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C'mon, if you're a Democrat he was the boogey man for nearly 20 years.
He is really taking it up the butt since Romney lost. However, he did dominate the field of political campaigning more than any other person in at least 50 years.
He had one brilliant idea and it came at the technologically right moment. Or the technology gave him the idea. However it happened Karl Rove realized it was easier to get someone who supported you out to vote than to convince someone else that they should vote for your candidate.
Once computers started assembling mailing lists and companies began to sell them and the cost of computer processing made it economical, a political campaign could now know a very large amount of information on voters and potential voters. Plus computerized printing allowed different mailings for many different political issues. Before computers a housing development all got a general mailing that was chosen out of maybe 2-4 the candidate had. Under Rove an evangelical Christian got a picture of a dead fetus and a gun owner got a mailing saying they were coming for his guns the day after the election.
So, as we learned, the more intense, hatred inspiring, apocalyptic message that could be sent to a person to get him to vote, the more effective the message.
So, what happened to Rove to make him far less effective? Well, you can only threaten to take someones guns away so many times before people begin to realize its not happening. Or telling them that a Democrat will raise their taxes, or any other "crisis" that would motivate someone to vote.
Rove's "problem" is that he is 62. Back when he started he was up on the latest computer technology. But by 2005 the internet was strikingly different than anything Rove had ever seen. And he just didn't understand like a younger person, or geek who made it a big part of their lives. And along comes Obama and the Dems and one up Karl and make him look as old fashioned as he is.
So, he has the personality of a toad, the morals of a snake and the charm of a pirahna and I will happily see him off. But I don't for a minute forget how dangerous and powerful he has been both to and and for America.
He is really taking it up the butt since Romney lost. However, he did dominate the field of political campaigning more than any other person in at least 50 years.
He had one brilliant idea and it came at the technologically right moment. Or the technology gave him the idea. However it happened Karl Rove realized it was easier to get someone who supported you out to vote than to convince someone else that they should vote for your candidate.
Once computers started assembling mailing lists and companies began to sell them and the cost of computer processing made it economical, a political campaign could now know a very large amount of information on voters and potential voters. Plus computerized printing allowed different mailings for many different political issues. Before computers a housing development all got a general mailing that was chosen out of maybe 2-4 the candidate had. Under Rove an evangelical Christian got a picture of a dead fetus and a gun owner got a mailing saying they were coming for his guns the day after the election.
So, as we learned, the more intense, hatred inspiring, apocalyptic message that could be sent to a person to get him to vote, the more effective the message.
So, what happened to Rove to make him far less effective? Well, you can only threaten to take someones guns away so many times before people begin to realize its not happening. Or telling them that a Democrat will raise their taxes, or any other "crisis" that would motivate someone to vote.
Rove's "problem" is that he is 62. Back when he started he was up on the latest computer technology. But by 2005 the internet was strikingly different than anything Rove had ever seen. And he just didn't understand like a younger person, or geek who made it a big part of their lives. And along comes Obama and the Dems and one up Karl and make him look as old fashioned as he is.
So, he has the personality of a toad, the morals of a snake and the charm of a pirahna and I will happily see him off. But I don't for a minute forget how dangerous and powerful he has been both to and and for America.
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