“When you control the mail you control...information.”
-Newman
Posted on 11/09/2012 6:19:37 PM PST by upbeat5
If you spend your time watching politics and haven’t been hiding in a deep depression since Tuesday, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about “ORCA.” According to the Washington Post, ORCA “was designed as a first-of-its-kind tool to employ smartphones to mobilize voters, allowing them to microtarget which of their supporters had gone to the polls.”
There is now widespread condemnation of the program as being sloppy and poorly deployed.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Fact is GOP voters should not have to be contacted to vote PERIOD
Who in this country didn’t know that Nov. 6th was election day? Many states had early voting as well. This is just a stupid excuse.
He said pretty openly that this campaign was little more than an opportunity for GOP "strategists" and "consultants" (he mentioned Karl Rove in particular) to make a lot of money from the hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the Romney campaign and the RNC during this election cycle.
“..first-of-its-kind tool..”
At least the beta test was done on an application that wasn’t critical.
Priebus needs to go, this whole debacle is on him.
“Consult” = “Con” + “Insult”
-Scott Adams
This I believe. Moderates running the Romney campaign made no real effort to attract Conservatives. ABO was not enough.
Harsh statement. Sad to see them turn on one another.
Yeah I would agree, at the end of the day, this still says a lot about the general public. Obama’s job performance should have been enough to elect a random draw from a phone book. I sure didn’t need anyone to tell me to vote.
I heard him, too. He was livid.
This explains th lack of ads. We all wondered where all the Romney campaign funds were going.
Everyone associated with the GOP for the past 4 years, anyone associated with the Bushes needs to be gone.
Why don’t these Morons use a Guy like Dick Morris?
He was a clinton campaign advisor...He understands the left’s mind set....and I am impressed with His political
number crunching....He is at least as good as Rove.
and the best part is He Hates the left Now....
someone needs to put him on a “retainer” for 2016....
Yeah. Well, we had a harsh result.
The only question that matters here is, is this accurate, and if so, how to fix it for next time.
Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.
And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,
This election was stolen fraudulent.
Romney won Bambi lost.
Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!
Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.
And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,
This election was stolen fraudulent.
Romney won Bambi lost.
Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!
Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.
And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,
This election was stolen fraudulent.
Romney won Bambi lost.
Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!
Pure projection. There is no sloppy or poorly deployed about it.
And I don’t care about this “we can’t say the election was stolen because that is what democrats do fricken BS,
This election was stolen fraudulent.
Romney won Bambi lost.
Do we not know the score by now? Do we allow..oh never mind!
What's worse, Romney's whole persona was predicated on managerial competence and yet these self-promoting hucksters are given positions of power and authority within the campaign? And worst of all, they were all demonstrably incompetent. I am sick at heart reading these accounts. What a disaster.
A week before the election, Dick Morris was predicting a Romney landslide. I’m not saying that disqualifies him from ever working in a GOP campaign, but it does make me wonder just how much “talent” a lot of these people really have.
We’ve all been hearing about ORCA for two days now. At least this article names names, making it worthy of consideration I think.
With that being said, I wasn't able to vote until nearly 8:00. I had 6 messages on my iPhone telling me to get out there and vote Romney/Ryan. The first one was a general reminder “today is election day, please vote for Romney/Ryan.” The next few were “get out and vote!” The last few were “you still have time to vote.” So some how I was getting contacted.
I wonder how many of those "strategists" and "consultants" are actually Democrats?
Agreed!
That’s it!
I am going back to burying dead bodies under my house.
Dick Morris is wrong so often on his predictions, you can almost take the opposite of whatever he’s predicting to be what will really happen.
Cadell is a good man.
He’s right about these political animals that dwell on both sides of the aisle yet have no honest loyalty to anyone. You either hire them or be destroyed by them. In many cases they destroy the candidate they’re working for as soon as a better deal comes along.
Actually, that’s one of the things that makes Obama a bit different. His political handlers aren’t the old democrat standards, his have real loyalty, if not to him, to the marxist ideal. It makes them a more dangerous breed.
Do a google search of Dick Morris and Raila Odinga (Obama’s cousin.) Sorry to disagree but this toesucker never gets trust again as far as I am concerned. He ran Odinga’s campaign in Africa, according to news reports and did it with Clinton’s playbook. Leopards don’t change their spots. I won’t lap up polling data from this troll again. Research it for yourself.
Ain’t that the truth. Can we PLEASE not get fooled by the jacka$$ pundits and conspiracy theorists again? If we do, we will have this conversation EVERY 2 years until we are extinct.
I hope Rove simply goes away. I am sick of him and the Bushies. Sick of the entire mess. I am ready for a new party. The Conservative Patriot’s Party.
Preibus must go ~
Now that's symmetry!
He pounded the “Demographic is destiny” theme to smithereens, too. Whatever Republican buys into that ought to be driven out to pasture in a hurry. This obviously was the community organizer election. Voting precincts 10,000 to 0 obviously takes the skill of a real palm greaser like Obama. And everybody said his “real world experience” amounted to nothing. Meanwhile, I was looking forward to authentic competence from Romney-Ryan and they turn out to be rank amateurs before they ever get to the gates of the White House.
I didn’t receive one Democrat phone call, e-mail or campaign mailing. How did they know to not waste any time or money on me? The Republicans sent me lots of e-mails and brochures. I received lots of Republican phone calls. The Democrats have a pretty good intelligence gathering service. Post office workers?
Rove first and foremost needs to be banished. He is a con man and a fraud!
or AMERICANS AIN’T DEAD YET party
I heard him in the car. He was on fire. Tearing everyone apart. Great radio. I know he used to be for Carter, but some 2016 hopeful should look into hiring him or at least “consulting” with him..
>> The Democrats have a pretty good intelligence gathering service.
Republicans are too busy paying taxes.
a lot of that is just wanting to keep morale up on our side. If someone like Morris or Rove comes out and says Romney’s going to lose, that causes a lot of folks to stay home or get demoralized.
The dems do the same thing. Look at 2010 when people like Pelosi and Bill Clinton and flacks like Carville and Begala were talking about the dems would hold the House. they knew what was going to happen, but were playing their part.
“When you control the mail you control...information.”
-Newman
Anyone miss Michael Steele yet?
Guy leads the party to its best result in 75 years and is summarily fired
Given that voters are not soldiers in a military campaign and can't be dragooned into voting, it's essential that they be made to think that their candidate has a chance of winning. If they think disaster is inevitable, they won't take an hour or hours from their daily lives to drive to the polling station, get in line and vote. Negativity can turn a defeat into super-majorities for the other side. Also, who's going to contribute funds to a campaign he thinks is likely to lose - money he could hang on to for things like Christmas presents and steak dinners? Negativity becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.
Him or Cliff Clavin.
Sour grapes.....
What we're up against...
The Dem GOTV is well organized, aggressive and unfettered by the rule book. They know their voters' names, addresses and whether they have voted or not. With early voting, volunteers will call, drive to people's houses and drag them to the polling booth. And if no ID is required, and they have a registered voter who hasn't voted, they'll use a warm body. Our competitor is Chicago Boss Daley quality voter corruption...gone national.
Karl Rove- the architect of Defeat.
After not supporting Conservative candidates who defeated moderates in the primaries, Karl Rove deserves having his career done in.
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