Posted on 08/27/2012 3:30:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
But does that scale up to the job of the RNC? So far he’s made some serious mistakes ~
I’m not sure what you’re asking about scaling up. Free media and paid advertising is part of the job of the RNC. Fundraising, campaign support and candidate recruitment would be, I think, the main jobs.
What do you see as his ‘serious mistakes’ ?
First off, this convention, this location, at this time of year.
He almost lost the whole show ~ inexcusable.
A smart guy would have made sure the convention itself was safe from climatological anomalies!
LOL!
Bush’s fault.
In the off-chance you were serious:
Florida is at the top of the must-win states and the ‘season’ for conventions is fixed.
BTW, Florida goes either way depending on how well they've cleaned their voter registration files.
Turns out Virginia is hyper critical this year, and they were given the mailed fist greeting last Spring.
Would have been an easy state for Republicans to win too ~ just given up without a thought ~ they laughed even.
Hurricane season is June - Oct/Nov.
Florida is an absolute must win for Romney even over Virginia.
Hardly ~ without Virginia he loses.
BTW, the season I referred to was the CONVENTION season, not hurricane season. Up here that merges into Noreaster season ~ which you guys don’t get ~ but the Constitution has dates for the elections and it’s considered necessary to get your stuff in one pile by end of August or thereabouts.
We disagree on whether FL is more important than Virginia and therefore which is the better choice for the convention.
Yes, I understand you meant Convention season. My point was that hurricane season overlaps both ends of convention season, so there’s not a choice of scheduling outside of it.
Looking up the facts and dates, I found that this argument is irrelevant as far as Priebus anyway.
The decision selecting Tampa was announced on May 12, 2010 by the Site Selection Committee. Priebus was not a member of the committee.
Priebus was elected chair on jan 14, 2011.
FL has more than twice as many electoral votes as Virginia. Romney can win without Virginia much more easily than the converse.
For example if he wins FL and some of the toss ups, he can lose VA, WI, CO, NV, PA and still get over 270.
Switch the win in FL with Virginia in this scenario and he loses.
HIs sin, then, is in not seeking a revision. He took the job of RNC whipping boy ~ he’s gotta’ stand up to it.
Virginia is TIGHT all up and down the ballot ~ with both major candidates falling below 50% ~ and not breaking through that ceiling. But they have been almost exactly even ever since April with small fluctuations up and down.
We have a very Conservative Republican base (with backstabbing RINOs in charge of the party at the top unfortunately), and a very well organized African-American electorate who are NOT going to vote for Romney under any circumstances ~ just give up that idea!
That leaves about 75% of the electorate extraordinarily locked into party identification, and then there's everybody else and either they are not going to vote, or they're not voting at the top.
That is tight ~ and worse, convincing people to vote for one or the other of two candidates is pretty easy compared to convincing people to vote at all when they are highly motivated to NOT vote.
Florida is a piece of cake compared to Virginia.
Well, we disagree again. I think Florida is the right place and, further, whereever was chosen it would be a mistake to change it at a late date.
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