Posted on 11/09/2012 6:19:37 PM PST by upbeat5
If you spend your time watching politics and haven’t been hiding in a deep depression since Tuesday, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about “ORCA.” According to the Washington Post, ORCA “was designed as a first-of-its-kind tool to employ smartphones to mobilize voters, allowing them to microtarget which of their supporters had gone to the polls.”
There is now widespread condemnation of the program as being sloppy and poorly deployed.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Fact: MANY Evangelical Christians are one issue voters.
During the last few weeks of the campaign no less than 2% ... maybe 5% .... of evangelical Christians began looking at the candidates in earnest.
These one issue voters learned that Romney is a proaborter AND THEY WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
You can call those folks all you want... they will not vote for a proaborter.
A viable political party cannot give up two to five percent of the vote up front in a presidential election and expect to win in the end.
This one issue.... Romney’s long history of supporting abortion... should have eliminated him early on in the primary vetting process.
But of course, as we all know, Romney WAS rejected by Republican voters, but North East Establishment Liberal Republicans lied, cheated, and stole the nomination for Romney.
FOXNEWS was the number #1 reason Romney won the nomination.
Shawn Hannity, Bill Oreilly, and company pushed and pushed and pushed for Romney and he STILL had to steal the nomination.
If Republicans do not deal with this one issue, they will get another Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney milk toast liberal Republican clone in 2016 and again be sitting around scratching their wrinkly butts wondering why THEIR liberal got beaten by a FAR BETTER LIBERAL.
I don’t know how anyone can simultaneously believe this story and also believe that Romney is a great business manager who knows how to get things done.
Then all this ORCA talk could just be COINTELPRO to distract us from the real fraud. It fits.
You made some good points in your comments, I also think Dick Morris made that prediction to make us stay home and be complacent the Clinton libs are more sneaky and diabolical that the modern brasin impatient liberals I think.
We should have gotten behind Newt! He would have truly moped the floor with obama in the debates and had a real landslide. Instead we had the fools of the Republican Party stick with Sanborem and Mittens until the bitter end and screwed us with the biggest non-conservative establishment candidate. That’s where we went wrong. I still cant understand how people couldn’t recognize Newt as the genius he is, God only knows what he could have done for our Country. I think of him as the modern Reagan. People were just too emotionally attached to the other two.
Wow from your lips to God’s ears brother well said.
In fairness to the Romney campaign (and speaking as a software developer), I’m sure they ran a very large number of tests on the Orca system. Clearly they needed to run even more tests. But it’s difficult to simulate the number of simultaneous users that you have on election day and there’s no possible way to simulate all the possible technical and user-related problems that can occur on election day. My take on this is that the GOP needs to use a simpler and less-sophisticated system next time that doesn’t rely so much on real-time data from field operatives with smart phones, but just gets the basic job done and enables volunteers to contact all the likely GOP voters.
You may be right about the abortion issue, and Romney’s record as governor of a liberal state hurt him significantly in this election, but please tell me exactly how Romney “stole the nomination”?
People who usually vote did so.
As usual Mormons and GOP-e folks will claim they were persecuted by hateful Evangelicals.
Someday you guys will come up with a trained actuary or mathemtician who can tell you all about the demographic effects of mortality and birth. Until that time I can only hector you and look down my nose.
I contacted the Romney campaign in Springfield, offered to do a lit drop in my VERY Hispanic ‘hood. Oh, no, they’ve ID’d “their” voters in my district, I could drop lit there. So an entire area with many new potential voters was overlooked by that campaign. It could be all those voters would have needed was a single visit by a Republican who wanted their vote.
Dude doesn't have a chance ~ he should save his money.
In many ways, both Rick Santorum and Newt would have been great candidates. But the Obama campaign would have viciously attacked Santorum as a "hateful homophobe" and a "religious extremist", while Gingrich would have been smeared as "disrespectful of women" because of statements from his ex-wife. Would either of them have been able to withstand Obama's vicious smear machine and win the election? I don't know, but most likely they would have received more votes and support from evangelical Christians.
Yes, Republican turnout was record high; Democrat turnout was record low; in both early voting and on election day. Romney's campaign was one of the best run Republican campaigns we've ever seen in our lifetimes; but that cannot overcome the massive voter fraud perpetrated by county and state elections officials bought off with trillions of stolen taxpayer money.
While all the Republican voters engage in their finger-pointing and circular firing squads, only one Republican candidate, Allen West, is challenging the obvious voter fraud in his election.
Coast to coast, this was the most crooked election this nation has ever experienced. There are Republican counties in red states that went lopsided for Dems for the first time in forever, ironically in critical states, and in critical races.
The Dems stole the Presidency, the Senate, and knocked out several choice conservative Congressional candidates.
Well, I'm neither one of those so you can bite me. There are quite a number of FReepers who have proudly proclaimed that they didn't vote for Romney.
That "actuarily" translates into hundreds of thousands of voters.
Someday you guys will come up with a trained actuary or mathemtician who can tell you all about the demographic effects of mortality and birth....blah blah blah...
Until that time I can only hector you and look down my nose.
Yeah, you seem to be doing that pretty well. Looks like that makes YOU some kind of snotty elitist.
Again...bite me.
Being able to do the math does make a person into an elitist ~ Herman Cain can tell you what a desert it is out there when it comes to math
I hope you are right. I think the Democrats aren’t getting the funding they would like to do blanket mailings. That means they have to know who to contact. I know that you worked for the Postal Service. Over the course of years, could a postal employee start keeping track of who receives
continuous literature from the Republicans and other conservative organizations? I’m talking maybe five addresses a day that get sent to the Democrats. Multiply that by months and by thousands of employees. I know that there are laws against that, but our prisons are overcrowded with people who don’t follow the law. It would save the Democrats a lot of time and money. Most postal employees aren’t Republicans.
There is no postal faction as such but they are almost totally unionized. Remember that old saying, management gets the union it deserves ~ write that in capital letters when it comes to working for managers who work for the federal government.
Both parties see you’ve voted in, say, three Republican primaries in a row and so using the voting records they know how you’ll vote, if you vote.
No it doesn't.
I can only hector you and look down my nose.
But looking down your nose does.
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