Romney campaign caught off guard by fact that Obama staffers worked

he fined them for doing a bonus job?

maybe they should pay for the 8.9 million dollar transition plan they never got to use.

...keep that cash in his pocket, spend it on cars and homes. Of course, if he could have outsourced that phone banking and such from China, he might have matched Obama's numbers That's the way he knows how to do things when it comes to hiring rather than firing.

It is hard to imagine Mitt Romney, the scourge of vulture capitalism, being successful at anything if his public performance, during the campaign, is indicative of his competence.
I think the Bain model, Romney's contribution to the way Americans conduct business, must have been based entirely on a charade, adopt the look of a clean, religious character while lying and cheating to gain the upper hand in business negotiations.
There's not that much there to respect.

The shitty polling, the lack of a ground campaign, a candidate that foamed at the mouth every 5 minutes.

I mean how utterly fucking stupid do you have to be not to look around at what the other campaign is doing and know that you are being out-manned by 8-10 times your opponent in terms of paid staff.

Combined this with the story that was published where Romney's son said he didn't really want to be president, I have to wonder what the hell the Republicans were doing.

I think they were secure,in the knowledge,faulty as it was,that:A.The election was in the bag,due to vote swaps,(theft) and disenfranchisement,and:B.Being not just white,but COUNTRY CLUB white,(filthy rich),they would win by virtue of deserving to win......

"It's Our Turn"

published in the Boston Globe.

Link to Boston Globe article:
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

for more money to be spent on commercials, of course, the top-down approach conservatives always favor. He thought the crap coming from the Evangelical pulpits would do the rest. And they all bought their own Big Lie that the polls were somehow incorrect.

Non DLC Democrats, on the other hand, have always been all about the grass roots, getting out there and getting the vote out.

And yes it is.

They no longer exist as an organization.

Why would it now?

Romney just says give me more money for ads.

He also mentioned that the debates were important (and from his performance in the first debate you can see that he put a lot of effort into that).

If it was basically a draw, or Obama had won, the election would have basically been over at that time, and the only question was how big of a landslide it would be. In the few weeks leading up to the debate, Obama had been extending his lead because of the 47% comments and all the other gaffes Romney had made...

The Obama campaign focused on personal contacts to GOTV and the Romney campaign felt that the old ways used by the GOP would continue to work.

and not enough for the "Grunt" work. Out of the hundreds of millions spent, how much of that went to the one-percenters,? They certainly didn't want to lower themselves to one-on-one with puny little voters. They figured ad buys would make up for that.

Just another failure of the GOP world view.

I suspect there will be much arguing and hand wringing in Republican circles why Republicans stayed home.

I suspect some will argue Romney wasn't conservative enough.
I suspect others will argue Romney was too conservative.
I will admit I could never figure out what Romney stood for; he was Mister Etch-A-Sketch.

Any statistics how many Democrats stayed home for the 2012 election?

From a quick google search it seems President Obama won the minority vote.
The pundits seemed to guess wrong the size of the minority vote and how they would vote.

I expected Romney to win the white male vote.
My quick google search surprised me when I found claims Romney won the white female vote.
Is there any way to deprogram the white voters brainwashed by the FOX news propaganda?

no area, the Obama campaign refused to go. You want find Romney's campaign in areas that have heavy minority presence, except maybe Cubans in Florida. Whenever the Romney campaign say those people, I think they mostly meant minorities. I also think minority voters were who they wanted to suppress from voting. If anyone was race baiting, it was the Republicans. Most people don't want to push that envelope but lets be be frank about the real issue they have. Instead of speaking to issues that affect minority voters, they rather suppress them.

There is about 39-40 percent of the white population in this country which is liberal. Most of that population is regional also. Most of Romney's support among whites comes from the entire South also. This includes white women in the South. President Obama actually got more support among white males in North Carolina than white women. That would suprise some people. In 2008, he won more white women in the state but most of his drop in support this time was among white women in North Carolina. A lot of these women get married, and usually supports their husbands' careers while they stay home. So support among these women was soft anyway.

Why in the world would he spend money on them? They would never vote for him anyway.

And,former Senator Rick Frothymixture said the smart people would not vote GOP....Remember THAT?......

There used to be a direct link to whom ever spent the most won.

You know, like the lie that non-republicans are "lazy". Or, that people automatically just ran off to vote for Obama because, he's, you know, black. They also believed their money would buy them the election. Ooops. Guess not. LOL!

The reverse of that dreaded "community organizing" amongst the huddled masses.

She threw Mitts off his game by wearing that damn tiara around the house.

He shows that Romney out spent Obama by $100 million in ads but only gokt 20% of the spots.

they needed to direct most of that donated cash to their cronies' operations-- consulting, media buys, IT, etc. They weren't about to use that money to actually pay low-level operatives--you know, "grunts"--to do menial labor. If the big boys couldn't profit from an approach, then there was no incentive to use it.

"End of the Line," the new ebook about the last 34 days in both campaigns. It's a bit too "both sides" in a couple of places, but it' s interesting and offers some new insider info.

The ebook, which costs $2.99, is 66 pages long-- a quick read.

It's consistent with Romney's done his whole life, though - make sure a bit of the money that passes through his hands sticks to his fingers - or his cronies'.

corporate idiots

I was out canvassing nearly every day the 6 weeks before the election.