The 108 Percent?

Four days after President Obama surprised conservatives by winning a second term, we are learning more about how Team Obama outplayed Team Romney!  It seems that Mitt Romney's election team did not use the best technology, did not reach out to youths, hispanics, other minorities, or non-Christians.  It appears that President Obama's election gurus increased voter registration in all of those categories.  They also used high tech GOTV (Get Out The Vote) equipment, and it actually worked.  Obama's team also successfully supressed the Christian vote by going after Mormonism (and having CNN and MSNBC doing hit pieces on Mormons).  They successfully supressed the military vote by not getting the ballots to them in time.  They successfully made the election about social issues and emotion rather than economic and fiscal responsibility.

There are also some strange things going on in three of the swing states with the voter registration roles.  In crucial counties in Ohio, Florida, and Colorado, voter registration is equal to or greater than the total number of eligible voters in those counties.  In other words, 100% or more of people 18 or older are registered to vote in these areas.  In one county in Ohio, there are 108% of the voting population registered to vote!  Amazing.  How is this possible?  Well, one explanation is that each of these counties hasn't purged their voter roles in a very long time.  Another explanation given to us by a Colorado County Clerk is that their county is a destination/vacation county that has many temporary residents that may be registered to vote there.  Of course, that doesn't explain why the voter turn-out in these specific counties happens to be about 20 percentage points higher than their state or national average.

One thing is clear to me.  President Obama and his GOTV team is doing things that the Republican Party can't even imagine, let alone keep up with.  It is time for some new thinking.  We must analyze the Obama GOTV machine, and get it right this time. or conservatives won't have a chance to win back the hearts and minds of the American people.