BTW, here is Karl Rove’s website.
He seems to have run out of money to pay his webmaster, as his grand election map is still up along with his last few days of articles predicting Romney’s great victory.
His one recent edition to the site - an article for the Wall Street Journal - is enlightening and chock full of insane comments. Let’s just say “gracious loser” is not Karl’s strong suit.
bows to DigitalC
You know, what strikes me about those quotes even more than the Rove-bashing (which admittedly delights me) is the tone of “Dammit, we bought this election fair and square! We got ripped off!” They really seem to have believed that all they had to do was throw money at the race, and it was theirs–and worse, that it was supposed to be that way.
Say that $800 million was spent on the Republican campaign. (That’s not dead on, but it’s close enough to work with.) That’s enough to pay a $50k salary to 16,000 people for a year. The last jobs report says that 171,000 jobs were added in October. If all $800 million had been spent hiring people in that one month at a fairly modest average salary, it would have improved that one report by about 9.4%. In a month with a weaker jobs report, like April (+115,000), the effect would have been larger (~14%), but still not huge.
Obviously, it wasn’t spent that way. That’s just a case for maximum impact on numbers that would be noticeable to voters. Spread out as it was, I find it highly unlikely that it had any significant influence on the outcome.
Yeah, I know, but it is fun to think about.
Actually there is a greater benefit from just the initial jobs. That money gets recycled again and again through sales, pay to the cashiers, buying more supplies. It’s the motion/velocity of money that gets an economy going. That was one of the problems in the great depression and latest recession. Lack of money movement.
It’s not working for me. That post is coming through in the voice Patrick Stewart uses for those “you are a business traveler” rental car commercials.
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2012/return_on_investment/
Read it and giggle. Cackle. Chortle.
Now now, don’t give Karl Rove all the credit! We owe a lot to the Tea Party as well!
Um, isn’t “opposing losing candidates” the same as “supporting winning candidates”?
I Am The Great And Powerful ROVE!! Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!!
'Struth, I find their prose a bit dense, so I’m not entirely sure.
The best part of that scene was Rove ranting about how the two candidates were only “991 votes apart” when the screen right next to him was showing a gap of something like 30K.
I saw him on Fox in last time, when he was standing at this electoral board and strategizing that if McCain can hold on in Ohio, and then pick up…and they broke in to tell him Ohio had just been called for Obama. What a moment.
I think it’s breaking it down specifically into how much they spent on ads that boiled down to “Don’t vote Obama” vs. ads that said “Do vote Romney”. Those showed up as 2 different categories in FEC filings, even though they had the same purpose.
How the mighty have fallen.
Just a few years ago he was nearly universally considered a genius whether good or evil and now he’s merely a punch line.
In a bad movie version of these events, the Karl Rove-esque character would end up somewhere in an alley with a couple of slugs in the back of his head.
The same guy who suggested poring a ton of money into California for a Republican upset? That guy? With the jar of library paste and a spoon?
I don’t… lol… I don’t even know what library paste is but I love it.
You know, a part of me thought the same thing. When he started going on about how they were calling Ohio too early, I flashed back to 2000.
I can’t shake a tiny suspicion - and yes I know this is foil hat stuff - that the fix was in, or at least was supposed to be, but somehow they were outsmarted by the Dems.