For several weeks, politicians and pundits from the beltway to newsrooms have analyzed the results and implications of this historic election. While some make valid points, few have articulated the real reasons why Republicans didn’t fare as well as they hoped. Even fewer have given a direction for what it takes to be successful going forward.
Working on both the Mitt Romney campaign as his national coalitions director and the Rick Santorum campaign as his national campaign manager, perhaps I have a unique perspective. As a coach on the field understands better than an announcer in the booth why his team lost, the same applies in politics.
For the past decade, our country has been in a political flux, with the partisan pendulum swinging sharply from the left to right election after election. Nov. 6 looked to be a culmination of this with Republicans coming off a very successful midterm election in 2010 and a President who remained unpopular.
We were greatly mistaken. As the millions spent on the airwaves by both parties in critical swing states became white noise and each candidate made his own mistakes throughout the race, it is clear that this election was won on the strength of a superior ground operation.
While Republicans became overconfident from their successes in the last midterm, Democrats buckled down immediately and began to identify their voters. To those saying the GOP must water down and moderate its platform, let us remember that not once did those on the political left moderate their policies. Rather, they began by systematically revving up each section of their base.
Read More at unionleader.com . By Michael Biundo.
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It's amazing that no one seems to be talking about the Democrats'/Leftists' control of the vote-counting process. I think it was Joseph Stalin who said "I don't care about citizens' voting, as long as I am the vote counter." How is it not being discussed that George Soros acquired the company that counts the votes, and that attempts to investigate the computers and process used were denied because "the computer programs were proprietary"? There were a few articles commenting on the "strangeness" of results where 100% of votes, or all but one vote, in precincts, went for Obama…. and that was the end of it; no actual investigations. When you let such obvious, blatant fraud go unchallenged, you have surrendered; and all other discussions of causes of election losses are academic wastes of time, at best, and diversions from the real problem at worst.