Karl Rove Has Figured Out Why Obama Won

Obviously he had an unfair advantage. Let us also state that Obama also ran this campaign like a business. Blame the election rules for the financial advantage

Great to hear ROve finally has a handle on why Mccain lost. When you out spend your opponent spreading a positive message and discussing the issues as opposed to screaming at the top of your lungs negative and nasty things about your opponent that have NOTHING to do with the issues you are going to win. That plus the spactacular addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket and Jesus Christ himself could not have won the Presidency. Although something tells me Jesus would be satying as far away from politics as he could get.

Why isn’t Rove in prison?!

Obama bought the election. It’s nothing new, he just paid a lot more for his win than others have in the past.

Rove simply cannot accept that a candidate won based upon his personal attributes of intelligence, coherence, discipline, and a connection with an electorate who was sick and tired of the old, worn-out Rovian strategy of playing campaign culture wars. Obama won because McCain was a flawed candidate, who was running a flawed campaign who also didn’t pay attention to the demographic changes in this country. Obama needed that money to overcome Rovian dirty tactics. And, I’m one of those voters who gave about $500 to his campaign, and I’m not a rich person by any stretch of the imagination. Every time Palin called Obama a socialist, I donated another $100. It’s just that simple.

Am I the only one who wishes that Karl Rove would just crawl back under whatever rock he was pulled from??? I am so sick of him and his continued lies in trying to “save” George Bush’s legacy. BTW, good luck with that…you’ll need it!

Am I the only one who wishes that Karl Rove would just crawl back under whatever rock he was pulled from??? I am so sick of him and his continued lies all in the name of trying to “save” George Bush’s legacy. I am a Republican but we lost, get over it already!

Obama pulled a fast one when he told McCain that he was using money from the government, but at the last minute he
‘changed’ his mind.
So much for Obama’s ‘word’.
It pays to advertise.
McCain, however, did make mistakes.
He was relying on the old school thinking: that character matters.
People did not want to hear that.
Their definition of ‘character’ was also different than McCain’s.
McCain’s school of thought was: “Show me who your friends are and I’ll show you who you are.”
Obama’s school of thought was: “The end justifies the means.”
That’s where the two trains collide.
Democrats and Republicans are different that way. We can argue until the ‘cows come home’(another old saying), but the two parties are different.
I’m not saying one is bad and one is good. That’s the beauty of our political system. We fight with words and ideas, not bullets (well, for the most part).
It’s just the democrats’ turn now.
I do wish Obama well. It would be foolish not to do so.
p.s. Remember the name: Bobby Jindal, Gov. of Louisiana. You’ll be hearing a lot about Jindal in the future.

‘Hang” asks;
“Why isn’t Rove in prison?!”
Because he did nothing illegal. Shady perhaps, but not illegal. Unless you
want to start putting people in jail for having different politics.

you have to include FOX NEWS and all right wing Radio and born again advertising against Obama. He had to raise big money to even approach the deck stacked against him. Great job OBAMA !

my biggest problem with the election was the fact the american people contributed millions just to campaign…God forbid they used that money to ACTUALLY help a person in need!!!

Karl, get over yourself. Perhaps our country has suffered enough at your hands. You were an advisor to Bush and much of our misery is on you. Barak Obama won because the majority of America believed him to be the best qualified. The election is OVER, Obama won and, for some reason, the Republican Party is having a problem accepting it. Well, many of us did NOT vote for GWB and we had to live with it for eight years so, please, go back to Texas and be silent for a while!! Let us enjoy our decision.

I just have to say, stop whining!!! I just love it. When the Republicans outspend the Democrats they don’t complain but when they are outspent by the Democrats then they scream bloody murder. Oh the election was bought. Gee ya think that it might just go both ways???!!! The Obama campaign and the Democratic party finally realized that to win takes money and lots of it. This will be the way US elections are run until we change something to stop this incredible expenditure of huge amounts of money.

Republicans have Fox news.
Democrats have CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN,
MSNBC, etc., etc.
(movie stars, etc.)
You’re going to begrude the Republicans FOX News? The ‘born again’ Christians are Republicans(for the most part). Democrats have their own followers.
The race came down to this:
What is the definition of ‘character’, and does it matter in the long run?
Does the end justify the means?
Well, we saw which way the vote went.
Lesson learned. It doesn’t mean we have to change our definition of character, but we will play it different ‘the next time’.

The more popular candidate was able to raise and spend more money than the less popular candidate? What a shock.

STOP BEING HATERS! Give the man a chance PLEASE!

I agree that all media should be reporting the news.
I was commenting on a post regarding FOX News. I was merely saying that Republicans have FOX News and the Democrats have CNN, etc., (so Democrats should not begrudge Republicans FOX).
It’s amazing to see all of the different opinions. People’s world view do indeed vary greatly.
It’s MY world view that the race came down to the definition of “character”.
Each side IS entitled to their opinion.
(remember, there’s good and bad character – it’s all how you see it.)

