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ORIGINAL: tj444

voter monitoring & tracking??? omg, that is taking Big Brother to a whole new level.. so someone that shops at Walmart is likely an Obama supporter, huh? someone that drinks Heineken must be an elitist R? I am quickly coming to the conclusion that America is nutz.. that the sheeple even allow themselves to be tracked this way amazes me..

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

This is what bothered me so much about the Romney campaign and the GOP. And, for that matter, about a LOT of business ventures.

1. Lots of bragging and trash talking the opposition.
2. Complete incompetence. No proper testing. Poor documentation. No contingencies for failure recovery.
3. Afterward, cover-ups and denial of responsibility.

Here's what they said prior to the election.

The amazing thing to me is not that it failed, but that it failed on so many different levels. The documentation was misleading and poorly done. The imposition of expecting workers to print out sixty pages of documentation. The lack of formal training, aside from documentation. The insufficient testing, and lack of recovery/contingency planning. They even handed out nonworking PINs and passwords! Basically, it looks like the Romney campaign entrusted the entire operation to people who did not know how to run a software project.

Here's another description of the mess.

Nate Silver has a thought that the GOP doesn't appeal to techies. I disagree. The country is split about 50-50, and surely there are some techies the GOP could find, or at least pay to work for them.

IMO, the thing is that Romney himself wasn't that competent. He had all the money in the world, but surrounded himself with second-rate people, and in the case of Orca, he got people who overpromised, underdelivered, and then tried to shift blame. A competent executive would not put up with that.

I've often found it ironic that the GOP derided Obama as being a community organizer, and doesn't seem to make the connection between that and his campaign organizational abilities.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
(This explains something I had been scratching my head over - over the last few weeks of the campaign, the undecideds were breaking very strongly for Obama, not in the 50-50 break I had expected.)

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ORIGINAL: tj444

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
(This explains something I had been scratching my head over - over the last few weeks of the campaign, the undecideds were breaking very strongly for Obama, not in the 50-50 break I had expected.)

hmmm.. you dont think that the whole Romney-is-Pure-Evil thing and fear of that was the reason? I knew Romney would not win, I knew the undecideds would, when faced with the ballot in front of them on election day, choose the Devil-they-Knew Obama.. Romney was simply feared too much & he had too many negatives, people simply didnt want to take the chance...

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

I don't see that as a factor. They were undecideds until the last minute - if they were put off by Romney, they would not have waited that long to decide.