November 23, 2012 - 11:59 pm
Many pollsters (including Barone himself) predicted a Romney win, but were proven wrong on Election Day 2012. Did pollsters fail to account for cellphone users, or did Romney fail at turning out the GOP vote? Did voter fraud play a role? Find out as Michael Barone analyzes the results of the 2012 election with Glenn Reynolds.
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Let’s not forget the politics of personal destruction. Obama spent millions painting Romney as someone to be feared by women, minorities, young people, elderly, etc. This went on for quite some time and was not adequately addressed by the GOP.
Most of the efforts were based on lies, but they were effective. The emotion of fear is quite powerful when attempting to get voters stampeding to your side. Romney’s team should have engaged in lying about Obama in ways to strike fear in the minds of voters who otherwise found him “likable”.
Rather than try to expose Obama from what little was known, they should have attacked his character, his background, his racial identity, and his marxism ‘tabloid style’. Done properly, six out of ten low-information-voters wouldn’t have wanted this guy anywhere near their wives or children, much less vote for him.
Essentially, this election was decided by one team taking the High Road while the other took the Low Road. It would be a mistake to do it again in 2016. The Dems will know they’re in a real fight when we appear on the Low Road ready to lock horns with them, and no sooner. They are not the masters of fear that they think they are, even with a mushroom cloud wrecking a little girl’s daisy picking excursion. Someone once said the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself.
When it comes to election time, you better damn well believe it.
Stop being useful idiots for Soros and the radical left. There is a very simple reason people failed to predict Obama’s victory: it wasn’t a victory. It was a result produced by fraud.
Read “Master Plan to Steal an Election” at http://www.brushfires-of-freedom.com/steal-an-election.html Ask yourself if it rings true…of course, it couldn’t happen in America.
But it did.
yeah….ok. Console yourself to sleep at night, wearing your aluminum foil hat, believing in such crackpot nonsense. Ha, what kooks you people are.
Well….when you guys get a taste of your own “Willie Horton” tactics, is doesn’t feel too great does it? Too bad. The Democratic/Left learned from Karl Rove and surpassed him.
Willie Horton was guilty of murder. Romney was guilty of being a success (quite a sin by Lefty standards). And yes, the Chicago Machine did quite a bang-up job smearing Romney but it doesn’t end there. You see, the gloves come off in 2016 (if not sooner).
Good luck fielding a candidate (black or white) for the next election who’ll not be fertile ground for the millions of superpac dollars that will be focused on destroying like never before. The recipe for victory is there for all to see: create fear in the sheep/voter and have them stampede to your side. The October Surprise confirms this.
Steeped in four more years of socialist feces, the people will be eager for “change” and that’s assuming we get that far- what with this Present’s penchant for lazy screw-ups. Not sure how long people will be able to hold their breath while the stench of collectivism grows around them like a smelly tent. Occupy that.
It’s simple, they thought America was Still America.
I’m personally sick of listening to michael barone. He clearly doesn’t know his ass from a whole in the ground.
He predicted a Romeney landslide,not even close.
Sure fraud was involved but to what extent?
Truth be known barone was clueless
I think Women did not Vote for Romney because he was Mormon
The thing about a man with 10 wives
Which is not true now, was true in the past with Mormons
Women don’t like that
They all want to be * The One *
And there are Men who did not Vote because of that too
P.S.
I Voted for Romney
In trying to sift through to the truth of what happened, that should be considered.
people say – They are not voting because of that(To look good)- But is it the truth.
America just reelected a Communist as president….to hell with America.