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2016 Postmortem

robinlynne

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1. Everyone is giving ORCA such importance. Orca, or any get out th vote on elciton day, is about getti

Reply to Up2Late (Original post)

Sat Nov 17, 2012, 12:55 AM

Nov 2012

getting citizens who are not planning to vote to the polls. I have worked doing this. I'm sure most of you have too. It is a vote here, a vote there. It doesn't really change an election, ever. It helps, but it is really only about the voters who were not going to vote for one reason or another.

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Beached Killer Whale, ORCA, Not 'Obama's Gifts' Beat Romney - Forbes [View all] Up2Late Nov 2012 OP

Everyone is giving ORCA such importance. Orca, or any get out th vote on elciton day, is about getti robinlynne Nov 2012 #1

I agree.. it was all those Multitudes of Mistakes before ORCA that did it.. Cha Nov 2012 #3

+1 Tarheel_Dem Nov 2012 #13

ORCA is a symbol of Romney's incompetance. But how many votes would it have yielded? Bucky Nov 2012 #16

Me thinks mittLies was too busy getting his "Transition Team" Ready to Take Cha Nov 2012 #2

Romney lost because people decided his vision for the country was bad alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 #4

I'm tired of the excuses. RandySF Nov 2012 #5

I agree, today was the first time I even heard of ORCA... Up2Late Nov 2012 #8

republican values and policies are what killed the beast nt msongs Nov 2012 #6

If ORCA had worked as planned, how would it have changed the outcome? Fridays Child Nov 2012 #7

I'm not saying any of that, I just posted an article someone else wrote for all to see... Up2Late Nov 2012 #10

Duh. I was arguing with the article. Not you. Fridays Child Nov 2012 #11

It wasn't just the failure of ORCA... VanillaRhapsody Nov 2012 #9

Welcome to DU VR RobertEarl Nov 2012 #12

Obama didn't actually end up needing either Ohio or Virginia. LisaL Nov 2012 #15

Orca wasn't going to make Romney into someone he wasn't. LisaL Nov 2012 #14

Sick of the excuses. You know what beat Romney. BARACK OBAMA. phleshdef Nov 2012 #17

kick Up2Late Nov 2012 #18