The Party of Person Responsibility

Two days after the election reports of Romney and his campaign reaction to the results were published. CBS reported “that the campaign was unprepared for this in part because it had ignored polling that showed the races favoring Obama. Instead, it turned to its own internal ‘unskewed’ polls, which it believed more accurately reflected the situation on the ground. They didn't”.  One advisor said that Romney was “shell-shocked” at the results. Romney and his campaign were subconscious to polling that only favored himself rather than the more respective data. Just like donors for American Crossroad, they were lied to and personally escorted to a mental bliss through the campaign season. It’s a paradox of the campaign this year. Much of the attack advertising released by the Romney campaign was highly criticized by journalist and fact-checkers, which they would not provide a response to when mentioned. It would sidetrack a more elevated debate of the real issues because the campaign was stuck in the news cycle of the past 48 hours, neutralizing their own potential momentum.

 

            The post election stories have centered “blame” for the landslide defeat following the results of Florida that named President Obama the winner of their state. The results make the official electoral count of   332 to 206, and 50.6% to 47.9% for the president. Analysis from political reports suggest whether the base of the conservative party was too extreme for the voters, the candidate was too out of touch with the country, or his reoccurring pivoting on positions due to how far his party forced him in the primaries. Another source of blame also went to Karl Rove for the lack of results with so much money to their advantage. Karen Tumulty of the Huffington Post would say in her piece that it was a “$300 million dollar learning experience”

Election recollection (Election written)

Election Day has finally come! The 2 year process of primaries to the general election is about to come to an end. The punditry of who is right, who is wrong, who will take America back, and who will take America backwards comes to an end. All the predicting polling data will show which was more accurate all along. It is a true political junky’s Christmas morning, waking up to election coverage, eating a quick breakfast, and going to vote to your polling center, casting your ballot in hopes that your guy will win. My experience maybe a bit more exaggerated, but it’s what makes this day very different from others.

 

            Both, Republicans and Democrats feel very confident that they will get the victory. Something that has been different about this political season is the information how their positioning in the polls and news. For the past two weeks the Romney campaign has firmly believed that their private polling was the basis of how they would campaign would be ran. They have decided to neglect the bi partisan polling data and studies. When the Romney campaign released an attacking ad against the president stating that President Obama had cut the work requirement for welfare programs, many of the media journalist and press had criticized them for not telling the truth about the matter. The fact is that the president had reformed the program for states to handle the issue, something a conservative argument would fancy. When asked on why they would have a factual lacking ad on the air, Romney pollster, Neil Newhouse said “We will not have our campaign dictated by fact-checkers”. That’s right, the pollster said this. As a man who is hired to make his candidate as accurately informed, this is kind of a big deal. As reported here on The Huffigton Post by Sam Stein  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/mitt-romney-_n_1836139.html