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Politics for Numbers People
Nov. 10th, 2012 10:16 amHere R Sources:
This is an excerpt from Newsweek's coverage of the 1992 campaign; I used to own the hard copy of this retrospective and read it enough to be able to recall exact phrases twenty years later. (Note that patrician, conservative blue was the Republican color in those far-off days.)
And now we have this, put together by the Slate writer who seems to have taken on the role of in-house Romney apologist.
I don't care if you wanted Romney to win, wanted Obama to win, or didn't want either of them. The difference between in-house pollsters willing to tell the President of the United States that the country's rejecting him and between a bunch of partisan hacks who "un-skew" their own numbers to make themselves feel better is indicative of the collapse of the upper echelon of the Republican party into total fantasyland.
Also, a look into this Project ORCA catastrophe is another good reminder of how goddamned incompetent Romney's people were. I'm honestly stunned by the extend of it. Again, these weren't supposed to be starry-eyed idealists. Apps don't work just because you believe they will.
-_-
This is an excerpt from Newsweek's coverage of the 1992 campaign; I used to own the hard copy of this retrospective and read it enough to be able to recall exact phrases twenty years later. (Note that patrician, conservative blue was the Republican color in those far-off days.)
And now we have this, put together by the Slate writer who seems to have taken on the role of in-house Romney apologist.
I don't care if you wanted Romney to win, wanted Obama to win, or didn't want either of them. The difference between in-house pollsters willing to tell the President of the United States that the country's rejecting him and between a bunch of partisan hacks who "un-skew" their own numbers to make themselves feel better is indicative of the collapse of the upper echelon of the Republican party into total fantasyland.
Also, a look into this Project ORCA catastrophe is another good reminder of how goddamned incompetent Romney's people were. I'm honestly stunned by the extend of it. Again, these weren't supposed to be starry-eyed idealists. Apps don't work just because you believe they will.
-_-
