2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney 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 were 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
They were pissed the voter "tabulation" flip software wasn't working!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)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
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 ..
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
high density
(13,397 posts)But the facts were just too strong this time.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)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)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)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.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Libby2
(4,629 posts)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.
Presidentcokedupfratboy
(1,054 posts)He spent $300 million and all he has to show for it is a big , steaming lump of "Shut the F*ck Up."
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)TexasCPA
(527 posts)They tried to unskew the election results.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)fools.
is sometimes only the perspective from the minds of the ignorant.
FarPoint
(12,432 posts)in the dark of night..........Oh yea I doooooooo!
I live in blue Montgomery County Ohio.............