I agree. Mitt lost on tactics, not performance. I give him high marks individually, as he was nearly error free and became very effective this fall. Tactically, they made several major strategic errors. One was assuming the base was going to show up because of Obama dislike. The campaign needed to woo the base, give a major speech on the religious infringement of the Obamacare mandate on churches. They needed to welcome Ron Paul voters rather than expel them. They needed to bring everyone in united to change course.
I have said earlier, and it sticks in my brian, there was a high level campaign guy at the convention who said their strategy wasn’t to take on Obama’s record because people know the record. They erred...and needed to hammer him relentlessly and ties poor economic numbers directly to his decisions....point to job slowdown immediately after Obamacare. Show 20 year graphs of employment to put his ‘job creation’ in perspective. Obama got away with a crappy economy, because exit polls showed he convinced the voting population that we had come a long way. We haven’t and things are going to get worse. What a lost opportunity...and one we are going to have a hard time recovering from.
I think Mitt did everything right EXCEPT articulate HIS plan. We hammered Obama good on the economy.
If the Republicans have any hope of getting back n the White House, they will have to create a voting plan that limits voter fraud. The Democrats can just store up a bunch of cash and pay the Precincts for the votes. The UN guys were right. It’s too easy to cheat.