"Another Reason Not to Vote For Mitt Romney"

On Friday, I read an article by James Warren about the presidential campaign ad wards.  This is just another blaring example of the ineptness of the Romney campaign when compared with President Obama’s.  The Obama campaign hired Greer Margolis Mitchell Burns, a political advertising firm who handled the president’s ads in 2008, to handle their ad campaign in 2012.  Mitt Romney used a small group of people inside his campaign, who had no foresight.  The Obama campaign bought ads early on, and as a result, was able to get them cheaper.  An example…Obama’s people bought an ad months ago and paid $1,200, the Romney team bought the same ad later on in the same market and paid $3,600.  Are you ready for the kicker?

President Obama’s team had a strategic plan and purchased ads in key swing states for the last week of the campaign months before Mitt Romney was even the Republican nominee.  Because Romney’s team never had a solid plan, they paid way more for ads than they had to, but more important, failed to recognize that ad space might not be available in the swing states towards the end of the race, and failed to purchase it when they should have.  So in the last week of this campaign, there was no airtime left for the Romney team to buy in Ohio and Virginia, two states which he desperately needs, and both of which the president is ahead in the polls.  They have been reduced to handing out fliers in those states, which will probably prove ineffective, because hey, they also have an inferior ground game.  Well at least at least he won’t be able to spread his lies to massive amounts of people.

 

Romney has made poor decisions since his campaign commenced, and could have fixed a lot of the things that went wrong within.  It now looks like he may now pay the ultimate price for his stubborn loyalty to his incompetent friends.  Another thing to think about is that he will probably put those same inexperienced cronies of his into key positions in his administration.

So that said, we all know that campaigns have campaign managers, however, a poorly-run, disorganized campaign ultimately reflects on the man at the top.  Being a former CEO, Mitt Romney should have known that.  I will just ask if you can really trust a man whose campaign has been at times, a big mass of chaos, much of it due to him, to make decisions for almost 315,000,000 people?