As bad as McCain 2008.
The best run I ever worked was W 2004 by far.
Another Republican activist, an attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio who declined to be named for fear of “burning bridges,” told Business Insider that the campaign’s GOTV organization in that crucial swing county completely collapsed in the weeks leading up to the election.
In an interview last week, the attorney, one of the “Lawyers for Romney” who volunteered to help the campaign’s legal team by watching the polls on Election Day, described how the Romney campaign sent its legal volunteers the wrong training information, failed to provide volunteers with information about where they were supposed to be on Election Day, and stopped responding to phone calls and emails in the final two weeks of the campaign.
“It was basically a disaster,” the attorney said. “They never explained what we were supposed to be doing — where we were supposed to start, where we were supposed to end, what I was supposed to do at the end of the night — they didn’t explain any of it....A month before, you couldn’t get a phone call or an email answered.”
“Four out of eight of my polling places didn’t have a poll observer,” the attorney continued. “How you don’t even get people credentialed properly is beyond my comprehension.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-project-orca-election-day-collapse-2012-11#ixzz2C37aHa6f
Sooooo he did take a DIVE...... I told you so....
I have a theory:
Romney’s wife Ann and son Tagg took control of the campaign in it latter days (smile). Romney lost.
McCain’s wife Cindy took control of his campaign in its latter days. McCain lost.
Kerry’s wife Theresa took control of his campaign in its latter days. Kerry lost.
Insert between Romney and McCain:
Gingrich’s wife Calista took control of his campaign in its latter days. Gingrich lost.
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Perhaps, candidates should hire and heed the advise of political experts, rather than family members.
It does make you question if Romney really wanted to win.
Obama cheated. His people stuffed ballot boxes more than the number of people allowed to vote in many districts. Romney simply failed to stop him.
Seriously, though, if the campaign was so poorly organized (even with all of the money it raised) that would not reflect positively on Mitt's ability to run the Executive branch. We should have known last time, when he couldn't beat Huck and McAmnesty.
Obviously, Romney was not the super-manager that he claimed to be. However, he was doomed from the start, anyway. The GOP cannot win with a liberal.
All BS. Republicans don’t need to be told to go vote on election day. Ignorant libs... yes.
Makes me sick to read this. Romney should have had 60 million show up with EASE.
Does the GOP-e want the status quo?
Is the GOP-e ultimately in cohoots with the DNC as to the direction the country is going?
Personally...I think we are being run down the sewer by both parties..............
It’s hard to beat the democrat ground game when they can turn out a democrat vote equal to 120% to 140% of total residents in a precinct.
It seems that we have to relearn how to do these things in every election cycle, and we're regressing. I worked for both of Bush's campaigns, and although the technology was nowhere near comparable to what we have now, I never had a runner come late to my polls, and I never missed getting a call.
We have FOUR registered Republicans in this house, and two of us contributed money to Romneys' campaign. Because we all like to vote together, we're usually the last to vote in our small sub-suburban polling place, and we head over to the fire hall around 7:30 PM. During McCain's run, there were only two of us. We got multiple calls on election day reminding us to vote. We did not receive a single call on Nov 6th reminding us to vote.
NOT ONE CALL. In a state Romney supposedly believed he could win: PA.
The two GOP lawyers who came to my polling place - where I was poll watching - did not seem to know what to do if something had been going wrong. They did say that ORCA was not working for a lot of people.
I do think ORCA was hacked at some point during the day, because it shut down on me after working fine. But even if it had worked perfectly, all it was going to result in were texts, calls and visits to voters to remind them to vote. I didn’t see the Obama campaign do more.
Which brings me back to the belief that touting ORCA as the reason for the loss enables the reader to ignore vote fraud. I didn’t see the Obama campaign doing anything in my area of my swing state. But I did see a whole lot of “likely Obama voters” at the polls in my exurb. Many of them had not bathed recently, did not speak English hardly at all and in some cases did not know their own addresses. But they showed up, gave names of registered voters and voted. We only have one electronic machine and the only early voting is limited, so perhaps in my town the fraud had to be done the old-fashioned way.
I find it hard to believe that Romney lost on purpose. I think his whole life has been aimed at the Presidency—whether or not it has anything to do with the White Horse prophecy—but that he has simply surrounded himself by a bunch of hacks—party insiders who don’t know their ***s from a hole in the ground.
If you read Sarah Palin’s book about the McCain campaign, you get the picture. It has been suggested that maybe Romney sabotaged McCain by lending him handlers who purposely lost, so Romney would get his turn. But maybe not. It looks as if the same guys have done the same stupid things all over again.
No fire in their bellies, no principles, just do the same stupid things over and over again because they think that’s what they’re supposed to be doing.
One reason Romney lost is because of massive voter fraud. I’m not sure if the base stayed home, or if Obama’s guys merely stole millions of votes. We’ve seen millions of votes added by double voting and dead people. Now we’ve seen millions of votes stolen and lost. Something that has been done before on a lesser scale, but seldom like this.
If Romney had actually been WATCHING in those key places, either he would have blocked some of that massive fraud, or he would have demanded investigations and recounts. Instead, he meekly retired without a peep.
This is really discouraging. Instead of going the capitalist route and choosing the most competent company to build and run ORCA, they passed it off to a bunch of political operatives within the campaign.
There are plenty of technical companies who could have handled this contract VERY well, many many who are conservative. I actually expected this kind of stupidness when I heard about Romney refusing to use a doc sharing iPad app because it cost $10(!) choosing instead to use free email to edit documents, which is hugely inefficient.
This is ridiculous. Ridiculous. Apart from the whole RINO capitulation, which is monstrous, this short sighted approach to expertise will doom the GOP to Whig status.
The problem was massive vote fraud that still needs to be investigated. Subpoena the check in sheets and compare them to the numbers!
If how this was handled is any indication as to how he would have run the Executive branch of the .gov, we aren’t missing much by his losing....
So, Mitt is a turnaround expert after all, turning victory into defeat, disgraceful. I won’t say I told anyone so because I voted for Mitt(anyone but Obama), but, as for GOP candidates, he was my last choice after Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, not necessarily in that order. The GOP needs to be made extinct; arise, Conservatives, form a new party, let the RINOS go to the democrats, they are natural bedfellows.
If a mere 170,000 Obama votes had instead been cast for Romney across 4 key swing states, Romney would have won. It seems likely the Orca debacle cost Romney at least this many votes.