Lawsuit incoming in 3...2...1...
I can't imagine the billionaires who funded the campaign and the various Super PACs are going to be pleased to find out Romney likely lost because of a failed GOTV effort.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/as-natio...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au5WjgbQnYrSdFd...
Romney had 37,000 field volunteers, plus phone bank. I don't know how many were in each of the four tipping point states, but had each of them been able to bring in between 10 and 20 voters who didn't vote (of the 2 million extra who voted for McCain in 2008 but were absent this year), Romney could have won.
Instead it sounds like due to the massive Orca failure, they all gave up and went home.
(and fwiw, I say this as someone who voted for Obama. Not sour grapes here, just assessing the IT project failure.)
In Scotland we have 3rd generation systems (one system for all elections vertically, local government, Scottish Parliament, Westminster Parliament, European Parliament, and horizontally, 2011, 2008, 2007 back to the 80s).
The US parties be roughly considered as having 2 and half generation systems, so you might expect a difference at the top end of that.
I don't follow US elections that closely but you can work the numbers out.