This is a pretty good read. I thought this part about the lack of early attack ads against Obama was interesting:
In 2011, something unexpected happened: nothing. The predicted onslaught was
largely absent, giving the campaign in Chicago the time and resources to set up
the organization a full year before the general election. Without having to
respond to negative advertising, the campaign spent its time and money on
preparation.
“One of the great mysteries was why they waited so long,” a third senior
Obama campaign official said. “We were like the Brits during World War II,
staring at the sky waiting for the bombs to fall. They never came.”
And this part about Romney's initial reaction to Benghazi is also intriguing. I knew that something like this probably happened within the Romney Campaign (these kinds of things are bound to happen when you surround yourself with neo-cons):
By sunrise the next day, it was clear to Romney that they had acted too
quickly. The campaign learned that four Americans had been killed in an attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, including
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Even to some Republicans, Romney’s hasty
statement looked insensitive.
“We screwed up, guys,” Romney told aides on a conference call that morning,
according to multiple people on the call. “This is not good.” His advisers told him that, if he took back his statement, the
neoconservative wing of the party would “take his head off.” He stood by it during an appearance in Florida.
And I liked this part about Biden's debate:
Unlike Obama, Biden had been preparing [for his debate], off and on, for months. Advisers had
put together one hundred questions that Biden should expect to get, and during
even the smallest windows of free time on Air Force Two, they would quiz the
vice president: “So why is the economy better off than it was four years
ago?”
“I’m nervous,” Obama told him during a call on the day of the debate,
according to advisers. “Is this how you felt when you were getting ready to
watch me?”
Hours later, Biden turned in an aggressive defense of the
administration’s record. Before he had even left the stage at Centre College in
Danville, Ky., he was handed a mobile phone.
It was Obama calling with congratulations.
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I was thinking over lunch today that your troll might be on to something in explaining why the Republicans lost. Remember the suggestion that the election would turn for the Republicans once the Republicans got off work and voted? Ok. Now bear with me. The Republicans have spent the last four years doing everything they can to supress and to make voting more difficult believing that the more people that vote, the worse their chances are. Well, if all democrats are female latina crack addicts that have given birth to eight children with eight different men and who are just sitting around waiting to cash the next welfare check, and all Republicans are hard working white males whose taxes go to support the Democrat, who do you think has more time to sit around waiting in an eight hour long line to vote? That's right, the Democrat. Joe Republican gets off work drives by the polling station sees a two mile long line and thinks "fuck that!" What sweet irony that the Republican's efforts to suppress the vote just ended up suppressing their own vote.
That's sort like the whole Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren deal. Obama wanted her to run that new consumer protective agency, but the Senate Republicans said no fucking way to Warren cos they hate her so much and there is no way they'd confirm her (i.e., they'd filibuster her).
So she withdrew her name, thus freeing her up to run for Senate, and she crushes Scott Brown and now she's a fucking Democratic Senator who's really going to make GOP Senators' lives miserable because she's going to be in the Senate every day making their lives miserable.
I find that hilarious.
I think I may have located your troll:
http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/11/the-end-of-liberty-in-america-only.html?m=1
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