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The Inside Track On Obama's Victory And Romney's Defeat [Why Romney's Silence on Benghazi]
Guardian (UK) ^ | November 11, 2012

Posted on 11/11/2012 10:50:55 AM PST by Steelfish

The Inside Track On Obama's Victory And Romney's Defeat

As some of the campaign's richer inside scenes and better kept secrets, here are some of the highlights...

The Obama quants

Basically, the Obama campaign had a roomful of Nate Silvers, physically separated from the rest of its campaign operation and the precise nature of their work a closely held secret.

From the beginning, campaign manager Jim Messina had promised a totally different, metric-driven kind of campaign in which politics was the goal but political instincts might not be the means. Romney on Benghazi: "We screwed up"

(snip) Mitt Romney felt sharp regret for what he came to see as his camp's botched response to the attack in Libya on the anniversary of 9/11.

"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi," Romney said in a statement at the time. "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."

After the statement was released, it emerged that US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans had been killed. President Obama reproached Romney for prematurely airing his criticism. It turns out Romney agreed.

"We screwed up, guys," Romney told aides on a conference call the next morning, according to "multiple people on the call" interviewed by the Washington Post. "This is not good."

The Post quotes a senior adviser describing Romney as "snake bit" by the incident, meaning the candidate was unwilling to criticize the president on Benghazi late in the campaign despite a full-court-press on the part of Fox News and the conservative grassroots to make it an issue.

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To: Steelfish

No. Romney could have shouted Benghazi everday and all day long and it wouldn’t have mattered. He could have run poltical adverstisements 24/7 and it wouldn’t have mattered.

It wouldn’t have mattered because Obama DIDN’T win the election, he STOLE it!!! Right now, we are witnessing the most massive fraud and the biggest theft in American history and you’re all pointing fingers at each other instead of the thief - Obama!!

I am dumbfounded that the people on FR who, for the past 4 years, have posted what a liar, thief, incompetent loser Obama is and how he is the worst president in our history are buying into this BULLCRAP that he legitimately won the election!! If 100+% of a countiy’s registered voters vote for Obama by 99% to 1% for Romney, THAT’s not only suspicious, it’s CRIMINAL!!


21 posted on 11/11/2012 12:56:49 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Steelfish
Why Romney's Silence on Benghazi

Romney was doomed either way.

If he attacked Obama over Benghazi he knew the press would rush to Obama's defense and then mount a vicious attack against him (Romney) for daring to challenge their messiah.

And most of the public would go along with the press, as they have been doing since Obama announced his first candidacy in 2007.

The press handed this election to Obama and vote fraud slammed the door.


22 posted on 11/11/2012 1:04:11 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then." -- Philip K. Dick)
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To: Steelfish
Romney’s silence may have ironically cost him the election.

He only lost an election, we lost a Republic. Damn the GOPe to He77.

23 posted on 11/11/2012 1:07:42 PM PST by itsahoot (Any enemy, that is allowed to have a King's X line, is undefeatable. (USS Taluga AO-62))
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To: paglia444
What voters cared about Libya? Hispanics? Young white females? Blacks? Blacks think “Libya” is a rap singer. THe only people who cares about it are older white males, who were voting for Romney anyway.

Bingo

The only group not voting as racists are caucasians and they are slowly but surely moving toward minority status.

24 posted on 11/11/2012 1:11:04 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: Iron Munro

The press handed this election to Obama and vote fraud slammed the door.


Good summary.

When you can show someone on tv who cant read or write , sitting there with an Obama picture on her lap, and someone filling out her baallot then
You know we are screwed.

This was shown on Fox affiliate here in southeast Fla.

Not a critical commentary, more of a puff piece on how proud she was to vote.

Oh, I forgot..... She is a minority also....


25 posted on 11/11/2012 1:21:38 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: itsahoot
He only lost an election, we lost a Republic.

The problem is not the GOP; the problem is the opposition. The GOP is outvoted. It needs to increase its percentage of one of the demographic groups and there is no sure solution. When Reagan won in 1980 vs. Romney loss in 2012, the demographic makeup of the voters was:


26 posted on 11/11/2012 1:26:26 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: itsahoot
He only lost an election, we lost a Republic.

The problem is not the GOP; the problem is the opposition. The GOP is outvoted. It needs to increase its percentage of one of the demographic groups and there is no sure solution. When Reagan won in 1980 vs. Romney loss in 2012, the demographic makeup of the voters was:


27 posted on 11/11/2012 1:34:35 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: Sirius Lee

LOL. Pefect!


28 posted on 11/11/2012 1:36:22 PM PST by gotribe
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To: af_vet_1981
The problem is not the GOP; the problem is the opposition.

The numbers indicate the opposition is plainly and obviously racist.

29 posted on 11/11/2012 1:38:22 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: YankeeReb

Unbelievably, that’s not even what he’s talking about. He now regrets putting out the statement castigating the Administration for apologizing for the video. Case study in why the GOP is dead. A perfect opening to destroy Obama on foreign policy and our candidate ends up regretting having even raised a peep in criticism.