Rove is an irrelevant idiot.
Candidates SPEND whatever they RAISE. Obama outspent McCain because OBAMA OUT-RAISED MCCAIN.
Rove should ask himself why everyone – both big donors and small ones – wanted Obama to lead our country!!

McCain took federal dollars for his election. Obama said he was going to, but backed out of it. This hurt McCain.
It is what it is.
Now, McCain hurt himself by going ‘middle of the road’. Many big spenders did not give McCain because of hard feelings from the past.
As far as the popular vote, if Obama got just 3% less, and McCain picked up those 3%, McCain would have won the popular vote by less than one-half
percent (I believe. You can correct me if anybody cares to.)
As you can see, it wasn’t a landslide by popular vote.

it had nothing to do money and everything to do with message. the racism at the end of the campaign turned many voters away from the republican ticket. if McCain and especially Palin did more to say “if you are a racist we do not want your vote”, it would have been a closer election. i think hate is on it’s way out. it’s toxic. for the republicans, so toxic it might have cost them the election.

SPENDING TIME ON THE REPORTER OF INFO IS
LAME. FACTUALLY OBAMA AGREED TO USE
FEDERAL FINANCING AS DID McCAIN BUT AT
THE LAST MINUTE, AS HE OFTEN DID, HE
“REVERSED HIS POSITION”. THAT LEFT McCAIN WITH A SPENDING LIMIT OF $84
MILLION AND OBAMA WITH NO LIMIT IN
COLLECTING AND SPENDING ON THIS ELECTION. HOWEVER, I THINK ROVE IS WAY OFF ON WHY PEOPLE VOTED THE WAY THEY DID: 1/ ECONOMY 2/ BUSH CONNECTION AND MONEY A FAR DISTANT THIRD.

Rove is being simply being himslef, Rovian, again. The CFI data speaks for itself. Table 3 shows 49% of all donors to Obama were $200 or less. He’s obviously taking something Michael Malbin way out of context, or producing an outright fabrication. It’s troubling that a news media outside of FOX is covering Rove as if he has credibility. But then thanks, I needed reminding that my world view can be naive.

You people don’t want to deal with the fact that he won because he was the change that people wanted and needed. The Bush administration stole the election for eight years and people were just sick of it. All those early voter were not about John McCain. Never in the history of America have people come out with early voting like they did in this election and it was not because John McCain was running. It was because Obama was and people were excited about the possibilites of change and that change that he could bring. So deal with it and get over it. He won fare and square for a change!!!

“of course, Obama won fair and square.” – reality check
Yes he did and given the economic downturn Bozo the Clown would have won too if he had been the Democratic candidate.
I don’t think NoBo had to outspend McLame to win.
We don’t need the “wisdom” of Carly to figure that out.
That said, I’m encouraged by the first moves Barack has been making although we don’t need a news conference every day.
Please God, help us all get through these interesting times.

I pray that Sarah Palin remains the ‘sweetheart’ of the Republican party……..forever. Such a relationship will Guarantee the Democratic party a minimum of sixteen (16) years control of the Executive Office, and quite possibly twenty-eight (28)!!!

OH MY GOSH! Give it a rest I say,I see the Mulligan’s Drunksteraunt sign everyday insulting anyone of color on Roswell Rd in Marietta Ga :-). You mean to tell me that comparing campaign cash makes one a believer in money talks? And something else walks? Ok, I’ve had my fun with that,Barack Obama won because when we saw his face all over the place he was giving us a positive message that most of society is not used to hearing nor ready to hear from someone of his culture.He is a person a lot of men will love to hate and envy, he has it all.Ask his wife and a lot of other women and men who dare to be honest. Even a mind of his own,not to allow the nation go down to pure nothingness.Because, if he does, his kids and family will be screwed along with us. I have noticed that some are expecting a quick “Obama Fix”…hunh! Let me be not even the first to tell you,common since…..if things don’t work due to the same old fashioned,generic plan that has been in effect for quite a few national leaders why keep incorporating the same team members chalkboarding the same dried out game plan on an advanced world? Dems keep your shirts on he’s on it, You can’t fix something within months that took years to destroy.Stop banging your heads on a rock trying to figure out how that brown man with the muslim name beat McCain. Just think of it as a larger corporation and we are the board that has to choose the candidate with the most years left,better resume, better track record,freshest ideas and have 100% better results with international clients due to his calm,laid back and diplomatic personality. To win at the world’s game, strategy may appear to be socialism….remember? When the boss tells all of the top admins that it is mandatory for them to appear at functions and be charming,even if it doesn’t come natural to you. Dress and impress is the name of OUR game. Not just politicians,check out the night clubs,gyms,on the job,golf course,black tie affairs,galas and where ever else we socialize, we are all socialists or at least try to be. If you didn’t you wouldn’t have friends or associates.