Good.
One man openly wept....
There is no more battery of aides making sure he has the peanut butter and honey to make his beloved sandwich. Instead, some Republicans speculate he’ll return to being an outcast in his own party and could relocate to the West Coast to start anew without the harsh glare of the national political spotlight.
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"For Romney camp, a high-tech meltdown on Election Day; Online voter-turnout setup crashed Tuesday" by Michael Kranish | Globe Staff, November 10, 2012
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s online voter-turnout operation suffered a meltdown on Election Day, resulting in a crucial 90-minute “buckling” of the system in Boston and the inability of some campaign workers across the country to use a vital smartphone program, according to campaign officials and volunteers.
Code-named ORCA, the program was kept secret until just before the election in order to prevent hacking of the system. It was then trumpeted by Romney’s aides as an unrivaled high-tech means of communicating with more than 30,000 field workers who were stationed at polling places on Election Day. Those volunteers were supposed to track who voted and to alert Boston headquarters if turnout was lower than expected at key precincts.
But....
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"Romney blames loss on ‘gifts’ to Obama backers" by Ashley Parker | New York Times, November 15, 2012
NEW YORK — A week after losing the presidential election to President Obama, Mitt Romney blamed his overwhelming electoral loss on what he said were big ‘‘gifts’’ that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies — including young voters, African-Americans, and Hispanics.
In a conference call on Wednesday with his national finance committee, Romney said that the president had followed the ‘‘old playbook’’ of wooing specific interest groups with targeted gifts and initiatives.
“In each case they were very generous in what they gave to those groups,’’ Romney said.
‘‘With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift,’’ he said.
Some gift!
‘‘Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people.’’
The president’s health care plan, he added, was also a useful tool in mobilizing African-American and Hispanic voters. Though Romney won the white vote with 59 percent, according to exit polls, minority voters coalesced around the president in overwhelming numbers — 93 percent of black voters and 71 percent of Hispanic voters backed Obama.
‘‘You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000, or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge,’’ he said. ‘‘Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus. But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called Dream Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.’’
In the 20-minute call, Romney was by turns disappointed and pragmatic, expressing his frustration that he’d failed to defeat Obama on Election Day.
‘‘I’m very sorry that we didn’t win,’’ he said on the call. ‘‘I know that you expected to win, we expected to win, we were disappointed with the result, we hadn’t anticipated it, and it was very close but close doesn’t count in this business.’’
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"Mitt Romney ‘gifts’ remark raises ire within GOP" by Brian MacQuarrie | Globe Staff, November 15, 2012
After stumping hard for Mitt Romney in the presidential campaign, several of the Republican Party’s rising stars are now berating him as divisive and potentially damaging to the GOP’s future.
Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Scott Walker of Wisconsin assailed Romney’s comments this week that President Obama’s reelection was due to “gifts” he lavished on such “special-interest groups” as minorities, women, and young people.
The governors have been joined by important party strategists such as Steve Schmidt, who managed Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, and Ana Navarro, a leading Hispanic adviser, who tweeted on Thursday:
“As if he didn’t do enuf harm to GOP w/Latinos, he leaves us THIS parting ‘gift.’ ”
For a party that predicted victory right up to Election Day, this rising criticism seems to reflect an urgent desire to put distance between Romney’s words and a sense that the GOP needs to retool in a more diverse America.
Related: Post-Election Aftermath: The Changing Face of the GOP
“We have got to stop dividing the American voters,” Jindal said in Las Vegas at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association....
Yeah, especially since 80+ percent (black, white, Hispanic, Asian, women, men) want a GOOD, DECENT, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, and an END to the WARS for EMPIRE!!
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Goodbye, asshole!
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