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Insiders Explain How Mitt Romney's Campaign Completely Fell Apart On Election Day
BI ^ | 11/12/2012 | Grace Wyler

Posted on 11/12/2012 2:19:14 PM PST by GlockThe Vote

Worse still, Ekdahl told Business Insider that the Romney campaign failed to provide poll-watching volunteers in his region — Jacksonville, Florida, a key Republican city in a major swing state — with proper credentials and accurate voter strike lists, rendering them unable to perform their duties even if the ORCA app had worked.

In interviews with Business Insider last week, sources close to the Romney campaign confirmed Ekdahl's account, and described a technological undertaking that failed at every level. According to several of these sources, ORCA was developed by a small, isolated tech team working under Romney's political team. These sources told Business Insider that the product was never properly beta-tested, and wasn't revealed to the rest of the campaign — including the digital team — until the week of the election.

Most people on the campaign "weren't that surprised" by ORCA's failure, said one Republican communications strategist close to the Romney campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012; orca; romney; romneycampaign
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To: Norm Lenhart
If we cannot form a party and back people with conservative values, we deserve what we get.

At the moment, I'd just settle for values and principles of some form. There is presently a vacuum where those things should be.

201 posted on 11/14/2012 12:14:15 PM PST by superloser
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To: ican'tbelieveit

[ Poor Ryan, did he know? ]

Does it make a difference?........ wise up..
VOTING DIED!.. it became ridiculous.. fanciful thinking.. a diversion..

The only ones to VOTE now will be the UNINFORMED...
Obama is a sock puppet.. and Romney seems to have been their Plan “B”..

Brilliant really.. Saul Alinsky carried out with almost perfection.. as Beck WARNED...
“Top down, Bottom up, Inside out”..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-kDx6gOZY


202 posted on 11/14/2012 12:14:32 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: GlockThe Vote
then re-route that info to others who were going to contact those who didnt vote

Who were these "others"? Central Committee? Romney volunteers?

203 posted on 11/14/2012 12:33:15 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GlockThe Vote
Remember what Jack Welch and Rupert Murdoch were saying about the guys in charge of Romney's campaign? And how they were no match for the Chicago boys running Obama's operation...?

How in the world could the GOP allow a presidential campaign with a worse ground game than the one McCain had...? I thought Romney was supposed to be competent.

Twice the money, this time around, what did they actually do with it...? How in the hell could they essentially leave 35,000 people stranded like that? It seems there had do be moles within the operation.

204 posted on 11/14/2012 12:35:08 PM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Cyropaedia

What have I been saying? He was running for POTUS for 6 years and had no plan?

Come on now! This is maddening beyond words.


205 posted on 11/14/2012 12:46:03 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GVnana
The author of the book gave me a copy at a business symposium once, and I've never forgotten the basic principle.

Love is the Killer App

In an age of increasing dependence on technology -- with automated and remote communications -- human contact and authentic interest attain value far in excess of the time committed.

206 posted on 11/14/2012 12:58:14 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana
It appears that in its singular focus on competing technologically with the Obama campaign, the Romney team neglected to adequately account for and organize the essential human element necessary to any grassroots undertaking. Thus when its technological efforts failed, the campaign was left without a Plan B, and its volunteers were forced to fly blind at the moment the campaign needed them most.

"I think sometimes people get enamored of technology and they take people out of the mixture because its easier," Republican strategist Dave Carney told Business Insider.

That, and the apparent belief that getting people to the polls could be accomplished at the last minute with no prior contact. Complete lack of reach to voters and stupidly passive strategy.

207 posted on 11/14/2012 1:10:20 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana

The enite concept of ORCA seems absurd to me and complately delusional.


208 posted on 11/15/2012 5:30:03 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Belle22

Lemme guess no voter id in your state?


209 posted on 11/15/2012 5:45:09 AM PST by garbanzo (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
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