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In reply to the discussion: GOP GOTV Volunteer Says: Team Romney "Unprecendented" Failure [View all]Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)20. It was actually more sophisticated than that -
until it was shut down in NE Ohio by alert OFA observers before the polls had been open an hour. R observers carried phone apps into the polling place and were asking every voter for their name and party affiliation.
Some persisted by dogging the check-in table, but by and large they were left perusing strike sheets posted twice a day. Since that meant they had to capture the strike sheet info and enter the info in batches rather than real time, it severely crippled the ability they anticipated to have the real time exit polling - at a rate approaching 100%.
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Idiots. If they'd won Florida, Virginia, AND Ohio, they'd've STILL lost the election.
Bucky
Nov 2012
#6
Amazing...and a good point about 75-80 year-olds...lots of volunteers are the retired...
joeybee12
Nov 2012
#16
if that's how they ran their campaign, can you imagine them running the country?!?
magical thyme
Nov 2012
#22
CEO mentality. Dump a load of shit on the underlings and expect them to do everything.
Scuba
Nov 2012
#25
ANOTHER ungracious and mendacious "We defeated ourselves" load of CRAP. TEAM OBAMA HAD BETTER IDEAS
WinkyDink
Nov 2012
#26
All that money and the volunteers still had to print out their top secret documents on their own
Skidmore
Nov 2012
#32
That's what the dumb fucks get for spending all their money on a bunch of stupid ads.
RBInMaine
Nov 2012
#37
Romney never ran a real business with real employees, so of course his operation failed. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#42