{"id":66673,"date":"2019-11-21T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/11\/12\/huh-romney-campaigns-political-director-says-ground-strategy-worked-fine\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T07:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T07:11:56","slug":"huh-romney-campaigns-political-director-says-ground-strategy-worked-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/66673","title":{"rendered":"Huh? Romney campaign’s political director says ground strategy ‘worked fine’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JedediahBila\/status\/268081378132893696\n\n\n

Rich Beeson isn’t making sense here. “The numbers we needed to hit” were the ones that would have let them *win.* nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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National Review’s Katrino Trinko reports that Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign’s political director, has no regrets about the campaign’s get-out-the-vote strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“We turned out the groups we needed to on our side,” Beeson says, adding that Democrats “did a better job of turnout than we thought they could do. They did alter the electorate.”<\/p>\n

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“We hit the numbers we needed to hit. Our ground game turned out the people it needed to turn out. They just turned out more. They turned out 18 to 29 [year olds] at a higher level. They turned out African-Americans at a higher level. They turned out Hispanics at a higher level.”<\/p>\n

Beeson thinks that he did the best he could. And if you set reality aside, he did. His definition of “fine” must be the same as President Obama’s<\/a>. Meanwhile, Twitterers don’t think that Beeson has much to brag about:<\/p>\n\n\n

Rich Beeson and I have a different definition of “fine.” bit.ly\/RxLiM1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mitch Stewart (@Mitch_Stewart) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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That sound you hear is Rich Beeson continuing to shovel a pile of BS: bit.ly\/RxLiM1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Addisu Demissie (@ASDem) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@jedediahbila<\/a> Holy Moly! With advisors like Beeson, no wonder Romney lost!<\/p>\n

— Mark Claxton (@markjclaxton) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Gerry Daly (@GerryDales) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pretty sure that if your ground game turned out less voters than the other side’s, it didn’t “work fine”: nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Charles Homans (@chashomans) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Romney political director: ““We hit the numbers we needed to hit.” No, you didn’t. nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is what clueless looks like.Romney Political Director: ‘The Ground Game Worked Fine.’ buff.ly\/XyGBGN<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kelly Johnston (@johnston_kelly) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@johnekdahl<\/a> Beeson “We turned out the groups we needed to on our side” I guess so if the goal was to fall short of 08 numbers<\/p>\n

— Irwin Rosenrosen (@RealRosenRosen) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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@seanmdav<\/a> He was trying to hit a lower number of voters than 2008? What a maroon. You blew it, Beeson, admit it.<\/p>\n

— Matt McIntyre (@AntacidEX) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The Titanic’s watertight compartments worked fine” nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— CTIronman (@CTIronman) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The deck chairs were arranged nicely.” RT @katrinatrinko<\/a>: Romney Political Director: ‘The Ground Game Worked Fine’ bit.ly\/RxLiM1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Beeson contends that while Orca had its flaws on Election Day, it was a smart idea. “Did the overall system work the way that we wanted it to? No. But it is a good precursor for what I think we’ll want to be able to design and implement and improve on in coming elections? Absolutely,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Improve on” is the key. Orca really shouldn’t be held up as an example of what the Romney campaign did right.<\/p>\n\n\n

So Orca was good in the primary because it showed Romney winning when he won something. Good G-d. nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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As Twitchy reported last week, Project Orca was nothing short of disastrous<\/a>. If Beeson can’t own up to the mistakes made by him and the campaign, there’s little chance he’ll learn from them.<\/p>\n\n\n

Bold prediction: Rich Beeson will never work on another political campaign ever again.<\/p>\n

— John Ekdahl, Jr. (@JohnEkdahl) November 12, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sounds like a pretty safe bet.<\/p>

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JedediahBila\/status\/268081378132893696 Rich Beeson isn’t making sense here. “The numbers we needed to hit” were the ones that would have let them *win.* nationalreview.com\/corner\/333231\/… — Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) November 12, 2012 National Review’s Katrino Trinko reports that Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign’s political director, has no regrets about the campaign’s get-out-the-vote strategy: “We turned out the … Continue reading Huh? Romney campaign’s political director says ground strategy ‘worked fine’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}