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going to take them all that far.”
Former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich (R-Ga.), in a December
interview with The Huffington
Post, said there are cultural differences between the two parties that
have held the GOP back in terms of
organizing and coalition building.
“One of the characteristics of
the right is that it’s much harder
to have social networking, because people on the right like being iconoclastic,” Gingrich said.
“On the left you have a natural
grouping. You have the sense of,
‘What’s this week’s cause? And
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we did turtles this week. What
can we do next week?’”
Reed, however, dismissed the
idea that what motivated Democrats was all that different from
what might motivate Republicans.
“If there was one thing we did
different than anybody else it was
just resources. Jim Messina and
those guys said early on I’m going to bet a lot on technology, and
that was it. I don’t think this is a
uniquely Democrat thing either,”
Reed said. “If you’ve grown up on
the Internet, or if you’ve been on
the Internet for a long time and
built software there, you want to
give tools to the users because
they will do your job for you.”
A cutout of
Mitt Romney
is loaded
into a truck
by workers
after a U.S.
embassy
election party
at a local
hotel in Delhi
on Nov. 7,
2012.