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Wow- The Real Reason Mitt Took So Long To Concede – Wow, Wow?


his computer models showed him he had over 300 ev – wow – more delusional than I would thought; Republicans asking Republicans how it is going and everything said on target. Wow – he believed it. SO glad he is not the commander in chief; so VERY VERY glad
Analysis: Why Mitt Romney may have taken so long to concede
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Challenger Mitt Rommey reportedly only wrote a victory speech for Election Day, so revisions would have taken some time. But did the obsession with polls and tracking also delay his concession?
In an election season dominated by names like Gallup, Rasmussen and Nate Silver, the Romney number crunchers had their own methods. A campaign release described Project ORCA as a “massive undertaking” involving nearly 35,000 volunteers and designed to “conduct the world’s largest exit poll” and win the White House.
The project operates via a Web-based app volunteers use to relay the most up-to-date poll information to a “national dashboard” at the Boston headquarters. … Another key component to Project ORCA is state-of-the-art dashboard. For the past several months, a “brain” has been built into this dashboard and it will take in, analyze and recommend actions on the millions of pieces of incoming data. In the fast-paced environment of an Election Day command center, having this programmed “brain” will alert decision-makers to key findings and suggest reallocation of resources.
The human brains behind that brain came as a result of what Slate reported as a “summertime personnel spree” that included engineers who used to work at Apple, Google Analytics, Omniture and even Overstock.com, as well as “commercially available services.”
The success, though, would have to depend on volunteer troops united by a Web-based smartphone app. Romney himself called these forces, armed with the technology, an “unprecedented advantage on Election Day.”
This faith in algorithms led Romney for President communications director Gail Gitcho to tell PBS, “At 5 o’clock, when the exit polls come out, we won’t pay attention to that … We will have had much more scientific information just based on the political operation we have set up.”
Political campaigns these days live or die by the analytics, and PBS pointed out the marine metaphors carried over to the Obama camp, which nicknamed its process Dreamcatcher and Narwhal, and then shifted to a vote-tracking system named—of all things—Gordon. Yet an Obama spokesperson also cast doubt on the opposing party’s strategy, telling the Huffington Post, “In a national campaign, what additional things are the headquarters really going to do to move resources … ? Will an additional auto-call last minute really make a difference in a market like Northeast Ohio, which has been saturated for three months full of auto-calls?”
Related: Smaller swing states do in Romney as game changer
Had Project ORCA succeeded, it would have been lauded as the ultimate voter-turnout tool. But the expected long-drawn-out fight had been called well before midnight East Coast time by several networks, including Fox News. It would take an additional 90 minutes or so before the challenger conceded at 12:55 a.m., but the shock still lingered not only over the loss, but also over Orca’s failings.
Some Romney aides were surprised, too, especially since they had put an enormous amount of effort into tracking the hour-by-hour whims of the electorate. In recent weeks the campaign came up with a super-secret, super-duper vote-monitoring system that was dubbed Project Orca. … Early in the evening, one aide said that, as of 4 p.m., Orca still projected a Romney victory of somewhere between 290 and 300 electoral votes. Obviously that didn’t happen. Later, another aide said Orca had pretty much crashed in the heat of the action. ‘Somebody said Orca is lying on the beach with a harpoon in it,’ said the aide. (Nov. 7, Washington Examiner)
The analyses of why Romney lost are already in full gear. Somewhere in that postmortem will be a prolonged debugging session.

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When The Market Dropped Yesterday After The Election?


Many of the sectors that dropped were attributed to problems in Europe. But there were two sectors with very big changes. One moved down big and the other moved up big.
Health Insurance Companies tanked and Hospital stocks rose. It should be no secret to anybody with a brain that solidifying an Obama presidency (thus solidifying the future of the Affordable Care Act) would have these implications.
So what do you think about wall street telling us that Obamacare is bad for Insurance companies and good for hospitals?

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I’m Not Affiliated With A Party, Can I Vote For The Dem And Rep Presidential Candidate For 2016?


it’s the 2012 election. yes ..

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Democrats Rigging The Election!?


WARNING! This is very disturbing!
A CBS affiliate accidentally runs khyron dated Nov 6 declaring Obama winner of 2012 election with 40,237,966 votes to 38,116,216 votes
Check it out!
http://patdollard.com/2012/10/disturbing-cbs-news-affiliate-accidentally-runs-khyron-dated-november-6-declaring-obama-winner-of-2012-election-4340-40237966-votes-to-38116216/#ooid=UycW9hNjoqkwlzWTy6bz-ziHRBBb2VLN

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Is This Clear Evidence That The Election Has Been Decided For Us?


CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of electionhttp://dailycaller.com/2012/10/21/cbs-ne…

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Can You Add To My List Of The Most Ludicrous Right-wing Election Theories?


Here’s what I have so far:
1. Cooking the unemployment rate
2. The media is skewing the polls
3. Politicizing the stock market (any decline in the stock market as the fault of Obama, and any increase as investor speculation that Obama is on the way out)
4. Obama is coming for your guns
5. The Social Security Administration’s arms cache (they’re preparing for massive civil unrest and intended to use the ammo on Americans)
6. The Muslim mole in the Secretary of State’s office
7. Fact-checkers are a liberal plot
8. The secret liberal plot behind the Gulf oil spill (was actually a deliberate act of sabotage devised to create a justification for eliminating all off-shore drilling)
9. Obamacare’s death panels (awarded the “Lie of the Year” award from PolitiFact)
10. The Green plot to enslave the world (Agenda 21, a little known and non-binding resolution adopted by the UN, is viewed by some on the right as an attempt to control the lives of people throughout the world by regulating everything they do. Amongst their paranoid fears is that Agenda 21 will cede U.S. sovereignty to the UN and a one-world government.)

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