Posted on 10/30/2012 2:01:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Romney’s political director says his team is more focused on getting people less inclined to vote to send in absentee ballots or go to the polls—and is successfully cutting the president’s lead among early voters.
Rich Beeson, political director of the Romney campaign, is not moved by reports of a huge “ground game” advantage on the part of the Obama campaign.
“The only metric anyone has seen is the number of offices and the number of staff on the ground,” Beeson said. “In Virginia, Obama has 80 offices, we have 26,” he said by way of example. “In Florida the Obama campaign has 100 offices; we have 41.”
As the old saying goes, generals and political operatives are always fighting the last war. Beeson said if the Romney team wanted more offices—or thought they would provide a measurable difference in the vote, they would have opened more offices.
Beeson is a seasoned political hand, having been the political director at the Republican National Committee, among other high-profile posts.
“This isn’t 2008 when we were restricted by funds,” he said. “We didn’t have the money four years ago, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten how to organize and turn out our voters.”
Speaking from the Romney campaign offices in Boston, Beeson was asked about reports of large leads for Obama among early voters.
“We have a completely different strategy. They are voting their high-propensity voters first,” he said, adding that the Obama campaign want their base vote in the bank as soon as possible. “We know our high-propensity voters will vote; we’re focusing our early voting operation on the lower-propensity voters. We want them to get to the polls or to send in their absentee ballots before Election Day.”
He said he was confident about Election Day voters. “Our turnout will be far stronger.”......
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Got to give it up to the Romney team....much better than I thought they would be. Makes McCain’s effort look like the joke it was in 08.
“One week from Election Day, the presidential race has tightened dramatically in Ohio, which appears more likely than any other state to decide who will win the White House.
A Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday shows Mitt Romney overtaking President Obama in Ohio for the first time since May, with 50 percent support to Obama’s 48. This follows a Cincinnati Enquirer/Ohio News poll over the weekend that showed the candidates tied at 49 percent.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls still shows Obama ahead, 48.6 to 46.7 percent, but that spread might flatter the president’s current position because it includes a CNN-ORC and Public Policy Polling survey, released last week, which showed him up by 4 points, and a Time magazine poll giving him a 5-point lead.
With perhaps only a handful of true toss-up states left, Ohio could prove indispensable for each campaign in their quest for the 270 Electoral College votes necessary for victory................”
I’ve seen the occasional hand-wringing here at FR about Obama’s vaunted ground game and how superior it is to Romney’s. This should help put an end to that untruth and reassure some anxieties. As well as explain why Romney IS going to win Ohio.
Thanks for posting it.
To all: go forward in faith that GOD will help America! In GOD we trust. Right?
Put aside doubt and disbelief and pray, think, and speak GOD’s blessings on Romney and Ryan and other agents of change for the better in America’s politics!
Should also mention that I’m in Mass & Romney is hitting the NH TV market from here at about 8 TV spots for every 1 run by Obama. He’s got Obama on blast 24/7 on TV & radio day after day.
Ohio is going GOP-period.
Obama needs to get his base to vote early before more facts come out on the Banghazi diaster.
This can’t be a squeaker as that will leave the path open for fraudulent Dem votes and the Left’s army of lawyers waiting in the wings to act.
No - its the candidate, stupid.
In the end that’s who people vote for. All the turnout in the world means nothing if they don’t like you!
Romney has the advantage that he’s seen as a person people want to vote for because they like him. Sure, turnout helps but in the end, it all begins and ends with the candidate.
I'd vote against them no matter who was running.
I get the feeling you didn't read the article; that's precisely the point made in the last two paragraphs of it. :-)
I read the article.
The Romney Campaign’s greatest asset is the candidate.
Without him, they couldn’t win an election for dogcatcher.
Sorry, the “No — it’s the candidate” threw me off.
It’s actually both candidate and campaign, though; in these modern times, a good candidate without a good campaign is dead in the water.
Then again, in 2008 a really BAD candidate won with good branding and a savvy campaign (and weak opposition)...
One thing for sure, the libs won’t give Romney three and a half years to blame Obama for all the country’s ills.
When the candidate is good - a winning campaign is icing on the cake.
When the candidate is terrible - even the most well-oiled machine in the world isn’t much help.
That sums why Romney holds the upper hand and why Obama is losing.
He knows what he is doing.
His son stepped and saw the weakness Obama popular and his Dad wasn't with the people and turned that around, anything to beat Obama and they rode it
Correct, but not to protect mcpain too much, he didn't have 4 years of obama's record to run against... not that it would have helped him.
If Sarah had run this year...[SIGH}...
This is exactly what our observers at election HQ in Montgomery County OHare reporting. There are no bus loads of people being dropped off. Rather, they report that the Ds coming in appear to be more affluent “regular” D voters. Their early GOTV effort, compared.to 08, has been a flop.
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