30 posted on 11/11/2012 1:39:10 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: af_vet_1981

You nailed it. It is gone, probably forever.

The minorities in this country now reflexively hate us and will always vote against us. Whites will continue to drift our way, but at much too slow a pace to overcome the rapidly growing Hispanic and Asian populations.

All that is left now is to watch the economy crash and burn, and to try to avoid (or fight) the religious persecution that is most assuredly coming our way.

The only slight satisfaction I will take is in watching the white liberals eventually being swept away as well and becoming hated just as much as we are.


31 posted on 11/11/2012 2:00:12 PM PST by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Steelfish

I don’t think Romney would have been much different than Obama.


32 posted on 11/11/2012 2:13:00 PM PST by RedwM
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To: af_vet_1981
The GOP has given us moderate liberal candidates for quite some time. The GOP is moving to the left and expecting us to move with them. Case in point: Illegal immigration has been a growing issue for decades. Now days, however, EVERY-body is pandering to them; at who's expense? It isn't even immigration... it's a full blown invasion. Already, we are hearing, "WE MUST change our course on our immigration views and policies."

Papa Bush made it clear, we are heading to a globilization. Sovereignty and borders are pesky nuisances. (And I worked the phone banks; walked the streets; pounded yard signs; went to national; had my child in the young Republicans... for that guy.)

The GOP is a large part of the problem. Political correctness, globalization, and NWO is where they are herding us; desenders will not win elections, or anything else. In fact, if the Bible is true, that very ideology will become more prevelant.

33 posted on 11/11/2012 2:13:05 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. Samuel Adams)
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To: Steelfish

I don’t think working this issue would have helped. Romney started off strong attracting many democrat voters...we had a chance. Once he announced that he would create 12 million jobs, they abandoned him in droves.


34 posted on 11/11/2012 2:15:48 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10))
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To: Steelfish

I don’t think working this issue would have helped. Romney started off strong attracting many democrat voters...we had a chance. Once he announced that he would create 12 million jobs, they abandoned him in droves.


35 posted on 11/11/2012 2:16:14 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (The fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10))
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To: Steelfish

Anybody that thinks Obama abandoning 4 Americans would have an effect on Obama voters just doesn’t understand the left. They don’t care if Obama left them to die.


36 posted on 11/11/2012 2:18:47 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: paglia444
What voters cared about Libya? Hispanics? Young white females? Blacks? Blacks think “Libya” is a rap singer. THe only people who cares about it are older white males, who were voting for Romney anyway.

Excellent. And truthful.

37 posted on 11/11/2012 2:20:44 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
I don’t think working this issue would have helped. Romney started off strong attracting many democrat voters...we had a chance. Once he announced that he would create 12 million jobs, they abandoned him in droves.

Very good!

38 posted on 11/11/2012 2:25:00 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Steelfish

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Sign the petition for a recount:
http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

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Visit this site.
http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

They are keeping a running account of cases of voter fraud and what to do about it:
http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

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SATURDAY UPDATES (Thurs and Fri fraud at site)

Military service members purged from voter rolls in Florida...
http://redflagnews.com/military-service-members-purged-from-voter-rolls-in-florida

Pundit Press: In Florida: Obama Got Over 99% in Broward County Precincts
http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/in-florida-obama-got-over-99-in-broward.html?spref=fb

TRR: Allen West Seeks Recount Amid Growing Vote Count Scandal
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/nov/9/allen-west-asks-recount-amid-growing-vote-count-sc/

[This is the same St. Lucie that has 141.1% voter turnout affecting both Romney and West...]

St. Lucie County - 84 juridictions, 83 of them had 121-166% turn out
http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf

Nevada Unions Are Regestering Illegals and Forcing Them to Vote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGd50sZG4g&feature=share

The video suggests that this method was the only way Harry Reid was able to defeat challenger Sharon Angle in 2010 to retain his Senate seat and continues to be used.

via Jewel on Facebook: “Could you please help us? There is a petition for a recount and it takes 28,000 signatures. We are all promoting it and would love to have you on our side. The link to sign the petition is:”
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpetitions.whitehouse.gov%2Fpetition%2Frecount-election%2FZQmy0Mlv%23thank-you%3Dp&h=4AQEgo5BK

Another petition, this one to Congress:
http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

You can also request that Reince Preibus of the GOP start a swing state recount based on information available at this website and as part of ORCA (Thanks Shirley!):
http://www.gop.com/contact-us/

I’ve added links to all three petitions to the sidebar at the top of this page and expect to add more.

Voter Fraud by the numbers? Absolutely
http://www.altadenagroup.com/CSIA/post_details.asp?p_ID=10774

Thank you to everyone who is sharing this page! As of Saturday morning, we are getting about 3,000 visitors an hour. You are making a difference!

SUNDAY UPDATES

This one is MUST SEE:

“Obama won 100% of the 900,135 votes cast in Cuyahoga County OH! No votes from new registered voters or indies went to Mitt. Voting officials SHOULD BE ARRESTED BY OUR MILITARY FOR SEDITION & PERPETRATING A FRAUD AGAINST ALL OF AMERICA. A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT WILL BE FILED against the networks for not telling the truth! view pic.”
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3474982207064&set=a.1633846179814.70439.1646473511&type=1&theater

Summary Photo
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534531_3474982207064_881171232_n.jpg

Throw out this all-fraud county and Mitt wins Ohio, no question!

