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How to Prevent Another Orca Flop (Why the Republican GOTV effort failed to match the Democrat's)
National Review ^ | 11/15/2012 | Michael James Barton

Posted on 11/15/2012 6:59:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/15/2012 6:59:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What amazes me is that the effort of the very capable capitalist was so inferior to that of the low-life welfare statists/socialists. How can that happen? Rather embarrassing.


2 posted on 11/15/2012 7:11:53 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Earth to the GOP.....Most US software companies are run by HUGE HONKING BAY AREA LEFTIES!!!!

If you want it done right, outsource it to India. At least they’ll do what you tell them if you pay them well enough.


3 posted on 11/15/2012 7:15:15 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: all the best

One word describes it: Presumption.


4 posted on 11/15/2012 7:16:41 AM PST by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

Message gets out the vote, NOT a blizzard of phone calls!

Living in a swing state, I can testify from both ends.

I was saturated with nightly phone calls from candidates and the various GOP groups wanting contributions.

As a precinct captain, this made my GOTV calls very unwelcome, as there is no distinction among the varieties of “political calls”.

More undecided voters are likely to sit it out, rather than support those who harrass them nightly for weeks on end.


5 posted on 11/15/2012 7:24:29 AM PST by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I still think the fraud was overwhelming and Romney would have had a hard time overcoming it but...

what astounds me is that, if nothing else, Romney’s biggest selling point was that of a competent businessman and manager.

Unbelievable.

It’s like someone saying, “Pick me, pick me, I’m the fastest runner.”

So he’s picked and then he shows up at the race without his running shoes.

Of course, just like John McCain, these millionaires just go back to their comfortable lives and screw the rest of us that have to live with their incompetence.

They can’t be bothered to actually fight for us.


6 posted on 11/15/2012 7:26:44 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: all the best

The irony is that Orca’s failure turns out to be a confirmation of the Austrian School’s critique of central planning, and a proof that computer technology has not invalidated that critique. (Socialist central planning is simply an extreme point — the critique works equally with any large enough organization or enterprise that has to deal with massive amounts of geographically dispersed information like a U.S.-wide GOTV effort.)


7 posted on 11/15/2012 7:31:50 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Smokeyblue

And so where did all the money go? Is there theft and corruption at the top in the GOP?

Are they becoming as corrupt and elitist as the Democrats who are running the big federal agencies?”


8 posted on 11/15/2012 7:33:59 AM PST by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it’s likely too late at this point, but if the GOP became/was a populist party that ran on low immigration levels, jobs for Americans & getting tough on trade & off-shoring they would have captured many more white voters in the upper mid-west & Penn. The GOP message these days is a mess.


9 posted on 11/15/2012 7:34:44 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: all the best
“What amazes me is that the effort of the very capable capitalist was so inferior to that of the low-life welfare statists/socialists. How can that happen? Rather embarrassing.”

Yep. Our side runs companies and makes things work in the real world.
Their side; well they just take things from other people.

We should have kicked their butts in this area.

Very embarrassing. The political consultants are to blame most likely. They get paid no matter what the outcome.
We need people with passion and fire.

10 posted on 11/15/2012 7:35:30 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: SeekAndFind
How to Prevent Another Orca Flop

I was expecting another Chris Christie thread.

11 posted on 11/15/2012 7:36:12 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind
Turns out “community organizer” may be a necessary skill set for the presidency after all.
12 posted on 11/15/2012 7:40:21 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man (<-------currently working through post-election anger issues.)
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13 posted on 11/15/2012 7:44:06 AM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most people hate to admit they were wrong. Thus, it’s hard to unseat incumbents. You have to convince a lot of people to admit (at least to themslves) that they made a mistake.

I think a lot of this “our get out the vote campaign wasn’t good” analysis is off base.

Karl Rove does the math in his recent column: Obama got 91% of this 2008 totals, Romney got 98% of McCains. Who had the superior GOTV campaign?

Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.

It’s just that Obama’s 2008 victory was so large that he had millions of votes to lose and still end up in the winners circle at the end of the contest.


14 posted on 11/15/2012 7:44:43 AM PST by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: Smokeyblue

What most refuse to acknowledge is that it was unlikely that ANYBODY could have beaten the voter fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama machine. They seem to prefer pointing fingers, blaming Romney and blathering on about Patraeus' sex life.


Col Allen West; "I don't want to see America become like Zimbabwe where people don’t trust their electoral process. If we cannot trust the integrity of the voting system then we are no longer a free republic".

Col West has opened the door.

We must fight election fraud.

It falls on ‘We the People’.

Silence is consent

There’s overwhelming evidence of fraud.- Here


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SARAH PALIN speaks out on Twitter about massive Obama machine voter fraud:

>Sarah Palin News ‏@SarahPalinLinks Between suppression of the military vote and voter fraud, Obama stole another election. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46302 …DEMAND A RECOUNT! #VoterFraud

>Sarah Palin News ‏@SarahPalinLinks People need to stop pointing fingers within the GOP and investigate the Dems' massive voter fraud and suppression of the military vote.

