Comments on: When the nerds go marching in

By: Pragmatic

Pragmatic — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:00:44 +0000

Reminder: Jesus wore a beard…what’s wrong with that?

By: di butler

di butler — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:38:23 +0000

It’s very groupthink-y to point to this and deny it. Like ignoring culture, the old heads at the GOP haven’t a clue, as to what to do on social media, or have sense to hire all the firebrand bloggers, Twitter folks with tens of thousands of followers, the masters of FB, Tumblr, Reddit, & fun stuff like memes & photoshops. This, unfortunately, made a huge difference. I worked at the RNC, I saw it first hand, many years ago, the denial of the importance of not turning up your nose on what’s new. Obama’s team got it. Twice.

By: WisCon

WisCon — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:35:03 +0000

Don’t these idiots see what is happening in their own state?

By: stefanite

stefanite — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:55:36 +0000

I still don’t get why Obama needed a tech dream team to GOTV. All he had to do was point to the heaven on earth he has created over the past four years. Kataklysmic on November 17, 2012 at 9:15 AM

Three words: Electronic voting machines

By: keep the change

keep the change — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:35:32 +0000

How come lefties – the world over – don’t like to shave? I’ve noticed this everywhere. Look at academia, even in the sciences, the profs generally have long scraggly beards. Che, Castro, even Lenin had a goatee.

But the scraggly beard is a hallmark of the those who hate “the rich”.

By: Seth Halpern

Seth Halpern — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:11:05 +0000

This still doesn’t explain why so few people bothered to vote for Romney. Team Romney’s computer glitches don’t explain the paltry turnout either. Too many Republicans are obviously living in a bubble if they can’t foresee that even after four years of quasi-socialism millions of their own people can’t discern enough difference between the two parties to show up.

By: Punchenko

Punchenko — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:02:02 +0000

It’s funny because I never knew all this behind the scenes stuff before the election. All the talk about demographics change has nothing to do with it, they just were better at getting out low- interest voters. We all thought we had the excitement on our side, and maybe we did, but it didn’t matter because they got out the voters who weren’t excited. We need to perfect this, and we will, but definitely by the off year elections because that is where our more in-tune electorate pays off, if the democrats improve their turnout on off year elections we’re screwed.

rose-of-sharon on November 17, 2012 at 9:52 AM

It’s more than that. They were paying kids out of college — all struggling for work — $30K to be trained and “community organize” in some of these swing states (especially in heavily minority districts.) They had a whole machine plopped right down that paid well, provided training, and turned out the votes they needed. Obama’s campaign was even hiring Spanish-speaking staff to send to the west for organizing, too.

If the GOP is to win going forward, it too will have to start community organizing and pay staff to do it.

By: rose-of-sharon

rose-of-sharon — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:52:04 +0000

It’s funny because I never knew all this behind the scenes stuff before the election. All the talk about demographics change has nothing to do with it, they just were better at getting out low- interest voters. We all thought we had the excitement on our side, and maybe we did, but it didn’t matter because they got out the voters who weren’t excited. We need to perfect this, and we will, but definitely by the off year elections because that is where our more in-tune electorate pays off, if the democrats improve their turnout on off year elections we’re screwed.

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:42:58 +0000

Could these gentlemen possibly create software that reminds them to do a few crunches every morning?

radjah shelduck on November 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM

For these guys, the death of the Twinkie is indeed poetic justice.

By: ExpressoBold

ExpressoBold — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:18:05 +0000

This is just too much nerdiness for a Saturday morning. I’ll get back to ti later. Much later. After football…