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LOL. Good. And the firm won’t want to bite the hand that feeds it, so it will soft sell what the GOP did wrong. Then, the GOP will focus on two or three other things like “we need to talk more about CRT or Hunter Biden”. And then in 2 years, they’ll hire another firm to do the post mortem. Good times.
This PA voter will tell them for free. The Rs ran terrible candidates. No one liked Oz, who had made a fortune scamming gullible people with quack remedies. Mastriano was a Trump terrorist who paid for several busses to take rioters to invade the Capitol on January 6. >

Mastriano's close association with neo-nazi media platform heads really, REALLY looked bad in a state where the Tree of Life shooting happened. >

Not to mention his opponent, Josh Shapiro, is Jewish. Something about being openly antisemitic while running against a Jewish man really looked bad. >

While Shapiro won by a comfortable margin, still, 41.7% of Pennsylvanians saw no problem with the Neo-Nazi. That’s kind of scary. >

41.7% of voters saw no problem with a Neo-Nazi. And many rural voters are programmed to think that any negative traits about Republican candidates are “fake news”. It’s still not good, but it’s not as bad as 41.7% of Pennsylvanians. >

Programmed to think or willfully ignorant? Some 74 million saw with their own eyes for four years of lies, alternative facts, missteps, gaffes, fumbles, fuck-ups, foibles and petty politics in action and went to the trouble of asking for a second helping. >

I think you underestimate the power of propaganda. These people are basically brainwashed into seeing democrat = baby killer. And they vote on that single issue overwhelmingly. >

I live in PA, my family is republican. Can confirm they simply voted to “protect life.” They didn’t even like Oz or Mastriano, but the abortion issue is that important to them. >

My family lives in PA. Maybe your family is different, but the reasons mine give are mostly just excuses - the real reason is they don’t like that the state has become less white, and they don’t see white supremecists as a big problem in comparison. >

Consultants: After a deep dive into the data we have the answer
GQP: Well what is it?
Consultants: You're not going to like it
GQP: Tell us
Consultants: Seriously. You're not going to like it. Are you sure?
GQP: TELL US! Why do you think we gave you all of our ~~rube's~~ donor's money
Consultants: People figured out you only want to make their lives miserable and voted accordingly.
GQP: THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED!!! WE KNEW IT. >

A true consultant would put a finer spin on it to ensure that they continue to reap the benefit of being a preferred contractor.  It would be more like “we did both primary and secondary research and the findings were clear, while it’s possible that there were any exogenous factors impacting the outcome, our research shows that the messaging of the campaign did not resonate with the 18 to 34 high school and college educated demographics across both men and women who skewed higher in the participation percentage than in the past.” >

Yes this simple answer would be spelled out over the course of 300+ pages. >


Why are we here - page 1 - 5
Executive Summary - pages 6 - 10
Background and supporting data - pages 11 - 50
Hypotheses and Extrapolations - pages 51 - 100
Conclusions and Recommendations - pages 101 - 125
Supporting Material - pages 126 - 300 >

In the next round…I think maybe we should add a section on testing methodology. >

I think they just want to blame Hunter's laptop in the end >

So maybe supporting things people don't want is the problem?  I bet they aren't looking at that.  They are looking to how to redistrict. >

Maybe they are looking at what voters want, especially younger voters and soon to be voters, and taking the opposite position.  Because of course they know more about what voters need than the voters themselves do?  Kinda the authoritarian playbook because it was better in their idealist minds?   If they keep this up, they'll win themselves out of office eventually. >

Well the GOP has no platform. The GOP is interested in power, but they aren't going to just abandon their key crazy points.  They can't so they have really no where to go but denial and delusion.  For 40 years they have always done the same things.  I don't expect that to change.

If they keep this up, they'll win themselves out of office eventually.

yes >

Those in power have the resources to retain power.   Power is addictive.  Entitlement breeds greed.   Problem is retaining power means as we've seen tweaking the system in their favor.  Things like weakening voting and packing the courts.  This imbalance could now take another generation or two. >

Mastriano is a Christian Taliban and Oz is a TV buffoon. Give me the 100k. >

Oh I'm sure it's way more than that lol >

ok this is pretty funny:
“We didn’t do that well at all. Here you have Biden with a lot of failures. Super high inflation — higher than it’s been since 40 years — gasoline prices, interest rates going up, small businesses under the gun, and we have international problems existing. And yet no red wave,” said Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), who is helping finance the postmortem. “We want the God’s honest truth.”
We made up all these issues issues that aren't real and we want the God's honest truth...
"To me, there’s definitely a reasonable way of maintaining my pro-life position without being offensive to others.”
No, no there isn't. Taking away other people's rights will always be offensive, as it should be. >

Hahahahaha - I was just copy/pasting Meuser’s line about maintaining his pro-life position without being offensive. (Interesting word choice there).
How about stick with your “principles” of small government and not telling people what to believe and do? That’s a start? Right? >

How about high quality sex education and free contraceptives, including plan B? Neither would be terribly expensive, both would prevent many many abortions. >

