Romney bet that playing nice and running on conpetence would be enough, but bringing a knife to a gun fight leads to getting shot. He never respoded to Obama's attacks in kind, betting that playing nice would appeal to the mushy middle - he lost that bet.
This piece is long, but well worth the read if you want to understand the lessons of the election.
Who says white voters didn’t show up.
Let’s remember the growing crowds for Romney, and the crickets at the Hussein rallies.
A simple tampering with voting machines can wipe out millions of repub votes.
Everyone I know could not wait to go vote. We waited 4 long painful years to do that.
We showed up, and they wiped out millions of our votes with the largest amount of vote fraud and tampering in history.
I know we can “Freep” a poll. Let’s see if we can Freep an issue. Bring up the fact that the Republicans stayed home on every site you can, in every comment section possible. NRO, Hot Air, and all the rest. Email right-leaning pundits. This is why Romney lost. The Republican base didn’t turn out, and the “experts” aren’t addressing it. They will answer it by running another moderate.
I hope everyone who posts on this thread, also look at all our comments on the earlier thread on this same article, at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2957014/posts
It’s not that difficult to NOT COUNT Romney votes, is it? Something will eventually come out but it won’t matter, as usual. 0bama winning nearly all the battle ground states and Romney winning nearly all the non-battle ground states makes no sense.
All the post mortems aside, recall the hype before and during the election: RECORD TURNOUT was the talk of the town. EVERYWHERE!!! RECORD TURNOUT in early voting. RECORD TURNOUT in absentee voting. RECORD TURNOUT at the polls. LONG LINES at most if not all polling stations. MANY polling stations stayed open late to accomodate the LONG LINES. And NOW we’re led to believe it was all just a figment of our collective imaginations... What happened to the votes???
“It’s clear now that running moderate candidates (even competent and decent candidates like Romney) means we will lose.”
Then explain how true blue through and through conservatives like Mia Love and Allen West, as well as other conservatives in many states lost also.
It amazes me that so many FReepers blindly believe the story that Republican voters didn't vote and that turnout was higher in Democrat areas.
There was huge attendance at Republican rallies before the election.
I don't have the proof but it appears that there was massive vote fraud in the battle ground states. Instead of recriminations and hand wringing perhaps it might be better to look into this.
My guess is that of these white voters who didn’t vote, a large percentage of them don’t pay taxes, for whatever reason, and very few of them work in the private sector or own businesses. We may find a surprising percentage of them have Obamaphones.
This could be the first generation of voting age white Americans who have little or no desire towards accomplishment or achievement.
As I heard Dennis Miller say this morning, running Marco Rubio in 2016 wouldn’t appeal to this demographic. The “O” at the end of his name wouldn’t matter unless it had a lot of O’s after it and a dollar sign in front of it.
This was purely a gotv beat.
"Early voting gave Dems weeks to ship low info voters to polls." - Dan Gainor (Media Research Council)
BTW...”Missing Voters” ...is a distraction...look for the “excess voters”...and you’ll find the answers...
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.(or both!!)
Rush is just now going thru the numbers in more detail. Fewer Republicans voted for Romney than did for McCain. About three (3) million Republicans DID NOT vote. That’s enough to have put Romney up by about 100K. Nice work sliders. Staying home worked out great and you got the Obamuzzie you deserve. Now I’m going to spend the other half of my campaign money on ammunition.
Don’t you think Mitt Romney’s treatment of Ron Paul at the Republican Convention *might* have had something to do with this? Regardless of Paul’s political viewpoints, he did win the delegates fair and square.
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You're wrong. It had nothing to do with policy. Romney ran on traditional American know-how, a positive campaign of ideas.
Romney bet that playing nice and running on conpetence would be enough, but bringing a knife to a gun fight leads to getting shot. He never respoded to Obama's attacks in kind, betting that playing nice would appeal to the mushy middle - he lost that bet.
Wrong again. Romney "played nice" because he had a huge problem with likability and he closed that gap by election day telling me it was the right strategy for him.
I haven't read the whole piece yet but the "lessons" are probably wrong based on your take away commentary. Romney doesn't have to have done things wrong in this campaign to have lost to Obama. He ran a great campaign; he performed very well in the debates.
In Ohio he was crippled by Obama's mischaracterization of the auto bailout op-ed Romney wrote years ago.
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Purists here and elsewhere stayed home or didn’t vote because to them there wasn’t a perfect candidate so they got a perfect socialist dictator socialist Obama. These purists just gave the country, our life , and liberty to socialism and Obama FOREVER. the democrats were able to commit voter fraud because of the power of the government. See the growing government and socialism makes government much more powerful so that it will allow Obama to have all power soon( It already has abused power so many times ).
I say the missing GOP was there, but their votes were siphoned off to bama