Why yes. You might also have noticed our own adaher whining incessantly about negative ads as though they were invented by the Obama campaign for the first time this year.
Where IS adaher? Really! He hasn’t been around here since before the election night results started coming in. It’s really pissing me off.
Good thing for Karl Rove that the modern conservative movement rewards complete failures. (See “Heckuva job, Brownie!”, Dick Morris, et al). He will still get paid millions for his political “genius” because he tells Republicans what they want to hear.
What are you talking about? 
My post was about a scenario in which the entire sum went directly to paying people. Was it the line you didn’t quote, about it not being spent that way? That was in reference to the spending being spread over a much longer period of time than a month. Maybe you misread it?
Possibly so–I approximated the figure I used from a quick googling that showed the amount spent by the campaign and the single largest SuperPAC, then bumped it up to a round number. For purposes of napkin math about job creation, I figured it was close enough. I was also only addressing the Romney campaign, because that was the amusing scenario I was responding to–that Republican spending had buoyed the economy enough to cost them the race. It’s plausible that the campaign spent enough to create/sustain as many as 16,000 jobs for a year…which is nice, but not enough to sway national numbers much.
Really? It’s actually making me rather happy.
“Little” ?
Wow. That’s exactly what he looked like.
I strongly recommend last night’s Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow shows. Pure joy.
Just so you know: not quite all of us are Right Wing ignorant nutjobs. Idaho has a dirty little secret: one progressive/liberal University town, with an interesting name-- Moscow. (The name has nothing to do with Commies. It goes back to 1875, and was probably an homage to the postmaster’s hometown Moscow, Pennsylvania.) We are known throughout the Pacific Northwest as “The Berkeley Of Idaho.”
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If Rove’s donors feel that they’ve been cheated, they can always file complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Maybe somebody could ask Senator Warren to pull a few strings and get the investigation fast-tracked.
I actually don’t think ill of Idaho at all. And, since reading the 538 article on Idaho, I do know about Moscow! 
Now, California on the other hand, I have no use for. But I’m an Oregonian, so it’s borne into my blood to hate California. Idaho is our friendly, forgettable neighbor to the east 
It will be heard in New York Superior Court right after Coyote v. Acme Corporation.
“Turn those machines back on! TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK OOOONNNNNNNN!”
Hehehe… yeah it’s a shame that the republican SoS of Ohio wasn’t able to kajigger enough votes to Romney in the end, to the surprise of nearly everyone, including Rove himself.
I don’t know what exit polls or final day polls ended up showing for Ohio, but I wouldn’t be surprised if election results skewed a point or two republican versus the exit polls/last day polls. That’s about as much as you can get away with without being caught.
From the Sunlight link, I found a PAC that did even worse than Rove.
One can hope he’s suffered a terminal setback, like Icarus flying too close to the sun of…something. Sorry. Metaphor failure.
Listen, they weren’t operating a charity. They expected a return on their investments in the form of tax breaks. What happened to consumer democracy?
Or, more precisely, he himself got Roved. For all I know there could have been voter suppression on the part of the GOP going on, but it was nothing compared to everyone’s fears of it (including mine.) So when Rove comes in and talks about blue suppression, no one’s gonna believe him because the narrative is already about red suppression, true or not.
Serious question, was his reputation totally unwarranted? Bush was elected twice, so he must have been doing something right. Right?
In national elections at least, I think campaign managers are about as brilliant as their candidate is popular. It’s not unlike, say, managing a baseball team. You can certainly do things that help or hurt your team’s chances of winning, and the record says Rove made more good choices than bad ones just like Axelrod and Plouffe did. But you don’t have a good or bad season or campaign because of your manager. There are just too many things the manager can’t possibly control, the most obvious one being how well the players perform when they are on the field.
If you read the article, he’s not talking about actual voter suppression - preventing people who show up at the polls from being allowed to cast a ballot. He’s talking about how Obama pointed out lots of faults with Romney, his lies & inconsistencies, and how he wouldn’t be a very good President, thereby “suppressing” the pro-Romney vote.
And it’s true that white voter turnout fell significantly compared to 2008. Of course overall turnout was down percentagewise and if you compare 2012 to 2008, Romney came closer to McCain’s total than Obama came to his own previous result. But if Republicans rely on white voters and and they don’t show up, it goes without saying that that’s a problem for them.