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Biggest mistake of the campaign? Republicans assumed voters were smart
http://www.joepags.com/blog/the-biggest-mistake-this-campaign-republicans-assumed-voters-were-smart/ ^ | Joe Pagliarulo

Posted on 11/11/2012 7:26:20 PM PST by oneprolifewoman

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Even if you don't agree with HL Mencken, I think you can kinda see where he was coming from when he said back in the day: "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
1 posted on 11/11/2012 7:26:34 PM PST by oneprolifewoman
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To: oneprolifewoman

With all apologies to PT Barnum, no one even went broke underestimating the American public. And no one ever got elected President overestimating them.

Nominating a candidate who doesn’t reflect the core values of your base and suppressing your own vote doesn’t help much, either.


2 posted on 11/11/2012 7:30:50 PM PST by SquarePants
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To: oneprolifewoman

Nail —> Head


3 posted on 11/11/2012 7:33:58 PM PST by indthkr
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To: oneprolifewoman
Biggest mistake of the campaign? Republicans assumed voters were smart

Hard to say it more succinctly than that, really.

4 posted on 11/11/2012 7:34:30 PM PST by ProfoundMan (Time to finish the Reagan Revolution!)
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To: SquarePants

Obama won 70% of the Hispanic vote and the GOP-e response? Grant amnesty and voting rights to 15 million more.

Pass on this vid if you agree how crazy this is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KnXz_qZ5RE


5 posted on 11/11/2012 7:35:50 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: oneprolifewoman

The Republicans are terrible at communicating. They do assume everyone knows what they are saying when they say nothing. And when they do speak, it’s with the wrong emphasis and weak words. They don’t know how to repeat.. to drum it in... or to convince.


6 posted on 11/11/2012 7:38:19 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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The only effective GOP communication was Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!”.


8 posted on 11/11/2012 7:42:50 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: icwhatudo
It's like this ~ the Republican party has been runningon BACKWARDS for several years. Whether or not he was a good manager the Republican party decided to fire their RNC Chairman who'd presided over their biggest victory in 70 years in 2010.

A smart move is to make it look like you are REWARDING victory.

We haven't yet fired Preibus, who presided over another major loss. He should have known to resign as soon as the votes were in. Somebody needs to tell him.

9 posted on 11/11/2012 7:42:54 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: yarddog

Encourage pigeons to roost on government buildings.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 7:44:11 PM PST by muawiyah
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Should have consulted the Wild Angels at Free Republic. Final tonight ... For all the FReepers that are ... Wild Angels ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XyqV3s2BFk
11 posted on 11/11/2012 7:49:42 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: muawiyah

Why?

To give them Psittacosis?


12 posted on 11/11/2012 7:50:09 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: oneprolifewoman

Let me add another Mencken quote:

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
—H. L. Mencken


13 posted on 11/11/2012 7:50:55 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: oneprolifewoman

“They gave the American people credit for being smart enough to know better. Millions are and do — but, unfortunately, more millions aren’t and don’t”

Exactly.... in the future politics will be a marketing game... issues and performance may impact 1/2 of the electorate the other half is pure puff. This election should have been a walk... but millions of voters never ever listen to the news - they listen to Vanity Fair, The View and Oprah.

See if conservatives learn.... (we won’t like it)


14 posted on 11/11/2012 7:51:32 PM PST by mike_9958
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To: oneprolifewoman
The mistake we made was to assume that voters believed in...and desired...self sufficiency.
15 posted on 11/11/2012 7:54:13 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: frnewsjunkie
The Republicans are terrible at communicating. They do assume everyone knows what they are saying when they say nothing. And when they do speak, it’s with the wrong emphasis and weak words. They don’t know how to repeat.. to drum it in... or to convince.

And the ones who CAN communicate? Like Rush, Levin, Palin- couldn't get elected to anything in a million years, even if they were willing to run for office. I think a lot of Americans hate these people's guts because they CAN communicate, and more importantly because they can communicate the truth. I think Americans "can't handle the truth" even when they do hear it.

16 posted on 11/11/2012 7:57:29 PM PST by Reddon
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To: oneprolifewoman
The Romney of the Florida primary never showed up to challenge Obama. He was as about limp wristed as any politician can be seeking voters love. Romney never included the TeaParty supporters, treated them as if they did not exist. Rather strange given Romney's claim to political fame is Governor of that liberal bastion of saint Ted Kennedy and John F. Kerry, where the first TEA PARTY took place not all that long ago.

Tea Party is NO government mandates/taxation without representation. It is not that difficult of a message to express. But no Romney got neutered and spayed because of his wealth accumulation getting taxed at a capital gains congress created tax rate.

17 posted on 11/11/2012 7:59:54 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: icwhatudo

“Obama won 70% of the Hispanic vote and the GOP-e response? Grant amnesty and voting rights to 15 million more.”

And the conservative response is to either stay home and wait for the perfect candidate or prop up candidates like Joe “Berlin Wall” Wilson and Todd Akin.


18 posted on 11/11/2012 8:04:22 PM PST by ari-freedom
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The Republicans are terrible at communicating.

One of the iron rules in advertising is that a consumer has to see or hear a message a minimum of 25 times before they decide to act.

19 posted on 11/11/2012 8:04:22 PM PST by Liberty Wins
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To: oneprolifewoman

Yup. Next time I’m watching O’Reilly and he sends Jesse Watters to to see how many people think Joe Biden got elected because he’s black, I’ll remember Mencken’s words.


20 posted on 11/11/2012 8:10:36 PM PST by bigbob
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