The Republican National Committee is launching an independent inquiry into what worked in 2012’s elections — and, perhaps more importantly, what did not.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus on Monday rolled out his effort, called the Growth and Opportunity Project, to look at how GOP nominee Mitt Romney came up short against President Barack Obama and what steps the party can take going forward. Priebus is asking five party leaders to talk with RNC members, activists and donors about how to solve the GOP’s problems.
Republicans had the biggest midterm gain in 2010’s elections since 1938 but two years later fell short in claiming the White House.
In addition to fundraising, the outside effort will look at demographic shifts and campaign tactics with an eye on upcoming elections.
(AP)
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What went wrong is that they nominated spineless moderates such as Mitt Romney for President and Connie Mack IV for U.S. Senator in Florida.
Principal problem: The Democrats got more votes
The fact that the Republicans had trouble sticking to their economic message and went rambling on irrelevant social issues probably hurt in a year where everyone else was focused on economics and jobs – issues about which Romney had more support than Obama. It didn’t help having noisy supporters who want to preserve America as a WASP country (that it really never was) or to regulate what people do in bed.
the problem was that the republicans were effective in 2011 and 2012 in stopping Obama’s leftist agenda, therefore people said to themselves ” we like this set up” if the republicans want to reclaim anything they should show the people that voted for Obama ” this is what you want this is what you got” and give them a leftist agenda for two years until they scream “Republican”
Let’s see:
Three million registered republicans stayed home.
His inside staff was made up primarily of people who have
LOST elections.
The conservative branch of the party felt Romney wasn’t conservative enough (yet).
Romney didn’t defend himself against many of the Obama lies.
Romney failed to attempt to endear himself to the true base by refusing to appear on some major talk radio shows as well as TV talk shows.
His refusing to appear for a free hour on The O’Reiley Factor was a killer.