Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA

[HooptieWagon]

320. What you say is possible.

I did acknowledge that A's claim is technically feasable. And it could be that RW stayed quiet bc exposing A would expose their own hacks. But that is speculation.

What we do know is that Romney Campaign was caught flat-footed by Dem turnout. There was the "enthusiasm gap", there was the barrage of negative ads, there was the voter-suppression efforts. They thought Dems would not turn out in numbers for Obama as in '08. They didn't think Hispanics would break so heavily for Obama, and didn't think the gender gap would be anything to worry about. I myself had doubts about the youth vote, though based solely on handful of youths I know personally. As a personal anecdote, inre the gender gap, back in mid-summer I posted on FB an article about the Repuke's War on Women, along with some scarey poll numbers for the GOP. That post generated quite a few "likes", and comments of outrage from women friends of mine. One friend, a moderate republican, didn't comment but shared the post on the wall of a good friend of hers (and acquaintence of mine) who was working on the Romney Campaign in Miami, and asked him if it was going to be a problem. His assurance to her was it would blow over, and wouldn't be a problem Nov 6th. LOL, we saw how that worked, GOP candidates couldn't keep their mouths shut, and the issue stayed alive all election.

As for the R turnout, obviously Romney Campaign over-estimted it. They thought their hi-tech, but untested, ORCA program was a game-changer. Whether it was Anon interference or R incompetence, it failed miserably. I think R&R got fewer votes than Gramps & Bimbo did in '08.

Anyway, as it turned out Ohio wasn't critical. Neither was Florida. Obama could have lost both, and still won. He only needed to win the 4 smallest swing states to beat Romney. The math was simply in his favor.