>>Karl Rove has never lost an election.<<
Get real. The election of 2000 was nothing to brag about. Bush was up 20 and ended up losing the popular count. Yes, we know they didn't count military votes, but they did count illegal aliens. We know that the media suppressed Republican voting in Florida. We know Bush probably should have won the popular count, but the fact remains that even with Nader pulling more votes from Gore, Bush needed the electoral college to win. If that counts as an electioneering successm than the plain crashing into the terminal in "Airplane" constitutes a clean landing.
The opposition cheated and we still won. We had vote supression in the Panhandle. We still won. Gore lost his home state, helping us win. The Evangelicals stayed home due to the rumors that W wouldn't fight abortion and the DUI dirty trick. We still won.If Gore had gotten a total state recount, W would have had an extra 1600 votes or so, IIRC.
In 2002, we smoked the Donks all across the board and all the way down the tickets in a majority of states. We did this from lessons learned in 2000 and a ground game that we are using again this time.
Every Presidential election needs the Electoral College, BTW.
Rove is a genius; I didn't say he was Superman. He beats anything the other guys have and everyone else we have. He not only got a Republican elected as Governor in TX, he did it twice, something unheard of. By 2000, a strong Democrat state was a strong Republican state.
The only strategist the GOP ever had who equalled Rove was Lee Atwater. To this day, Democrats conflate the two and both give them fits, even though Lee has been gone 13 years.
YYMV.