Why? A total of 5,364,324 “people” voted in Ohio. Obama got 2,691,861 votes, while Romney got 2,584,620, a difference of 107,241 votes.

How did Cuyahoga County’s 900,135 votes affect the final result? You do the math.

For Ohio to certify this result would be a crime in and of itself.

Thank you to the Examiner for mentioning us!

Citing voter fraud, petition at White House web site demands recount of election
http://www.examiner.com/article/citing-voter-fraud-petition-at-white-house-web-site-demands-recount-of-election

Thanks also to The Competent Conservative for quoting us in entirety!

Is There Enough Evidence of Voter Fraud To Merit a Recount?
http://thecompetentconservative.com/is-there-enough-evidence-of-voter-fraud-to-merit-a-recount/

Much more to come! As one of our commenters below said, voter fraud is like cockroaches. You find one and they are likely everywhere. Cuyahoga County, Ohio is obviously not alone!

Here is a petition you can sign at Change.org to request a full recount. I suggest we just focus on the swing states, but it is true that many Congressional and Senate races are also affected, from Allen West to, I believe, Mia Love. Mia was up by 10% the week before the election and lost by 3,000 votes to Matheson in a state that went 73% for Romney. Not likely!

http://www.change.org/petitions/united-states-federal-election-commission-we-demand-a-full-recount-of-the-2012-presidential-election

Military votes not counted?
http://nera.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=191%3Amilitary-ballots-not-counted&catid=81%3Ablog1&Itemid=148

The Columbus Dispatch reports, “Voter rolls in Ohio are bloated, experts say”
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/16/voter-rolls-in-ohio-are-bloated-experts-say.html

An update on St. Lucie County, Florida:
http://watchdogwire.com/florida/2012/11/10/update-massive-voter-fraud-in-st-lucie-county-florida-called-into-question-141-turnout/

Video: More fraud from Florida, including kicking out an elderly poll observer doing his job using the police:
http://www.bizpacreview.com/elections-supervisor-calls-police-to-kick-elderly-allen-west-ballot-observer-out/

Townhall blogger Rachel Alexander reports:

Obama Likely Won Re-Election Through Election Fraud
http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/11/obama_likely_won_reelection_through_election_fraud

The Washington Times: Florida Vote Twist: More Ballots Than Voters
http://m.washingtontimes.com/blog/robbins-report/2012/nov/10/florida-vote-twist-more-ballots-voters/

Here is a link to Allen West’s press release on the voter fraud situation in Florida:
http://bit.ly/TCYnUe

Newsmax reports: Voter Fraud Charges Begin in Ohio

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ohio-voter-registration-fraud/2012/11/03/id/462674

Darin Southam recommends TrueTheVote.org for some pre-election indications of potential voter fraud, but the page understates what actually happened in pretty much every swing state.
http://www.truethevote.org/news/how-widespread-is-voter-fraud-2012-facts-figures

And what do you think of this? This was way before the election, but apparently George Soros, who we have already established rigged an election in Hungary and was banned for it AND helped get Obama elected the first time... I’ll let you read the headline:

“Soros advises Obama to use forceful measures to override the will of the people”
http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=12336

I think this goes well beyond the 900+ executive orders that go around Congress, more than three times the executive orders given by all previous US Presidents combined. We saw it in action Tuesday, November 6th!

A Tea Party group has posted this article, with interesting stats and some criticism for Romney for not standing up and doing something about it yet:
http://teapartyorg.ning.com/m/discussion?id=4301673%3ATopic%3A1108645

Personally I think as the case is strong enough, Mitt will do something. Too much is at stake, and as we just found out, Ohio is definitely Mitt’s, and Florida, too, just based on fraud in a few counties! Colorado, too!

Keep up the referrals and the sharing, everyone! Thank you SO much for helping America fix an election that has clearly been “fixed.”

Voter fraud cheapens the votes of the 60 million who picked Mitt to the point of nothingness and gives weight to those who in reality were the minority. If grand theft is defined as any theft over $5,000, what do you call the ONE BILLION times that that is likely to happen AGAIN over the next four years if we do not right this wrong?

Here is to our real President Elect and First Lady, Mitt and Ann Romney.

Posted by Jed M. Merrill at 1:56 PM 68 comments:


39 posted on 11/11/2012 5:42:40 PM PST by patriot08
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To: All



Sign the petition for a recount:

http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

Visit this site. They are keeping a running account of cases of voter fraud and what to do about it:

http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/






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

https://www.facebook.com/lori.patriot/posts/404694619604138



Must watch videos!


VIDEO-- Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY



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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0



VIDEO- Michael Savage: How Obama fixed the 2012 election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc



VIDEO- Massive voter fraud discovered in April:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0



VIDEO- Whistle blower speaks out about voter fraud: http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=k_rMpQKqZhM





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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!




40 posted on 11/11/2012 5:43:34 PM PST by patriot08
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