[Jane Long]

A winner would have had a game plan for every precinct in the nation. He and his team would have identified where fraud was likely to occur and would have manned the polling places susceptible to fraud with poll watchers and attorneys. At the first sign of fraud his attorneys would have been in front of a judge.

I agree 100%.

The more I think about it the more I believe the powers behind the scenes determined Obama would win the 2008 and 2012 elections. Romney and McCain were selected because they agreed to go through the motions and lose gracefully.

Agree, again. Look at the tough fight W put up, in 2000. Where was that ground game, with Romney?

[Soul of the South]

“Look at the tough fight W put up, in 2000. Where was that ground game, with Romney?”

The ground game could have been spearheaded by passionate Tea Party activists, fresh off a very successful 2010 Congressional campaign, who Romney refused to embrace.

Winning executives in the corporate world quickly learn to leverage assets. Romney refusing help from the Tea Party was the equivalent of the CEO of floundering company firing his best financial people the day before filing for bankruptcy and replacing them with workers from a temp agency.

Perhaps Romney’s reputation as a powerful executive was a mirage.