“Obama’s team turned out his vote everywhere he needed it, and he won. Republicans will fight about whether a more vocally conservative candidate could have won or whether Romney could have provided a sharper contrast with Obama, but organizational superiority may have had more than anything else to do with this result. Republicans will have to study that ground game and find a way to beat it just as the football world had to study and defeat the flex defense. That’s not a job for ideologues, but for tacticians who understand ideology and communication. “
One thing I learned is that large campaign rallies mean nothing since attendees will vote for you anyway. Obama worked on getting the lazy slacker vote, the American Idol and Leno vote, with early voting and other methods.
As far as the ground game thing goes, which conservatives weren’t aware there was an election going on and that they should have voted? If people don’t want to come out to the polls I don’t know how you get them there.