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