Brett Doster, Florida advisor for the Romney
campaign, has acknowledged their candidate lost in Florida, according to The
Miami Herald.
According to the paper, “The numbers in Florida show
this was winnable,” Doster said in a statement. “We thought based on our
polling and range of organization that we had done what we needed to win.
Obviously, we didn’t, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a
sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won’t
happen again.”
The numbers in Florida look unlikely to change in
Romney’s favor.
Miami-Dade finished tallying a backlog of 54,000
absentee ballots Thursday and it marginally increased Obama’s lead.
Still outstanding:
• Broward County. It has about 8,000 absentee
ballots outstanding. Obama won Broward 67-32 percent. If those numbers hold, it
would give Obama 2,800 more votes.
• Palm Beach County. It could have as many as 8,000
votes yet to add to its tally. Obama won that county 58-41 percent. If those
numbers hold, Obama would pick up another 1,360 more votes.
• Duval County. The only non-South Florida County,
Duval has about 3,600 absentee ballots to be counted. Romney won it narrowly,
51-48 percent. At that rate, Romney would pick up only 108 more votes.
Even if the estimates from South Florida were
reversed and Obama’s extra projected votes were handed to Romney, the
Republican would come nowhere near to winning.
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