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Source: Politico
Karl Rove under fire
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
November 10, 2012 07:13 AM EST
Karl Rove is feeling the heat.
The face of the historic $1 billion plan to unseat President Barack Obama and turn the Senate Republican, Rove now finds himself the leading scapegoat for its failure. And hes scrambling to protect his status as a top GOP money man by convincing disappointed donors to his Crossroads groups that he did the best he could with their $300 million.
Sources tell POLITICO that some donors have called Crossroads officials to ask how their polling could have been so far off, while others are openly grumbling that the groups should have spent more on the ground game. Rival operatives long frustrated by Roves dominance of big GOP money are seizing on the discontent, questioning whether hes hurting the cause and privately urging donors to shut him out.
During a secret Thursday afternoon conference call with his benefactors, Rove laid out the analytics behind his assertions to donors that a massive late-game advertising push would expand the electoral map into Pennsylvania and deliver the White House and the Senate.
The call was civil, focusing on questions like, where was my strategy, was it right, was it wrong? What did we find out that we didnt know before? That kind of thing nothing negative, no recriminations or blame, said Minnesota media mogul Stan Hubbard.
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Who would have thought the Nerdy Whiz Kid would go down so hard ? ....
I could NOT be more pleased ....