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In the days since the election we have learned that President Barack Obamas campaign had an amazingly advanced and disciplined ground game that knew just what precincts and even voters to target and how to target them, based on polling information that predicted how the vote was going with uncanny precision. Yet Mitt Romney was the man running as the experienced manager, the man whose years running a business uniquely qualified him to run the biggest, most complex organization on earth, the federal government. That was his main, most consistent claim to the office. Now it looks more as if, though he may have been very good at buying and selling companies and extracting profit from them, he wasnt nearly as good at heading an effective complex organization as President Obama.
As a commenter on Andrew Sullivans blog summed it up,
Obama executed quantifiable long-term plans, adaptable short-term planning, an innovative GOTV initiative and plotted better ad strategies, while Romney had the ORCA trainwreck [see below], inaccurate internal polling, poorly informed managers and insufficient fiscal planning (e.g. coffers too low in July to react to the Obama ad blitz seems so minor league!). Not to mention its upper management was rewarded with bonuses in September, right after the languid convention and the embarrassing European trip.
The blogger Allahpundit has a very good post about the difference in the organizational success of the campaigns, in which he writes,
This was supposed to be Romneys strength, the reason to prefer him to Gingrich, Santorum, etc. Even if he didnt always seem so severely conservative, he could be trusted to hold his own against Team Hopenchange in a battle of the ground games. After all, thats his brand hes a managerial genius. If anyone could build a company capable of capturing the presidency, he could.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/11/10/romney-the-great-manager-not-nearly-as-good-as-obama-the-election-proved/
elleng
(131,028 posts)tax code vis-a-vis his tax obligations. THAT's what he does.
Raine
(30,540 posts)dodged a bullet on that one, whew.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)I think he would have gotten us into three wars
TeamPooka
(24,237 posts)from one of the articles linked in the link....
"Even with something as simple as buying airtime for ads, Romney reportedly used an unusual in-house system that made things more expensive than they needed to be."
So his crony's could bank more cash, I'm sure.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/08/how-romney-got-out-organized-by-obama/