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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:31 PM Nov 2012

Romney Camp Called Fox News To Complain About Network’s Ohio Projection

After Fox News called Ohio for President Obama, the conservative news network's phone and inboxes lit up with angry messages from the Romney campaign, complaining that the projection was premature, New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/how-rove-fought-with-fox-over-ohio.html

Instantly, Fox phones lit up with angry phone calls and e-mails from the Romney campaign, who believed that the call was premature, since tallies in several Republican-leaning Southern counties hadn't been been fully tabulated. "The Romney people were totally screaming that we’re totally wrong," one Fox source said. "To various people, they were saying, 'your decision team is wrong.'" According to a Fox insider, Rove had been in contact with the Romney people all night. After the Ohio call, Rove — whose super-PAC had spent as much as $300 million on the election, to little avail — took their complaints public, conducting an on-air primer on Ohio's electoral math in disputing the call.


http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-romney-camp-called-fox-news-to-complain

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Yeah trublu992 Nov 2012 #1
So Romney's people triggered the Fox/Rove fiasco last night? Coool. Coyotl Nov 2012 #2
It was a blast! ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #4
Where did Rove GET that "991 votes" figure, anyway? Ken Burch Nov 2012 #7
That was intersting, watching Rove trying his best to prime the Wurlitzer high density Nov 2012 #12
Trying to recreate the Bush intervention in 2000 frazzled Nov 2012 #3
Exactly! What I secretly wonder is 99th_Monkey Nov 2012 #6
Yep! I think they were counting on showing a close election and the results didn't turn bushisanidiot Nov 2012 #9
I loved Obama's "..and we need to fix that" re: the 7 hour long lines ~nt 99th_Monkey Nov 2012 #11
I, too, remember that. Libby2 Nov 2012 #13
Poor TurdBlossom Presidentcokedupfratboy Nov 2012 #5
Rove alone spent $25 per vote in ND, and lost by less than 3,000 votes. Coyotl Nov 2012 #8
Romney's team must have been using unskewed polls TexasCPA Nov 2012 #10
They believed the nonsense Rove was spewing. DCBob Nov 2012 #14
Genius Coyotl Nov 2012 #15
I love the smell of Karma FarPoint Nov 2012 #16
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
2. So Romney's people triggered the Fox/Rove fiasco last night? Coool.
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:38 PM
Nov 2012

That was fun to watch:

Karl Rove Causes Fox News Chaos By Challenging Obama Victory Projection
video - http://www.mediaite.com/tv/karl-rove-causes-fox-news-chaos-by-challenging-obama-victory-projection/
by Andrew Kirell

After Fox News called the election in favor of President Barack Obama, Fox contributor Karl Rove challenged their decision to give Ohio to the president, causing chaos on-air as hosts Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly scrambled to refute Rove’s reluctance to believe the Fox News “decision desk’s” call in favor of Obama.

“We have got to be careful about calling things when we have like 991 votes separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote yet to count,” Rove warned the Fox anchors ..


high density

(13,397 posts)
12. That was intersting, watching Rove trying his best to prime the Wurlitzer
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:41 PM
Nov 2012

But the facts were just too strong this time.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
3. Trying to recreate the Bush intervention in 2000
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:39 PM
Nov 2012

I will never forget that moment when, after projecting Gore as the winner in Florida, the networks cut to the Bush family, poppie and Babs and all, sitting in a hotel suite and protesting that the call was "wrong."

I remember screaming at the tv at that moment, " They are stealing the election!"

Well, it was too little, too late last night. And it wasn't going to work anyway this time. But it sickened my stomach just the same.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
6. Exactly! What I secretly wonder is
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 04:48 PM
Nov 2012

if Anon made sure that ALL votes were counted accurately, even
by those dreadful computerized voting machines that can be so
easily hacked.

I wonder if behind the scenes, behind Rove's ear-piece, his hired
hackers were cursing and pulling their hair out, and getting blocked
and stopped at every turn, and Rove didn't even see it coming.

bushisanidiot

(8,064 posts)
9. Yep! I think they were counting on showing a close election and the results didn't turn
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 05:12 PM
Nov 2012

out how they planned it.

the exit polls should be pretty much the same as the final vote count.
if it isn't, even though Obama clearly won, those machines need to be
investigated for malicious code. This CANNOT happen in 2014.

Libby2

(4,629 posts)
13. I, too, remember that.
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:43 PM
Nov 2012

I knew right then that Bush was going to be our President.

He said, my brother promised me Florida and I'm going to win Florida.

5. Poor TurdBlossom
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:47 PM
Nov 2012

He spent $300 million and all he has to show for it is a big , steaming lump of "Shut the F*ck Up."

FarPoint

(12,432 posts)
16. I love the smell of Karma
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:55 AM
Nov 2012

in the dark of night..........Oh yea I doooooooo!


I live in blue Montgomery County Ohio.............

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