So how did that Ryan pick work out? (A look at the numbers)

Hotair ^ | 08/17/2012 | Jazz Shaw

[icwhatudo]

Facts don’t matter. The pick of Biden hurt Obama in the polls, the pick of Palin helped McCain in the polls. I even joked on FR right after the election that they will try and convince us that Palin hurt the ticket. It was so laughable I took some heat for it. Now its repeated as fact over and over again in any article about picking a VP.

If Romney loses it will not be because he was a rino that did not attract enough support from the conservative base-it will be because Ryan was a horrible pick of an ideologue and the GOP must moderate.

[Joe 6-pack]

New Peter Gabriel song in 5....4....3....2....

[Poison Pill]

Intrade line up 4 pts. since the Ryan pick.

[vekzen]

President Axelrod and his minions are hard at work trying to invent a bimbo or racist connection to Ryan. Remember what happened to Cain?

[Individual Rights in NJ]

Speaking the truth.

Man, FR is abou the only place the truth exists these days.

Remember that show “Jericho”.....While I’d never wish that horror on any nation, a government functioning out of Cheyanne (sp?) would likely be much better than D.C.

[Pollster1]

Online Fundraising

* Donations: 124,800+
* Amount: $10,157,947
* Average Donation: $81
* % New Donors: 68%

How's Mitt faring in the social media and web world since the Ryan announcement?

* Site Traffic – Total: 2,000,000
* Mitt Romney Facebook: +510,000 — Now 4,360,000
* Mitt Romney Twitter: +54,000 — Now 861,000
* Paul Ryan Facebook: +860,000
* Paul Ryan Twitter: +118,500
* Volunteers 45,000+ sign up to volunteer online

That's lovely but irrelevant. The meaningful question is: How do those numbers compare with the week before Ryan was announced? I'm not saying Ryan was a bad choice - he's an amazingly capable choice that I would not have expected from Romney. These numbers just don't tell us whether the Ryan pick is actually helping. For that, Intrade is probably the best current information - so, yes, the Ryan pick is working so far.

[Fresh Wind]

[beenaround]

"If Romney loses it will not be because he was a rino that did not attract enough support from the conservative base-it will be because Ryan was a horrible pick of an ideologue and the GOP must moderate."

Except every sign points to an INCREASE in the Romney support as the base coalesces around him as was planned.

What many don't understand is Romney is a very, very successful business man and one thing a successful business must have is the ability to think both tactically and strategically. In the case of Ryan as his VP choice he has done both as it generated an instant charge to the campaign which the Left has been unable to diffuse. This is the tactical reason for the choice.

Strategically, the hoped for and I believe realized effect will be to carry the torch for reform in our quickly failing Social programs.

I don't know for sure of course who will win in Nov. At least not now but I do believe Ryan was not just a good choice but a brilliant one.

[beenaround]

It would be helpful to know the actual cash increase in this week after the pick of Ryan, versus the previous week or the same week in the previous month.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Romney raised $101 million in July. That's an average of $3.25+ million per day before Ryan.

[beenaround]

Thanks.

Do we know the average after his pick of Ryan?

[Sgt_Schultze]

I haven’t seen anything official. I do recall hearing a report that the Romney campaign raised over $3 million in the 24 hours after the naming of Ryan. If that’s true, then the pick is a wash WRT the previous month’s daily average.

[ottbmare]

That's lovely but irrelevant. The meaningful question is: How do those numbers compare with the week before Ryan was announced?

I would say, that's lovely but irrelevant. If those Facebookers are interested or even supportive of Ryan, that's fine, but if they're from Georgia, South Carolina, and Wyoming, they aren't important. The Presidency is won or lost in the Electoral College. Activity on Facebook and Twitter (which BTW is really a medium only for real wonks) does not translate into Electoral College votes.

[Cruising For Freedom]

They raised something like 7 million online on that weekend.

Prior to that, Romney’s large numbers had been coming from big money donors and fundraisers, not online small donations. So it is a big bump, because they weren’t raising anywhere near that amount online.

[beenaround]

I saw that as well. Thought there may have been later reporting. In any case we will see how he did in Aug by the end of the 1st week in Sept.

I believe the point well made is the obama campaign has had no comment on how the Ryan choice has impacted their own fund raising. Had it caused any increase whatsoever it would have led every news cast of the lib networks.

[Delhi Rebels]

...but that’s got to be a pretty encouraging set of numbers for America’s Comeback Team.

Similar numbers were rung up when Palin was announced as VP candidate in 2008, and she was unable to drag a lackluster top of the ticket into the winners circle.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Remember what happened to Cain?

Fortunately, Ryan is not a horndog with Clintonesque appetites like Cain was (is?).

[SeekAndFind]

RE: and she was unable to drag a lackluster top of the ticket into the winners circle.

OK, I’ll bite, if this suggests that Paul Ryan might not be able to drag a lackluster Romney into the winner’s circle, WHO CAN?

Or are you saying that as long as Romney’s the POTUS candidate, the GOP cannot win?

[Hotlanta Mike]

As Don Meredith used to sing “Turn out the lights, the party’s over”.