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Ms. Toad

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20. It was actually more sophisticated than that -
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:20 PM
Nov 2012

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%.

Orca? orwell Nov 2012 #1
Free Willard! KurtNYC Nov 2012 #8
DUzy malaise Nov 2012 #18
killer fail! nfm central scrutinizer Nov 2012 #24
Orca Republicans: the highest order of FAIL Berlum Nov 2012 #28
Orca is a killer whale (as in Shamu) n/t ET Awful Nov 2012 #33
I hear they mailed them an abacas and a polaroid camera. louis-t Nov 2012 #2
It was actually more sophisticated than that - Ms. Toad Nov 2012 #20
It seems pretty clear now that many of the people running enough Nov 2012 #3
"In it for the money..." Yup. Why else would anyone back Romney-Ryan Berlum Nov 2012 #29
They were in it for the lazy, cushy job. Like most Republicans are. randome Nov 2012 #30
"We had the latest technology in abacuses." OkieGranny Nov 2012 #4
The paid staffers had slide rules....eom lastlib Nov 2012 #14
Welcome to DU, OkieGranny! calimary Nov 2012 #54
You can't run a campaign like a business, Mr. Romney. Bicoastal Nov 2012 #5
Idiots. If they'd won Florida, Virginia, AND Ohio, they'd've STILL lost the election. Bucky Nov 2012 #6
Rmoney Epic Fail! L0oniX Nov 2012 #7
And Romney and company were suprised they lost? ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #9
You KNOW they did... dchill Nov 2012 #39
Thanks for posting this KurtNYC Nov 2012 #10
Yeah--like insisting on hackable electronic voting tblue37 Nov 2012 #49
As a fellow DU'er said the other night, GOP's Orca = Killer Fail Bigleaf Nov 2012 #11
Didn't I see a story about their Orca app crashing on election day? PA Democrat Nov 2012 #12
This is what happens when Republicans try to do GOTV. wildeyed Nov 2012 #13
That whale got beached. tanyev Nov 2012 #15
Amazing...and a good point about 75-80 year-olds...lots of volunteers are the retired... joeybee12 Nov 2012 #16
One of them did reference how "we leave that to the blue-hairs," didn't they? calimary Nov 2012 #53
They had no idea how to set up an operation like what Obama and co had. Jennicut Nov 2012 #17
Maybe they should have recruited a--wait for it-- tblue37 Nov 2012 #50
:) leeroysphitz Nov 2012 #52
When they finally write the definitive book about the Romney campaign… MrScorpio Nov 2012 #19
Not only that, but their candidate sucked XemaSab Nov 2012 #27
You just covered all my points, I couldn't agree more. WHEN CRABS ROAR Nov 2012 #47
I'm reading every one of the comments -- this is schadenfreude week for me. Jim Lane Nov 2012 #21
if that's how they ran their campaign, can you imagine them running the country?!? magical thyme Nov 2012 #22
Uh, Orca killed people. I saw the movie. JaneyVee Nov 2012 #23
CEO mentality. Dump a load of shit on the underlings and expect them to do everything. Scuba Nov 2012 #25
ding ding ding Tumbulu Nov 2012 #40
ANOTHER ungracious and mendacious "We defeated ourselves" load of CRAP. TEAM OBAMA HAD BETTER IDEAS WinkyDink Nov 2012 #26
Shitty candidate for shitty party of shitty people jsr Nov 2012 #31
All that money and the volunteers still had to print out their top secret documents on their own Skidmore Nov 2012 #32
No, This Was Not A Difference Maker DallasNE Nov 2012 #34
Because they were planning to STEAL it! Duh! loudsue Nov 2012 #35
I'm glad heaven05 Nov 2012 #36
That's what the dumb fucks get for spending all their money on a bunch of stupid ads. RBInMaine Nov 2012 #37
Lawrence O'Donnell: PBO GOTV - 109,000 volunteers & > 200,000 on phones ffr Nov 2012 #38
It was a consultant con job RomneyLies Nov 2012 #41
That's what it sounded like to me too underpants Nov 2012 #44
There's an idiot on that board who likens not voting for Romney jsmirman Nov 2012 #51
Romney never ran a real business with real employees, so of course his operation failed. nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2012 #42
Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen underpants Nov 2012 #43
Speaking as a Dem field director, I have two words to say tabbycat31 Nov 2012 #45
The Twit said he would run the government like a corporation Jack Rabbit Nov 2012 #46
What?! Sorry, mittLies was too busy.. Cha Nov 2012 #48
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