Karl Rove’s nightmare: A one percent success rate on American Crossroads’s spending
American Crossroads spent heavily, not just on Romney, but on attack ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates in eight states — thanks to mega contributions from conservative donors like metals magnate Harold Simmons ($19.5 million), Texas homebuilder Bob Perry ($7.5 million) and Omni hotel chief Robert Rowling ($5 million.)
The super donors didn’t get much for their money. Six of the eight GOP Senate candidates that American Crossroads spent money to try to elect – Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, George Allen in Virginia, Josh Mandel in Ohio, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Denny Rehberg in Montana and Todd Akin in Missouri – lost their races, along with Romney. The group did, on the other hand, help to elect Deb Fischer in Nebraska and Dean Heller in Nevada.
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is rove finished? Its an awful success rate, no one will trust him with so much money ever again!
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM
It is time to end the “fifty plus one” strategy
blatantblue on November 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM
LMFAO! WHO KNOWS HOW MANY HE SPENT FOR SNOTT BROWN TO GET HIS ASS KICKED BY A FAKE INDIAN!
LMFAO!!
HondaV65 on November 8, 2012 at 1:05 PM
Heckuva job, Turdblossom!
cool breeze on November 8, 2012 at 1:06 PM
Why isn’t NBC commenting oh the “union nightmare” of Scott Walker and the rest of republican governors across t5he country ?
runner on November 8, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Karl Rove, along with Steve Schmidt, are the cancer on the right-side of the political spectrum.
We need to hit them with radiation…
UODuckMan on November 8, 2012 at 1:07 PM
53% of voters still blame Bush for the economy.
It’s time to get Tokyo Rove’s face OFF TV!!
HondaV65 on November 8, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Karl Rove is dead, so is Ann Coulter and Dick Morris
MoreLiberty on November 8, 2012 at 1:07 PM
The legacy media doing the job…
d1carter on November 8, 2012 at 1:08 PM
You are a sad, sad, little man sometimes.
MikeknaJ on November 8, 2012 at 1:08 PM
this is another example of why everyone cringes when you come around
blatantblue on November 8, 2012 at 1:10 PM
so msm hates Karl Rove, wants to poison the well, and useful idiots are marching along. sad.
runner on November 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM
what about akin and mourdock?
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:11 PM
Yet he’ll keep appearing on Fox News to offer his opinion on a range of subjects.
Failure means nothing to these people.
Dack Thrombosis on November 8, 2012 at 1:13 PM
We won in Nevada but lost everywhere else? WTF?!
El_Terrible on November 8, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Rove, you magnificent bas….
Oh, wait.
db on November 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM
you must be joking!!!! karl rove just blew hundreds of millions! he comically entered denial on live tv. he was WRONG!
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I guess Rove is better at strategizing than propagandizing, which is what making advertisements is all about.
OxyCon on November 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Unable to leave any thought unspoken.
a capella on November 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
HondaV65 on November 8, 2012 at 1:05 PM
I remember a time when you weren’t unhinged…that said, I understand your madness, I am certain the disease will spread soon.
Alinsky on November 8, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Please make him go away.
alwaysfiredup on November 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Rove is the same manical idiot who says “Er, I don’t understand why we aren’t getting the hispanic vote ’cause they’re pro-family and hard working.”
70% of hispanics voted for Obama. Rove and Bush left the southern border WIDE OPEN to secure that hispanic vote. How’d that work out? The guy’s been coasting for years off of his work for a president who, in many ways, was an utter catastrophe for the Republican Party and the nation.
Django on November 8, 2012 at 1:23 PM
gotta love the turd blossom. his puerile refusal to acknowledge the ohio loss was easily the best moment of the campaign.
sesquipedalian on November 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM
After this election, this guy should have zero credibility. He was at ground zero for the disaster of 2012. So much for the “smartest man in the room.”
Hopefully the fall of Rove will take the steam out of the sails for Jeb 2016.
Doomberg on November 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM
I will never trust Karl Rove again.
He ended up being a snake-oil salesman.
I wish I’d recognized it sooner.
22044 on November 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM
It’s interesting how the governorships may increasingly work as individual state resistance to an oppressive federal government.
Django on November 8, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Gosh I hope so, they spew hatred and push their beltway blowhards.
wish we could.
wi farmgirl on November 8, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Yep. A different version of Dick Morris.
a capella on November 8, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Because card-check is coming in 2013.
