Why Mitt Romney Loss

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Top Republicans affair for the aboriginal time aback Acclamation Day say the affair absent its bid to bound Admiral Barack Obama because appointee Mitt Romney did not accede to criticism acerb abundant or outline a specific calendar with a ample appeal.
In conversations at the Republican Governors Association assay in Las Vegas, a bisected dozen affair leaders predicted the GOP will lose afresh if it keeps active the aforementioned playbook based on platitudes in abode of abundant policies. Instead, they asserted, the affair needs to apprentice the acquaint from its loss, account voters' adeptness and put advanced an calendar that appeals aloft the while, macho voters who are its base.
"We charge to accede the actuality that we got beat," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said in an interview. "We acutely got exhausted and we charge to admit that."


Little added than a anniversary afterwards Romney came up abbreviate in his presidential bid, the affair elders were searching at his errors and analytical advanced to 2016's race. Some of the contenders eying a White House run of their own were on duke and agilely because their chances. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appointed a clandestine affair on the sidelines with Haley Barbour, the aloft Mississippi governor who is broadly apparent as one of the GOP's sharpest political operatives.
"We charge to accept a brutal, atrociously honest appraisal of aggregate we did," Barbour said. "We charge to yield aggregate afar ... and actuate what we did that formed and what we did that didn't work."
Other abeyant White House contenders such as Jindal, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were analogue a eyes for the affair in advancing elections.
"We charge to amount out what we did appropriate and what we did wrong, how we can advance our tone, our message, our technology, our assembly — all the things that are appropriate to win elections," McDonnell said. "We are disappointed, but we are not discouraged."
With acclamation in duke and alive demographic trends in mind, these Republicans are searching at how best to position the affair to accomplish appropriate with growing numbers of Hispanic, atramentous and adolescent voters who overwhelmingly voted Democratic endure week. The Republicans were still anguish over affiliated criticism of Romney from Obama and Vice Admiral Joe Biden — and what they saw as Romney's generally abortive response.
"They spent all their time authoritative Mitt Romney unacceptable and authoritative him out to be anyone who was capricious and unacceptable to abundant of the American humans — and it worked," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said in an interview.


In the hallways at the conference, the governors and their top admiral analogously abhorrent Romney's accident on an asperous communications strategy. They said Romney accustomed himself to be branded a accumulated brigand who put the interests of the affluent aloft those of middle-income voters.
"We didn't accept able agency by which to adverse the attacks the Obama-Biden advance took adjoin Mitt Romney and his team," Walker said. "I just don't anticipate you can let that go unanswered."
Time and again, the governors acicular to Obama attacks that acclimatized into voters' minds.
"His accomplished advance was a fear-and-smear advance to accomplish Romney unacceptable and to accusation George Bush for annihilation that happened while Obama was president," Barbour said. "This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture backer who doesn't affliction about humans like you, ships jobs overseas, is a quintessential backer and is affiliated to a accepted equestrian."
Barbour added, "An advance changing is an advance accepted to."


Had the criticism been apparent to be apocryphal or unfair, the after-effects ability accept been better, said Bill Bennett, an apprenticeship secretary in the Reagan administering and an breezy adviser to governors.
"We were in a big fight. We came with a knife; they came with a gun," Bennett said. "If Mitt Romney had responded and had we responded on his account — and had his advance pushed aback added angrily — I anticipate it would accept been a altered result."
Jindal, however, attributed Romney's accident to a abridgement of "a specific eyes that affiliated with the American people."
"His advance was abundantly about his adventures and his experience," Jindal said. "But time and time again, adventures and acquaintance is not abundant to win an election. You accept to accept a vision, you accept to affix your behavior to the aspirations of the American people. I don't anticipate the advance did that and as a result, this became a challenge amid personalities and — you apperceive what? — Chicago won that."
Romney casting his accident in a altered light, at atomic in a buzz alarm with top donors Wednesday. He asserted that Obama won re-election because of the "gifts" the admiral had already provided to blacks, Hispanics and adolescent voters and because of the president's accomplishment to acrylic Romney as anti-immigrant.
"The president's campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift," Romney said, citation clearing proposals aimed at Hispanics and chargeless contraception advantage that appealed to adolescent women. "He fabricated a big accomplishment on baby things."
Romney said his campaign, in contrast, had been about "big issues for the accomplished country." He said he faced problems as a applicant because he was "getting exhausted up" by the Obama advance and said the debates accustomed him to appear back.
The Republican appointee didn't accede any above missteps and said his aggregation had run a superb campaign.

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