What amazes me is that the effort of the very capable capitalist was so inferior to that of the low-life welfare statists/socialists. How can that happen? Rather embarrassing.
Earth to the GOP.....Most US software companies are run by HUGE HONKING BAY AREA LEFTIES!!!!
If you want it done right, outsource it to India. At least they’ll do what you tell them if you pay them well enough.
Message gets out the vote, NOT a blizzard of phone calls!
Living in a swing state, I can testify from both ends.
I was saturated with nightly phone calls from candidates and the various GOP groups wanting contributions.
As a precinct captain, this made my GOTV calls very unwelcome, as there is no distinction among the varieties of “political calls”.
More undecided voters are likely to sit it out, rather than support those who harrass them nightly for weeks on end.
I still think the fraud was overwhelming and Romney would have had a hard time overcoming it but...
what astounds me is that, if nothing else, Romney’s biggest selling point was that of a competent businessman and manager.
Unbelievable.
It’s like someone saying, “Pick me, pick me, I’m the fastest runner.”
So he’s picked and then he shows up at the race without his running shoes.
Of course, just like John McCain, these millionaires just go back to their comfortable lives and screw the rest of us that have to live with their incompetence.
They can’t be bothered to actually fight for us.
I think it’s likely too late at this point, but if the GOP became/was a populist party that ran on low immigration levels, jobs for Americans & getting tough on trade & off-shoring they would have captured many more white voters in the upper mid-west & Penn. The GOP message these days is a mess.
I was expecting another Chris Christie thread.
Most people hate to admit they were wrong. Thus, it’s hard to unseat incumbents. You have to convince a lot of people to admit (at least to themslves) that they made a mistake.
I think a lot of this “our get out the vote campaign wasn’t good” analysis is off base.
Karl Rove does the math in his recent column: Obama got 91% of this 2008 totals, Romney got 98% of McCains. Who had the superior GOTV campaign?
Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.
It’s just that Obama’s 2008 victory was so large that he had millions of votes to lose and still end up in the winners circle at the end of the contest.
Another thing. How does somebody spend six years running and lose? And lose to a loser like Bathhouse Barry?
I mean really. You have great wealth to hire and consult with the best of the best.
How do you not have a detailed war-plan down to the precinct level with nothing taken for granted.
Six years, money is no object, and you really, really want it and you still lose?
We told them that playing nice with the media and marxist wouldn’t work. And then they can’t even complete the most basic tasks of GOTV.
This is pretty frustrating and disappointing. Romney’s strength was his executive ability and that includes hiring competent people and delegating authority. I’m not trying to say he is personally responsible, but we know where the buck stops. Someone failed, that’s for sure, and these are rookie mistakes, i.e. any idiot could see the value of doing a dry-run to get the bugs out before E-day.
Maybe we’d be far better off with a bunch of Soccer Moms from Wasilla running things than these inept political operatives who obviously don’t even have common sense.
This is tactics. The best tactics in the world can’t overcome bad strategy. You have to be strong at all levels, and strategically, the Republicans aren’t.
“Understand yourself and understand your opponent, and in one hundred battles, you will not be defeated.”
We just lost a battle. We must not understand ourselves or our opponents or both.
Incredible failure. Gives some insight into Romney’s investment business tactics that did not translate to running for office.
Bump......
Further, it seems that in the months leading up to November 6, the legal-team effort was walled off from much of the poll-watching effort. These efforts should be integrated. In my past work on roving legal teams, I was given ahead of time the names and mobile numbers of the poll watchers in each of the six precincts I was covering. A volunteer should not just be sent out by himself to a polling place with no sense of support and no idea whom he could turn to for help. Understandably, without any support line, many poll watchers went home when their efforts to address the Orca meltdown were unsuccessful. There were many important precincts in swing states that ended up without a Romney poll watcher because of this.
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BINGO - THAT IS HOW IT ALWAYS USED TO BE AND IT WORKED.
This year was horrible!
“How to Prevent Another Orca Flop (Why the Republican GOTV effort failed to match the Democrat’s)”
Next time, try having a product that is more appealing to the customers.