Democratic Party: Mitt Romney

Presidential Election Dept: In fact, one way to look at the presidential election is that the Democratic Party did everything in its power to bring out the voters in every demographic that research and past election results had shown to be predominantly sympathetic to its cause young people, Latinos, African Americans, college-educated women and the Republican Party seemed intent on driving those voters away, according to Globe and Mail. I can still brighten up a grey afternoon by trying to imagine who smuggled the video camera into that gathering of rich Republicans. I heard a rumour that it was the wife of one of the guests. You could see her as a closet Democrat, but I prefer to think of her as someone who simply hates her husband. She likes the Lexus. She likes the beach house in Boca Raton. She loves the private jet. But she hates her husband and but apparently this impression of Democratic disorganization is no longer valid, if it ever was. In the 2012 presidential campaign, political reporters agreed that the Obama team s ground game the laborious and, these days, technologically complicated process of identifying sympathetic voters and delivering them to the polls blew away the equivalent operation of the Republicans whose ticket was headed, of course, by a man who began his career as a management consultant . Old-fashioned American political operatives, the sort who knew all the poll-watchers by name and furnished the smoke in smoke-filled rooms, had a phrase that they used as a high compliment for a politician they admired for his realistic view of the way things worked: The man can count. Barack Obama s troops could count. A lot of Latinos and African Americans and young people of all backgrounds, for instance, must have thought that Mitt Romney was talking about them in that leaked video from a fat-cat gathering in Boca Raton, Fla. the video in which he told big donors privately that he could never persuade the 47 per cent of Americans who don t pay federal income tax to take responsibility for their own lives instead of enjoying victimhood. It s easy to guess the impression those remarks made on some alleged moocher who was working two jobs and, considering payroll taxes, among other things, was being taxed at a higher rate than Mr. Romney. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.