Maybe don't select a christo-fascist candidate for governor who flat out refused to talk to the press or any potential voter who wasn't also a christo-fascist. Mastriano was an absolute terrible choice and the votes show that. >

Easy money.  Take the 2012 GOP “post mortem” and file the serial numbers off.  You get to be right and they aren’t gonna listen anyway. >

Save the research money.  Here's a hint: Nobody in PA likes someone from NJ coming in and telling them what is best for PA. >

I don't think the people wanted what your are selling >

They are probably researching ways to "win" in spite of unpopular candidates. >

I can save them a whole lotta money (they can pay me a finders fee, >

“paying a DC firm” lol months later and they still aren’t asking actual PA voters what they want, of course they lost >

"Why did we run a Confederate for governor in the only Northern state that was attacked by the Confederacy?" >

"This Confederate symbol is an embarrassment, particularly as we are a northern state." >

Future headline: GOP Blames Left, Lurches Right >

Yeah, since when did the GOP start paying any attention to science and math? >

For 1 dollar, I could tell them.
The GOP attacked: Women, people of color, Jews, Gays, teachers and schools, books and libraries, inclusive corporations, doctors and science, and tried to promote Christianity into our laws. 
Like dip shits, you fought against any sane measure to control Covid and you now have republican voters vaccinated at half the rate of democrat voters and republicans are now dying at 2 to 1 over democrats.
You tried to gerrymander the voting districts and you fully supported the insane lie that Trump won in 2020.
If you attack more than 50% of the voters, they might tend to vote for the other side.
Those are about half of your problems. For another dollar, I'll let you know the other half. >

You nominated a crazy election denying anti-semite and a crazy snake oil salesman. >

Sounds like money laundering because the reason is pretty obvious: 
Republicans don't have a platform and the few things they do talk about that's "sorta policy" is vehemently terrifying religious BS like women wearing full body coverings & medical bans on care OR destruction of the economy through tax cuts without budget cuts & defunding of every single piece of infrastructure from physical to poverty programs which is malicious to 99% of the population...
Why anyone would vote for them is beyond my understanding >

Real Americans don't like Nazis. There's your postmortem. >

The answers are simple:
Their policies are bad.
Their politicians are fake.
The first two have been true for so long that their propaganda is no longer convincing. >

The Republican Party only represents 1% of the population. They are only interested in what benefits the wealthy. All this other baloney is to get the rubes to vote for them. What’s the first thing they did after 2016? Tax cuts for the wealthy. They pack the courts to  be anti labor and favor corporations. >

Let me guess, "it was all stolen! Voter fraud! Italian bamboo satellites in Venezuela! Time to storm the Capitol!" >

Discovering the truth is one thing. Accepting it is another. >

I remember exit polls out of PA said one issue rose above the economy for voters, and there's likely your sign: abortion. >

Can you imagine the GOP accepting this? >

Nope, and that's on them >

Post-mortem? Bullshit.
I've lived in PA for 50 years and those guys will just go and keep doing the same same thing expecting a different result.
Anyone not familiar with our state's politics don't realize just how constipated they really are. >

Because you picked the two worst candidates to run. Dr Oz has the worst political instincts possibly in history. The gov pick was an extremist who ran as an extremist. >

How about offering plans to fix problems?
Nope, repeat the same nonsense, offer no alternative. 
“We didn’t do that well at all. Here you have Biden with a lot of failures. Super high inflation — higher than it’s been since 40 years — gasoline prices, interest rates going up, small businesses under the gun, and we have international problems existing. And yet no red wave,” said Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), who is helping finance the postmortem. “We want the God’s honest truth.” >

I’ll help: Your. Platform. Is. Unpopular. >

They nominated a guy who wore a confederate uniform to the US army war college to be the governor of Pennsylvania. The same Pennsylvania that fought for the union, and the same Pennsylvania whose Quakers ran the underground railroad. Don't run a southern sympathizer for governor in Pennsylvania!! >

They won't like the answers and will refuse to change. >

The GOP lives in a fantasy bubble of their own creation. They started believing their own lies. I'll send my contact details privately so you can send me a consultant fee. >

Dear PA GOP,
PA is a purple state where moderates do well. Run moderate Republicans (who actually live here) and you’ll make out fine. 
Now where’s my $1 million consulting fee? >

Doctor Oz and Doug mastriano. Pretty simple. Can I bill the PA gop? >

Will they read this thread lol >

They should just pay me for half the price and I’ll tell them what went wrong. >

The GOP is officially the party of magical thinking. They are paying to find an comforting lie that they can cling to. >

I can tell them for free. Do something, anything positive, to help all the American people >

I don’t think they’ll like the answers. Their party is stuck on shitty, dividing policies that help only billionaires and extremists. The majority of people are in the middle and don’t want what they are offering. >

You ran a lunatic who promised, if elected, to rig all future elections... Also, abortion >

Penn GOP-  why is our “fuck the people” playbook not working?