back people with conservative values, we deserve what we get. And if we do and lose anyway, then the country is well and truly done.
But unless we quit living in a Rovian fantasy that the GOP is the way truth and light and acting for ourselves, we ARE well and truly done. Personally as well as politically.
Look at Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Oracle, etc., and you'd probably see that 95% of their employees' campaign contributions went to 0bambi. I hope I'm wrong.
I can vouch for this as well. I logged onto the website to make phone calls a couple of weeks before the end. First call, I got an answering machine and the script said don’t leave a message. The way the system worked, however, you can’t hang up, only the “callee” can hang up. So what was I supposed to do? I dunno. Considering that an answering machine is of course mostly what you get when you call people out of the blue these days, basically the system was useless. I emailed the campaign about, no response of course. Lame.
>> “I like John Kasich and Marco Rubio.” <<
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Two establishment sell-outs.
They are the essence of our problems.
We need to get started NOW on the voter fraud and making sure the military overseas get their ballots in time. Not the week before the election.
I agree with your statement that many did not vote FOR Romney but AGAINST “The Divine One.” That is how I voted; plus the fact that my vote for Romney in California was largely a protest vote. I never thought Romney would carry California.
They are the essence of our problems.
Pfffft.
Prominent Pro-life fiscal conservatives from swing states.
You've always been one bizarro dude.
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