2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGOP Chairman Reince Priebus says "lousy job of branding," "ridiculous" number of debates led to 2012
Source: CBS News
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus says "lousy job of branding," "ridiculous" number of debates led to 2012 loss
By Robert Hendin
It's the age old question: "What went wrong?" How did the Republican Party lose a presidential election against a weak incumbent with a bad economy, and lost seats in both the House and the Senate, only two years after its historic gains in the 2010 midterms? What went wrong and how to fix it for the next time was the goal of a massive study to be released Monday by the Republican National Committee.
"This is unprecedented, and it's something we had to do," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, previewing the report on "Face the Nation." He told host Bob Schieffer the "huge" effort will include significant changes to the most high profile Republican event of the campaign.
"I'm calling for a convention in June or July," Preibus said. "We're going to set up a commission that's going to make that decision. I'm going to be a part of that. I'm going to chair that commission, but no more August conventions."
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"One of the reasons why Mitt Romney was a sitting duck for two months over the summer is under the campaign finance law he couldn't use money he had already raised until after he received nomination for president in August. I believe that our primary process is way too long. I think our calendar needs to be looked at. I think our debate calendar needs to be shrunk. I think we had way too many debates with our candidates slicing and dicing each other and I think they had to wait too long to get to the convention," Priebus said.
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
neverforget
(9,437 posts)SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)n/t
LiberalFighter
(51,103 posts)And they re-elect him as their chair?
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)tanyev
(42,622 posts)Couldn't hurt.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Sounds good to me
former9thward
(32,082 posts)They had a ridiculous number of debates. A lesson I hope the DNC learns for 2016.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)"debate" to sound bites, it might have been a positive thing.
former9thward
(32,082 posts)The Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 featured one speaker speaking for one hour, then the other for the same, and back and forth like that. With the present ADD population people zone out after a minute.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Which is a handy excuse for not saying anything of substance. Even those minute-long sound bites are pretty low-content. The goal these days is to get elected to office while saying as little as possible.
CheapShotArtist
(333 posts)You didn't lose because your policies suck and need to be more moderate; it's because you need a different way of wording the shit...
I swear, does this fool think everybody is as brain-dead as his wingnut T-Bag base? Just because they fall for cheesy slogans and token faces, doesn't mean that everybody else will. Like how hard is it to quit with trying to get up in women's vaginas? And why are they so desperate to make people jump through more hoops to vote, when we didn't have to before? They can still be a competitive party running on low taxes and such if they just learn how to respect folk's personal sex lives and quit pissing off minorities.