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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney's donors and bundlers are NOT in a happy place.
BOSTON Advisers to Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that they were surprised by the scale of their loss to President Barack Obama, while big-time GOP donors griped about the campaigns unflinching confidence in the final stretch.
As results began to stream in Tuesday night, prominent Romney supporters in Boston tried to stay positive, reassuring themselves that there was still a path to the White House. But dejection quickly turned to anger a day after an Electoral College rout that shocked many who had heard self-assured projections about voter enthusiasm and turnout in private conference calls and meetings in the campaigns final stretch.
They ran a 20th century campaign in the 21st century, said one Romney bundler, frustrated that the campaign made assumptions about the youth vote and voter intensity that didnt pan out. The anger is that they were entrusted to do certain things. Its not like they were paid a $5,000 retainer to get a few dozen articles in an inside-the-Beltway paper. This is the major leagues.
Another Republican outside the Romney campaign but privy to its thinking described the defeat as a complete pummeling, with Senate losses adding salt to the wound.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83549.html#ixzz2BbAaZWPU
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Quite literally. Actual heads. Rolling.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,721 posts)considering how absolutely shocked and horrified he looked last night when Faux called Ohio for Obama. Maybe he'd arranged it so the fix would be in but then Husted chickened out because of all the scrutiny. KKKarl took a lot of money for his pro-GOP superpac and the donors didn't get squat for all their millions. People have found themselves sleeping wit' da fishes for far lesser offenses.
0rganism
(23,955 posts)He may be in some serious shit right now, which could explain his freak-out on Fox last night.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)"Karl, Karl, we had a deal! Now you can't deliver, why you put me in such a position, bro?"
msongs
(67,413 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)They didn't there was any chance Black and Hispanic voters would come out and vote for Obama again. lol
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)"When we buy an election we expect it to stay bought"
JHB
(37,160 posts)...and lost a lot of money on a swindler who told them what they wanted to hear.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)Duh. People having teens who grow up and are eligible to vote four years later, whatta concept.
Yeah. Their world is all white. So glad they got it handed to them. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)That the republican turnout had been way underestimated in Ohio and Florida, and that there was going to be a shocking upset!! They got me very worried, but. Now I know now that they even lie to each other.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)They thought they would fleece us.......and they ended up being fleeced!
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Maybe they were hamstrung by an unlikeable candidate, maybe they were trapped from appealing tto moderates by a rigid extremist party base, and maybe this was a learning moment for them. But, who's going to give them a billion dollars for another shot? I think there's more than one career down the tubes in that debacle.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)HIS head deserves to roll
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)aletier_v
(1,773 posts)StlMo
(3,595 posts)Democat
(11,617 posts)Perhaps it had nothing to do with winning, but rather it was a way to keep the checks coming in so that they could take that money and run after the loss?
DLnyc
(2,479 posts)Not one mention that maybe people don't like their stupid ideas!
" . . . paid a $5,000 retainer to get a few dozen articles in an inside-the-Beltway paper." So that's where these rabid articles in the WP come from?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)all I can say is: ahahahahahah Way to go Dems!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Translation: "We didn't pay guys like Rove and Ed Gillespie million$ for nothing and we expected dirty tricks if needed."
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)to do more cheating. They did plenty, but the voter response overcame it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,725 posts)TTUBatfan2008
(3,623 posts)Obama, Axelrod, Plouffe, Clinton, and rapidly changing demographics in the country are their worst nightmare.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)DAMN ... Laid him off .....
PLEASE make Rove and Armey suffer severe dislocation and want for their sins ....
Yeah - They can suffer with their millions ....
BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)heads will burst, and teeth will be gnashed.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)doing the ad blitz so late in the campaign. They could've started months earlier before Obama's team started going after Romney, when there were still plenty of undecided voters.