MITT ROMNEY TWEETS ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD:

>MITT ROMNEY in 2012! ‏@PlanetRomney #tcot The Competent Conservative: Elections Have Not Yet Been Certified, Here’s What You Can Do:

>> These electi... http://bit.ly/Zzam8Y

Here

Excerpt from Mitt Romney's reference:

These elections are NOT certified yet. The only way to get this investigated, much less recounted or overturned, is through the Secretary of State of each of the five key states: Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. EVEN IF YOU ARE IN ANOTHER STATE you can help. But it won’t do any good to dilute our effort to challenge California or Michigan or other states. Until a major group gets involved to do more, here is the plan: Contact the Secretary of State of the state in question. See contact information below...

Read the rest- Here

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The website,'Barack Obama Vote Fraud 2012' is keeping a running account of cases of voter fraud and what to do about it:

(Astonishing!) > Visit the site- Here
Sign this petition- Here

Another website:

Is There Enough Evidence of Voter Fraud To Merit a Recount? If you wish to add your voice, click here and sign the petition for a recount Here-

< Hannity and Col Allan West slam voter fraud Nov 12- Here

Photo of SOMALIANS brought to Ohio voting stations by the busload, 95% of whom did not speak English, and told to vote for Obama, straight Dem ticket- Here

Must watch videos!

VIDEO-- Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting- Here

VIDEO- Illegal Aliens Caught Voting and Stealing Elections In Florida In Vast Numbers- Here

VIDEO- MICHAEL SAVAGE: How Obama fixed the 2012 election- Here

VIDEO- Massive voter fraud discovered in April- Here

VIDEO- Whistle blower speaks out about voter fraud- Here

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We can not wait for 2014 and 2016 to regroup and figure out new strategies. By then it will be too late. The Marxist/Muslim usurper will have completed his planned distruction of America. That's what people fail to understand.

We must act NOW.

Start with the election. If we let the Rats get away with this massive voter fraud, we're no better than a bananna republic.

We must keep digging and pounding him every day, in every way we can- phony birth certificate, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, his hidden life, records....

We are FReepers. We must fight!

Those who shrug and accept this atrocity without a fight are not worthy to be called Freepers!

Join us!! See thread, 'BARACK OBAMA FRAUD 2012- (MUST READ- MUST GO VIRAL!)' thread- Here




15 posted on 11/15/2012 7:45:06 AM PST by patriot08 (Native Texan)
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Another thing. How does somebody spend six years running and lose? And lose to a loser like Bathhouse Barry?

I mean really. You have great wealth to hire and consult with the best of the best.

How do you not have a detailed war-plan down to the precinct level with nothing taken for granted.

Six years, money is no object, and you really, really want it and you still lose?

We told them that playing nice with the media and marxist wouldn’t work. And then they can’t even complete the most basic tasks of GOTV.


16 posted on 11/15/2012 7:48:52 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Jack Black

RE: Romney improved McCain’s performance in almost every demographic, improved his % of the popular vote, and a few more EC votes.

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2008 Presidential Election

Popular vote Obama: 69,456,897 McCain: 59,934,814

2012 Presidential Election (Still Counting but it’s almost over )

Popular Vote: Obama: 62,820,778 Romney: 59,274,599

See the above Popular vote numbers for Romney? In what sense is it an “improvement” over McCain?


17 posted on 11/15/2012 7:53:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: all the best
What amazes me is that the effort of the very capable capitalist was so inferior to that of the low-life welfare statists/socialists. How can that happen? Rather embarrassing.

Don't think of them as mere "low-life welfare statists/socialists."

Al Capone was not sent to prison for the crimes he committed or the illegal operations he operated. He was sent to prison for tax evasion. He was living too large for the pauper's income he reported.

These people are every bit as proficient at running a thug-ocracy as was Big Al. And now they run the very machinery charged with keeping their like in check.

18 posted on 11/15/2012 7:54:16 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: patriot08
"What most refuse to acknowledge is that it was unlikely that ANYBODY could have beaten the voter fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama machine. They seem to prefer pointing fingers, blaming Romney and blathering on about Patraeus' sex life."

The points are not mutually exclusive. Voter fraud and Romney incompetence both occurred. Where is Romney fighting or speaking out against voter fraud? He isn't. He's made a few tame remarks about gifts to minorities. He is not talking to election officials or filing lawsuits. Nope. He just caves. Right now Romney is the winner since Bathhouse Barry has not qualified according to the constitution but do you think he actually has the balls to go after his rightful win? Nope. Romney should be asking for the birth certificate but he'd rather the USA be raped by the usurping marxist.

19 posted on 11/15/2012 7:58:52 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: patriot08
"What most refuse to acknowledge is that it was unlikely that ANYBODY could have beaten the voter fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama machine. They seem to prefer pointing fingers, blaming Romney and blathering on about Patraeus' sex life."

The points are not mutually exclusive.

Voter fraud and Romney incompetence both occurred.

Where is Romney fighting or speaking out against voter fraud? He isn't. He's made a few tame remarks about gifts to minorities. He is not talking to election officials or filing lawsuits. Nope. He just caves.

Right now Romney is the winner since Bathhouse Barry has not qualified according to the constitution but do you think he actually has the balls to go after his rightful win? Nope.

Romney should be asking for the birth certificate but he'd rather the USA be raped by the usurping marxist.

20 posted on 11/15/2012 7:59:59 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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