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David Axelrod Surprised by Romney Campaign’s Missed Opportunities
Daily Beast ^ | 11/30/2012 | James Warren

Posted on 11/30/2012 7:44:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Obama’s top election strategist tells a Chicago audience he was surprised Mitt Romney’s team did not attack Obama more, stuck so narrowly with their base—and chose Paul Ryan for VP.

President Obama’s top reelection strategist conceded surprise Monday that Republican super PACS didn’t attack Obama far earlier, Mitt Romney didn’t invest much more in ground operations, and that the Republican nominee played narrowly to the party base in picking Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate.

Offering a lengthy dissection of the campaign, David Axelrod told a Chicago audience that he was “a bit surprised that super PACS, which spent an unbelievable amount of money,” didn’t hit television and radio with anti-Obama ads until May.

“Our air defenses weren’t ready,” he said, alluding to his side’s early lack of resources. “They gave us a pass, for whatever reason.”

At the same time, he was surprised that a plausible, distinctly positive image of Romney as successful businessman was not central to Romney’s media strategy until late fall. In part he ascribed that to Romney’s “Faustian bargain” to get the Republican nomination and tacking far to the right while also unleashing a barrage of mostly negative ads against GOP primary rivals.

The Obama camp assumed that after Romney sewed up the nomination, he would offer that more upbeat aura in his ads. “They never did that,” Axelrod said at the evening gathering at the University of Chicago.

As for Ryan, Axelrod personally figured former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty would be the choice, possibly Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. His doubts about Ryan were a function of tough-minded views on privatizing Social Security and making significant changes in Medicare.

And as for the Republicans’ field operation, their comparatively small investment played into the Democrats’ hands and was not forecast by Axelrod, either.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012electionanalysis; axelrod; captainobvious; elections; gope; incompetent; obvious; paulryan; romney; ryan; somuch4managermitt; unelectable
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To: SeekAndFind

Clearly, the most significant “missed opportunity” was the opportunity to check all those rigged voting machines.


21 posted on 12/01/2012 12:43:26 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: ilgipper

These are my conclusions about that campaign http://www.theusmat.com/. I was pulling my hair out I couldn’t believe what they were doing and I’ve been out of the loop for so long there wasn’t much I could do. Locally I was hoping to build on a top down ticket pull. My guys for state offices barely squeeked through but they did carry..


22 posted on 12/01/2012 1:43:11 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("A voice crying in the wilderness make streight for the way of the Lord")
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To: ilgipper

These are my conclusions about that campaign http://www.theusmat.com/. I was pulling my hair out I couldn’t believe what they were doing and I’ve been out of the loop for so long there wasn’t much I could do. Locally I was hoping to build on a top down ticket pull. My guys for state offices barely squeeked through but they did carry..


23 posted on 12/01/2012 1:47:07 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("A voice crying in the wilderness make streight for the way of the Lord")
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm surprised that this Chicago thug with his Hitler moustache thinks that 49% of this country doesn't know they stole the election. When 91 precincts in NYC recorded not one vote for Romney, there is no doubt.
24 posted on 12/01/2012 3:59:40 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

What David Axlerod meant, was he was surprised by Romney missed opportunities to rig the voting machines.


25 posted on 12/01/2012 4:27:29 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: SeekAndFind

Axelrod is surprised while Conservatives are not.


26 posted on 12/01/2012 6:38:40 AM PST by izzatzo
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To: SeekAndFind

The whole election was fixed...Obama won in all the states where the voter ID was deemed illegal. Didn’t matter who showed up. They were getting enough votes no matter who or how many showed up to vote for Romney. Just doesn’t matter anymore...


27 posted on 12/01/2012 6:44:24 AM PST by oust the louse (Obamacare has morphed into a tax on staying alive.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

RE: He chose Ryan so he could drag out the principled voters that stayed home.

So, what to call the millions who STILL stayed home even with Ryan as running mate?


Romney could have chosen someone like Rubio...and kept even millions more conservatives home. At least Ryan was not Amnesty Liberal and did not have Natural Born issues...


28 posted on 12/01/2012 7:03:00 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Illegal Aliens do not pay Social Security...Employers do)
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Can't you just imagine this was the scene with Obama and his Commie staff after stealing the election through voter fraud- while Conservatives blame Romney, argue, point fingers and try to figue out how to suck up to minorities the 'next time'?






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 who to run in 2016 and how to suck up to the minorities.

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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....




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
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Read the rest- Here

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CANADA FREE PRESS: 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
Obama Voter Fraud on FaceBook- Here

Sign this petition- over 99,000 and counting -cards, email- Here

Sign the ‘We The People’ petition. It has 60,000 signatures and counting- Here

WND List of voter fraud reports Here
ATLAS SHRUGS voter fraud list. Here


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

'Human Events', report pollwatcher eyewitness to busload of Somalians at Ohio poll, spoke no English, told to vote Obama Here

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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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Voter fraud from Tea Party: Here

The American Dream- 22 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham: Here

Town Hall : Obama Likely Won The Election Through Voter Fraud: Here

American Thinker: Was The Election Stolen:? Here

WSVN-TV Almost 1K Ballots Found In Broward Elections Warehouse: Here

Pundit Press; In Florida Obama Got Over 99% In Broward County Precincts: Here

Natural News.com: 19,605 to Zero IS Statistical Proof Of Outright Vote Fraud in 2012 Presidential Election: Here

Realville, USA: The Great Election Robbery of 2012? Here

WND: Here's How Touchscreens Killed Romney Votes: Here

The American Dream: Election Fraud? Obama Won More Than 99% Of The Vote in More Than 100 Ohio Precincrs: Here

WND: The Big List Of Voter Fraud Reports: Here

Nachum's List of Voter Fraud: Here

MORE:

Newt Gingrich 360: Here

Appalachian Forums: Here

Before It's News: Here

WND: Here

Political Outcast: Here

True The Vote: Here

Fox News Insider: Here

Human Events; Here

The Will County News: Here

Fox News: Here

WND: Here

Townhall: Here

Breitbart Here

Accuracy In Media The Left's national voter fraud strategy exposed: Here

Thousands of military votes uncounted or missing: Here

Human Events: Here

Front Page Magazine: Here

The Blaze Here

The Daily Caller: Here

Front Page Magazine Here

Military Voter Protection Project: Here

BreitBart Here

Townhall: Here

Fox News Here

The Blaze Here






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29 posted on 12/01/2012 11:52:15 AM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN)
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To: patriot08

I think we all knew Obama wasn’t leaving. If he couldn’t win it through fraud, force was the next option. Actually, we should be grateful, I think he would have pulled a “nuclear” option if needed be. Think of it, there could be blood running in the streets this Christmas, no matter what, he wasn’t giving up his power.


30 posted on 12/01/2012 12:00:34 PM PST by Toespi
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31 posted on 12/02/2012 9:03:44 PM PST by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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