[EL] Super PACs and the Presidency

[Steve Hoersting]

To those who read this e-mail as predicting a Romney win, fair enough: If
that is the way you read it, I was incorrect.

But as to my main point (and one directed at an election law list) -- to
not blame the Super PACs; they were never the President's problem -- I
stand by it. There were always plenty of independent players and funds
supporting Team Obama.

I still believe the President ebbed in his reelection effort -- and no one
doubts that today's race was close; too close for a well-liked incumbent --
because of an Obama agenda of what I called earlier today and continue to
call "out-sized collectivism."

Congratulations to the compliance team and strategists at Perkins Coie,

Steve

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Steve Hoersting <hoersting at gmail.com>wrote:

> Should, by this time tomorrow, President Obama fail to win re-election, as
> now seems the case, many will point to a point made by *Politico* on
> August 20th of this year:
>
> Obama has himself to blame for what has, arguably, been the greatest
> unforced error of his political career: his team's failure to adequately
> form a strategy to deal with the avalanche of unregulated cash raining down
> on him from GOP and Romney-allied Super PACs.
>
>
> As one who started blogging against the FEC political-committee
> regulations that would kill the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and six other
> notable organizations on the Right and Left, and as one who worked on some
> of the cases that would bring Americans the "Super PAC" -- and there were
> four or five cases responsible, not just two -- it is tempting to want to
> echo emphatically the *Politico* commentary: *You're darn right.*
>
> But the commentary doesn't hold. While I understand the role of freed
> speech in this election, and the importance of increasingly alternative
> committees speaking in an increasing alternative media, I recognize that
> the real reason the President ebbs in his reelection effort is his
> inability to cloak an out-sized collectivism in American garb.
>
> No one could pull that off. It is regrettable he tried,
>
> --
> Stephen M. Hoersting
>
> http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79867.html
>
>


-- 
Stephen M. Hoersting
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