Alberta_Patriot on November 8, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Akin would not have won if (a) we had closed primaries and/or (b) we had a runoff rule. Mourdock really didn’t do anything wrong, and the question wouldn’t have even come up if not for Akin.
alwaysfiredup on November 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Will never pass the house.
alwaysfiredup on November 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Do you guys realize that West is dead and Warren is alive?
YOU DESERVE IT!!!!
Go back and look at your comments/attitude on:
the 47% comment (take it across America!! ha!)
the Jeep Ad in OH (You counted on low inform voterd
Limbaugh and Fluke
Immigration (I hated the fact that Rubio tried to this behind close doors)
All the non-”bombshells” were about portraying Obama as a racist because he spoke in a way that supported minorities
And last, BUT NOT LEAST
You sucked on Rove’s lollipop by backing a White version of Obama who was trying to be on the right of Rick Perry.
Yeah….you are after all the low informed voters.
YOU DESERVE EVERY MINUTE OF THIS BARACK-B!TCH-SLAPMENTUM!
#revenge and now #forward LOL!
Can.I.be.in.the.middle on November 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Plus full blown amnesty, disguised as “immigration reform.” Should lock down the donk voting majority for years.
a capella on November 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM
What about Akin and Mourdock?
They used their freedom of speech, and got the consequences of their remarks.
Steve Schmidt stated, specifically, that the part needs to “shut up Rush Limbaugh”. Meaning openly stop freedom of speech.
” How can you use the phone when you cannot…speak?”
UODuckMan on November 8, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Rove….go away.
nazo311 on November 8, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Yes. American Crossroads was completely ineffective, although there’s very little you can do when two of your candidates shot themselves in the foot (Akin and Mourdock) and a third was a super long shot (Mandel). Rove’s meltdown on Fox News on election night didn’t help either. (For those who missed it, when they called Ohio for Obama, he made Megyn Kelly get the analyst out of the “war room” and bring him on set so Rove could yell at him).
Outlander on November 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
The problem with many of the Republican-leaning ads were that they appealed to the people who were already going to vote that way or they were simply attack ads that alienated the other side.
We need a sort of educational ad that is more focused on role of government and economics.
The good thing about this election is that Democrats in places like California will have nobody to blame but themselves. They are going to get to own what happens the next few years. They now have supermajorities in both houses of the California legislature. Whatever happens for the next couple of years, they get to own. Lock, stock, barrel.
crosspatch on November 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
It would have worked out, if in this cycle, the tea party didn’t demand deportation. That’s one of the reasons Romney advocated for self deportation during the primary, but plan to have Rubio work on the Dream Act he would could back up…but Obama said: Checkmate! That was the plan.
Can.I.be.in.the.middle on November 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM
will be challenged in courts
runner on November 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Not that I want to encourage the troll, but it’s right.
(Note to HV: Try to relax on the Caps Lock a little though, would you?)
pain train on November 8, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Election night, I don’t know who put on a more embarrassing show: Sputtering Karl Rove or Drunk Diane Sawyer…
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Stop making crap up. That was simply not one of the big issues in this election. Neither Romney or Obama talked about it at all.
alwaysfiredup on November 8, 2012 at 1:49 PM
what about, having candidates staying a mile away from no exception prolife positions? even in well spoken terms, its a loser ideological stand that can energize the libs!
nathor on November 8, 2012 at 1:49 PM
This.
cool breeze on November 8, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I agree with Rush. CW has it that if we win independents, we win…right? Not if the base doesn’t turn out.
“But they’re making an error, a huge error if they think that demography did ‘em in. They didn’t get their base out. Three million Republicans sat home. This is not insignificant. Obama got ten million fewer voters than he got in 2008.”
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/08/oh_the_futility_establishment_gop_draws_all_the_wrong_lessons_from_election_results
Rove, Schmidt, Wallace, et al need to shut the heck up.
kakypat on November 8, 2012 at 1:57 PM
The lesson is crap candidate = crap results.
Sharon Angle and whatshername-not-a-witch didn’t teach these people anything.
Moesart on November 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Like Obamacare was?
Alberta_Patriot on November 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM
You gonna answer my question or troll? The question, BTW, was “what was your solution?”.
Thanks!
kim roy on November 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM
He should have seen it coming miles away.
the_nile on November 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Blow it out your ass, douche. Go suck off your BFF Barack.
wargamer6 on November 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM
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