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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (521353)	11/9/2012 4:46:33 PM
From: Thehammer	Respond to of 793619

my feeling is that 'ground game' basically affects the margin, and yes it could be decisive, but people vote affirmatively because they believe in the candidate....despite obama's lousy ground game...(after all he got about 8 million less votes than in 2008...if his 'ground game' was so fantastic how did he 'lose' those millions of votes? they didn't end up in the R column, that's for sure) yet, he still beat romney pretty handily This is purely conjecture but I would guess that the ground game was considerably better in swing states that mattered. Just guessing but they probably left it up to the locals in Florida and Texas.... I would guess the margin of lost votes (2008 vs 2012) was less in states like Virginia, Florida, etc...