Posted on 02/28/2016 12:35:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Why do folks still trust this moe?
According to articles I've read, he has a near encyclopedic memory for minutia relating to voting demographics down to near the precinct level. Kind of like a walking version of Obama's famed / infamous Orca program.
The problem is, (this sentence is MY opinion) he filters this knowledge through a DC mindset: such that people "really want" amnesty but just haven't been "educated enough" or people would really want gay marriage if just the correct number of ads propagandizing them; he really, really thinks that if you use the right focus-grouped phrases to tell them, people will believe you if you piss down their back and tell them it's raining. (Note the correct usage of it's as a contraction for "it is"...)
Orca was Romney's 2012 GOTV disaster. But Obama's 2008 campaign built upon the concepts Rove used in 2004 and then improved it for 2012. Hopefully, whoever gets the GOP nomination will do the same.
Rove and his pals are the ones destroying the GOP. Trump is bringing in new voters and growing the party. It’s time for Rove to retire.
Whatever Obama's database effort was really called. (thorough)
Romney's Orca -- promised the moon but was an epic fail.
Either way fits Rove, depends on which aspect you which to emphasize.
(More graciously) -- I usually catch those kinds of details; thanks for pointing it out tactfully.
I know I emailed junior staffers articles about ORCA as an object lesson on how NOT to launch a system of any kind.
Trump tends to look for the most competent which money can buy, weigh their advice, and follow it where indicated. That being said, he is flying by his own instincts for the big picture right now, and doing better than any of the high-paid consultants said he ever could.
I honestly don't know who possesses the skillsets he needs for walking through the *logistics* of a national campaign (against all the Dem voter fraud / dirty tricks / "gotcha" questions, biased press and turncoats like the Romney consultants who openly backstabbed Palin)...who he can also trust is actually trying to *win*.
My main fear about Trump is he will not understand that he still has to have a good GOTV effort for the general. I hope his team will research the ORCA fiasco and learn lessons from it.
Why not send this thought/info to Trump Campaign.
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This is how to get something to Trump Campaign:
Put “trump campaign contact” in your search engine and it takes you to a direct email to the campaign. A short form to fill out and you too can contact the campaign. You have the option of receiving material from the campaign. They are usually about the coming rallies or what has happened during the week. You will never be asked for money. Nor will your email account be flooded with nonsense. You will however receive a polite thank you note!
I will say this about Trump and GOTV - both Rove and the two Obama campaigns had to invest in a lot of data and technology to increase their bank of potential voters. Trump is doing it through sheer force of personality. But building a serious GOTV machine will amplify that considerably.
Good idea, I’ll do that, thanks.
It's sad that you had the need to note that. How many sad realities of life are there?
Your words are so true and very sobering.
All the opinions flying around, the down and dirty opposition crap, all the trillions of comments just mean nothing anymore. The entire game has been exposed, and as sickening as it is, I am so thankful the truth is revealed for all to see.
I will never look at my government the same way again, and they have only themselves to blame.
Yes, and sadly, I will never look at the so-called conservative apparatus in the same way again. I grew up with William F. Buckley as a hero figure in my life and worked for Barry Goldwater as a teen. They would be mortified by what conservatism has become.
This whole experience is like a bad dream. Life changing. I won’t ever forget it.
Oh, I MIS spoke. I should have said the Greek or Polish lobbiests since we are well aware it’s their lobbiests crafting our statues with favors and payoffs to the oh so complicit politicians. The truth can be so offensive, so inconvenient.
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