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Top Ten Team Romney Blunders...

10. Let Detroit go bunkrupt; the auto industry is finished (Michigan and Ohio didn't seem to agree)

9. 54% of voters are women? (Who let that happen?)

8. Gosh, Golly, terms like 'legitimate rape' didn't go over too well. Who knew?

7. I believe in pro-life (....but not a woman's right to chose).

6. We agreed with the President's foreign policy on....

5. We've got to get the middle class working again (...so they can feed my rich buddies!)

4. We can't afford 4 more years (...of building peace and ending wars)

3. We've got to reach out to minority voters (why can't those farmers convince the blacks and hispanics to vote for me?)

2. I am not George Bush

1. Who the fuck named me 'Mitt' anyway?

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One of the most overlooked aspects of the election is the endorsements Obama got near the end of the campaign.

First and foremost was Sandy. Though Gov Christie of NJ did not give an endorsement but came as close as possible without saying it.

Mike Bloomberg and Colin Powell were very important members on the right, yet they saw the danger of someone like Romney winning.
 
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Republicans win or lose by white male votes. Democrats by everyone else. Romney went from Mittcare, to seriously conservative, then back to liberal so fast, those old white guys all got whiplash.

It just was a 2% drop in votes, but it cost him the election.
 
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DOUCHE.
 
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He did a 180 turn on everything he said during the campaign and then retracted the comments during the debates.

Did he think that fact checkers, News Broadcasters, and Jon Stewart / Bill Maher don't keep track of this stuff? He was laughable in the end.

Strapping his sick dog to the roof of his car while driving back from Quebec to Boston is a sign of an incredibly cruel person.

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NBC News did a great piece on how Obama's campaign team worked his firewall and the swing states.
In fact, they called the operation a "master class" on getting out your vote.

They had the demographics down to a fine science, county by county, calling thousands and thousands and thousands of people daily to get registered and to vote.

Romney never knew what hit him.

Super democracy won over super PACs.
 
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DOUCHE.
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Didn't really contribute to Romney's chances of winning. Looked like a pitcher in an MLB Home Run Derby in the debate against VP Joe Biden and can't even deliver his own state come election time. Rubio would have been a better choice. :nod:
 
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With respect to Romney personally, he probably should have withdrawn his support for Republican candidates that made extremely offensive comments. For example, Todd Akin and his "legitimate rape" comment as well as Richard Mourdock stating that pregnancy from rape was "God's will." When a leader does not discipline his subordinates it gives the impression that he agrees and, consequently, will result in a loss of votes from the electorate.

Also, the "binders of women" comment from Romney was both creepy and weird. I am sure that he offended many women which was immensely unwise as women became the majority of voters in this election.

Lastly, Romney should have stood up to the tea party element which is shifting the party further right than many Americans are willing to go. Perhaps he should have spent more time creating policies that are moderate (not just saying he is moderate in the first debate) in order to attract the swing voters.

However, not all of the blame should fall solely on Romney's shoulders as many of the policies of the party are outdated and inconsistent with the current demographics of the United States.
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There is no party discipline in US politics, it isn't like Canada. Each candidate is essentially an independent who gets endorsed by the local party members in a primary, but that is about it. They each have their own policies and ideas. Romney is not the party's leader.
 
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Hi Tugela,

Romney most certainly has the option, and I would even state obligation, to withdraw his endorsement of a candidate within the Republican Party.

During the campaign Romney maintained his ensorsement for Richard Mourdock after the "rape as God's will" controversy and continued to televise an advertisement of his endorsement. I have to say that the optics on that decision do not look good.

It is my opinion that effective political leaders are able to maintain a modicum of consistency within the public sphere.
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You are not well informed then. Mourdock was not standing on a platform of the consequences of rape, that was a minor comment that had nothing to do with the central issues he was campaigning on. He was giving an opinion that would be expected of someone with his religious views if they were not being hypocrites. He wasn't supporting or apologising for rapists, he was making a distinction between that act and the life that came about from it. The fetus had nothing to do with the rape and can't be held responsible for it according to the beliefs held by people like him. So, if your position is that life itself is an act of god and begins at conception (which is what folk like Mourdock think) then you would have to say what he said. He was not condoning rape in any shape or form, he was making a distinction between that and the act of terminating the fetus's life, which he regards as two separate things. Connecting the two things was made by other people. The Mourdock issue was not even remotely in the same category as someone like Akin, who is clearly just an ignorant idiot. It is disingenious to say that these guys are in the same category, that is purely political spin designed to make the other guy lose on emotive issues.

As for Romney, this is what his campaign said:

"Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock, and Mr. Mourdock's comments do not reflect Gov. Romney's views. We disagree on the policy regarding exceptions for rape and incest but still support him," said Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul.
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In other words he took the opposite view to Mourdock on that issue, but in the bigger picture, on greater issues he believed Mourdock to be the best candidate.

Edit: One more thing, Mourdock's opponent, Donnelly, the guy who won, is also pro-life. Did you see Obama denounce him? No, he supported him because he wants a Democrat in that senate seat. Why is it ok to insist that Romney do that to his party's candidate, but not Obama?
 
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Sonny said:
Paul Ryan lost as Romney's running mate in the Presidential race, but....

Unfortunately Ryan won his House of Representatives seat in his district area of Wisconsin, with 56% of the vote there.
So the USA is stuck with him again as the House's Budget Committee chairman.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/paul-ryan-loses-vp-bid-stays-house-20121107
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Its kind of like winning the presidents cup. Then getting knocked out in the first round.
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I think it's the other way around.

Ryan lost the Vice-President's cup, but he's still standing in the House of Representatives, ready to prepare his bid for the second round in 2016 as a GOP Presidential candidate.
 
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Why is it the people supporting the Republicans in this thread are defending these Anti Abortionists?

The game plan of the Republicans was to add two more Supreme Court Justices who support their 1950's way of thinking and reverse Roe V Wade.

It has been their game plan ever since they hooked up with the Evangelical's, Born Again's, and all the Tea Party Nutbars et al.

Romney and Ryan both said they would remove funding from abortions, birth control and planned parenthood. It's incongruent that they would also remove funding from Big Bird for the next generation of children born in the next four years.

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