Reasons Romney Lost
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by GregG (talk | contribs) at 21:35, December 24, 2012. It may differ significantly from current revision.
Reasons Romney Lost include:
- weakness on the social issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage
- fell for neoconservative claptrap to support foreign interventionalism, causing Romney to lose the last two debates
- misguided strategy to focus on only the economy
- ostracized Ron Paul and his millions of supporters
- spent six years running for president, yet never attempted to learn conservative language and principles[1]
- never emphasized the need to improve public schools, as George W. Bush did successfully in 2000
- spent his campaign money on high-priced but ineffective consultants
- failed to run effective political ads against Obama
- badly out-of-touch with common people, and made no real attempt to connect -- see the infamous "47% video" and his comment about "binders full of women"
- his expensive "Orca" election day "get out the vote" technology failed
- no meaningful outreach to young people
- overplayed the "family man" stuff to the point of irritation about his lack of concern for other people less fortunate
- surrounded himself by RINOs
- unnecessarily lashed out at Todd Akin in a way that cost him pro-life volunteers and convinced millions that Romney would be a puppet for the media
- clueless about the Democrat early voting machine that resulted in more than a million early votes by mail for Obama in Ohio
(please improve or add to the list)
References
- ↑ Instead, Romney would make insincere gaffes like claiming to be "severely conservative."