Rovian Roundtable

Coordination between the Rovian machine and the local Right wing attack machines has always been suspected, but now we have pictorial confirmation, courtesy of MDE himself.

This post revealed some more:

For one hour today, I had the privilege of visiting with White House Advisor Karl Rove. Along with a few other GOP bloggers, we had the chance to ask Karl Rove anything we wanted.

Hey MDE, can you send me the transcript of the meeting, I am very curious *grin*

Flash

UPDATE: via the comments, AAA shares the link of a live blog of the discussion. I found the exchange on how the President followed 2004 elections results very interesting.

G: On 04, did tech help him learn the results faster?

R: Got the results on approach to Edwards. He was getting unending results and it was all bad.

Everything was looking bad. Down everywhere. Across the demographics.

It didn’t make sense.

He had to tell the Pres once they landed and that it didn’t look good.

Bush once they got off Marine 1
“Everyone put your gameface on.”

Rove then spent all day asking the press to explain how they could be losing their bread and butter voters?

Everytime the press did call back if they did, they had some excuse.

G: On 04, did tech help him learn the results faster?

R: Got the results on approach to Edwards. He was getting unending results and it was all bad.

Everything was looking bad. Down everywhere. Across the demographics.

It didn’t make sense.

Pollsters under 35 gather trash

Over 35 they are more reliable.

R:
How quickly did they know they were gonna win on election night?

They had a computer at the WH in the dinner room. It was set up with a program with an interactive map he could click on to see the results because they had people in each court house sending in results from pda’s.

He went through the critical districts from 00 and as he did, he saw that they were up big in them. He saw they were well ahead of where they needed to be.

Before 9:00 he knew they were gonna win

Many of the staff had told their wives not to come in, because due to the tracking polls.

They looked at him like he was insane, and it covered their coverage of the day.

He does feel bad for Kerry. for a few hours he thought he was gonna be President because of the exit polls.

Oh, and the classic of all:

MB: Can we see the “playbook”.

R: It is already in a chip in your heads, but you just don’t know it.

Let the photo shopping begin!

Seriously, a very good exchange and incredibly informative for folks on both sides of the aisle. Everyone should give it a look!