2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama
This is the article responsible for all the news of the last few days; "Daddy didn't really want to be President"...Ann and Tagg made him do it...that Romney conceded late because of Karl Rove, etc. Good article, worth the read but, six pages long.
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The story behind Mitt Romneys loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama
It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romneys political director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his better ground game, could lose the key state of Ohio or the election. The race is unmistakably moving in Mitt Romneys direction, the memo said.
But the claims proved wildly off the mark, a fact embarrassingly underscored when the high-tech voter turnout system that Romney himself called state of the art crashed at the worst moment, on Election Day. To this day, Romneys aides wonder how it all went so wrong.
They console each other with claims that the election was much closer than realized, saying that Romney would be president if roughly 370,000 people in swing states had voted differently. Romney himself blamed demographic shifts and Obamas gifts: federal largesse targeted to Democratic constituencies.
But a reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romneys problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidates defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obamas operation.
much more:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/2012/12/23/the-story-behind-mitt-romney-loss-the-presidential-campaign-president-obama/2QWkUB9pJgVIi1mAcIhQjL/story.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)He didn't show his damn tax returns.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)trumps everything. Obama should have lost (not on his merits or anything else), but he won because the Republicans ran a simply awful candidate. My biggest reason for voting for Obama (to propose a 20% tax reduction with the current tax rates and deficit was madness) was not necessarily a key for many other voters. A good economy patches up a multitude of ills.
The fact that a candidate as bad as Romney running a such a poor campaign can get so close should individuals pause as they think towards the future. 2 year and 4 years from now will be really ugly if the economy is still struggling along. Democrats will be punished mercilessly.
Cha
(297,323 posts)reading about that Loser mittLies after all the months and months of torture he put America through.
"..Candidate's personel qualities"..
Yeah, most of got that mittLies was a sociopath! Please do keep Insulting the intelligence of the American People, Romneys. We have more elections coming up that need to be reminded of your pathologies.