[justiceseeker93]

Never heard of this Romney campaign guru Stuart Stevens before, but I can almost guarantee that he came from the RINO wing of the party, so as to be ideologically synergistic with his candidate as much as possible. That being said, Martin Knight, the author of the posted piece, is venting a bit too much about the performance of the Romney team in the last election. Although the campaign made its share of mistakes, notably the failure to make Benghazi an issue against Obama in the final weeks and the reluctance to attack Obama's sleazy background, there were also the successes of the candidate's debate performances and the drawing of large enthusiastic crowds to events down the stretch. Compared to the McCain campaign performance four years earlier, this was an upgrade.

It would appear that Democrat election fraud and cheating, targeted to the populous Dem controlled cities and counties in the swing states, may have been the decisive factor. The national GOP as a party was negligent in failing to plan for, devise and implement a counter-strategy to the systemic violations of the integrity of the election system perpetrated by the opposition - especially considering that they should have been forewarned by what had occurred in 2008.

[NYer]

I suspected a problem when the RNC called early in summer asking for contributions. Their plea was based on "changing the House of Representatives". Huh? What about the presidency? No response. The real shocker came when I learned, after the election, that Romney never wanted to be president! What!!!

The full picture began to emerge. The GOP never anticipated a presidential win but had pinned all their hopes on other candidates that might alter the Senate and House of Representatives. What sort of party runs a presidential candidate who does not want the job!!! I'm done with them.

[muawiyah]

How do you prepare or 2008 when McCain got 4 million fewer votes than Bush just 4 years earlier?

Obama got a record number of votes that year but not at all an unusual amount compared to Bush four years earlier.

What it looks like is McCain and Romney both failed to get normal growth ~ and instead not only lost normal growth, they lost some of the core Republican voters.

That would be, of course, the Rockefeller wing ~ Romney's own peeps! They just didn't show up and they didn't bother telling people they weren't going to do that, and nobody in those states went out and sought to find more Republicans in a registration drive!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I think you’re on to something.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Impy]

“Do you believe, today, that much of the media is in the tank for Barack Obama?” Kurtz asked.

Stevens replied, “It’s not a yes or a no question. In the tank, I would say no. So, yes or no question, I would say no.”

Hmm is this guy a dimwit or what? I mean that's NOT REALLY A YES OR NO QUESTION but I'm gonna say YES.