Seriously? Romney Was 'Shellshocked'? - Business Insider

Two days ago, after Mitt Romney lost the election, I asked those who had been predicting a Romney win a simple question:

Were you actually wrong? (And if so, why, given the polls?)

Or:

Were you just trying to project confidence?

For most folks predicting that Romney would win, I assumed the answer was the latter. After all, as analysts like Nate Silver had explained for months leading up the election, the poll averages NEVER favored a Romney victory. To confidently believe that Romney was going to win in the face of that data seemed either the height of arrogance and denial or, more likely, just putting a good poker-face on for the sake of the game.

But it seems as though not just Romney supporters but the Romney inner circle actually believed that he would win.

So much so that they were apparently "shellshocked" by the loss.

I can understand being "bitterly disappointed" by the loss. I can understand being "crushed."? I have huge admiration for anyone who tries to do anything hard, and running for President is brutally hard.

But being shocked?

To be shocked, it seems to me, you really would have had to suspend disbelief a long time ago and disappear into your own fantasy land. And given that that appears to have been what might have happened here, it doesn't reflect well on Romney's management ability.

All through the campaign, Romney told a story about how he was a practical, pragmatic leader with exceptional analytical and management skills ? exactly the background needed to get the country back on track.

Well, I can tell you that one of the first critical skills of any pragmatic leader is the ability to see things as they are as opposed to seeing things the way they wish or hope they would be.

The Romney campaign apparently had a theory that there was going to be such a groundswell of support for Romney, and such a general lack of enthusiasm for Obama, that Romney supporters would overwhelm Obama supporters and render the polls wrong.

That was certainly a possible theory.

But it was just that ? a theory.

Specifically, it was hope. Not a strategy. And, ultimately, it was not reality.

Optimism is one thing. Denial is another. So here's hoping that Team Romney wasn't really as shocked by the loss as they now claim to be.

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/seriously-romney-was-shellshocked-by-his-loss-2012-11

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What cinema experiences have you shared with your kids or loved ...

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Do you have movie events in your household? We do. The year before last, to introduce my youngest daughter, Katie, to the three original ?Star Wars? movies, we had three successive dinner/movie nights with my brother, who is quite a film buff.

So when I mentioned Tuesday?s news that Walt Disney Co. will buy?Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion?and plans to release a seventh live-action ?Star Wars? movie in 2015, my 9-year-old?s observation was that this will ultimately lead to more movie nights.

Movie nights are a great way to share theatrical experiences with a new generation or someone else who has somehow managed to avoid the experience the first time around. Right now, Katie and I are working our way through reading all of the Harry Potter books. She?s seen all of the movies through the years, but this is her first experience with the source literature.

I promised her that when we do complete all seven books, we will have a Harry Potter movie marathon weekend. We?re halfway through Book 4, ?Goblet of Fire,? right now, so I estimate that it will take us at least another year to achieve this milestone.

Shortly after my boyfriend and I began dating a year and a half ago, we started working our way through re-viewing the entire collection of James Bond films. So far 22 official films in the series have been released, which began 50 years ago with ?Dr. No.?

Over the summer, we realized that the next film, ?Skyfall,? is opening on Nov. 9. We grew more attentive to the pace of our viewing, so we?d be all caught up before that one comes out. Last night we watched ?Casino Royale,? Daniel Craig?s first outing as the super-spy. One more to go ? ?Quantum of Solace? ? before our next big screen outing.

Another favorite series of mine in recent years was the ?Lord of the Rings? movies, which somehow my boyfriend has managed to avoid (that can?t have been by choice, right?). Yesterday, I saw a Twitter post about a?Denny?s Restaurant ?Hobbit?-inspired menu ? ?What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn?t he??

I worked at Denny?s enough years that I?m not thrilled about this marketing tie-in with one of my favorite movie series. But it did get me to thinking ? if Denny?s has a special ?Hobbit? menu right now, that means the movie must be coming out sooner than I realized.

I got online and checked. Yep ? Dec. 14. Just enough time to catch the boyfriend up on the ?Lord of the Rings? trilogy before the new one hits the big screen!

What movie favorites have you shared with your children or loved ones? And do you spread your viewing out over a reasonable amount of time, or go full-bore and have a weekend marathon?

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Lisa

Lisa Maria Boyles is a mother, a writer and a runner who loves all things food and news related. She is probably running, eating and mothering at a place near you now. You can e-mail her at lisa@thefullmoxie.com.

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Eli Lilly plans $140M Indy expansion

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A worldwide diabetes epidemic has Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly Company expanding to meet the insulin needs of diabetics.

To do that, Lilly is building a new manufacturing plant on its Indianapolis Technology Center campus.

Insulin is the cornerstone of the Eli Lilly Company. It introduced the product to the U.S. market from Indianapolis in 1923.

In its new project, cartridges used to inject insulin with a specially made pen will be manufactured in Indianapolis. The need is clear, says Enrique Conterno, president of Lilly Diabetes.

"Last year, diabetes affected more than 350 million people world wide. By 2030, that figure is expected to rise to over 550 million people," he says.

The cartridges are already made at Lilly plants in Europe. The pens are already made in Indianapolis, so Lilly executives decided to bring the new cartridge technology to Indianapolis too.

"This is one of Lilly's most significant U.S.-based manufacturing investments in the last decade," said John Lechleiter, CEO and Chairman of Eli Lilly.

Spending $140 million, Lilly will expand its Indianapolis insulin manufacturing plant by 80,000 square feet. Construction will begin immediately and the local impact of the project will be felt immediately too, said Sean Seyferth, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 481.

"The positive impact of this project will be felt immediately in the construction industry, by the more than 250 highly trained, skilled tradesman it will take to build this first of its kind facility in the United States," he said.

Construction is expected to be finished by March 2014. And when it's done, the local impact will continue, said Maria Crowe, President of Manufacturing Operations for Lilly.

"When the project is complete and the facility is operational, it will employ about 100 different kind of employees to manufacture insulin in this facility," she said.

Not all of the jobs will be new hires. Some will come from current Lilly operations in Indianapolis. But it's a $140 million reassurance that Lilly is committed to Indianapolis.

While the Indianapolis plant will be finished in 2014, it won't be up and running until 2015. That's because once built, it has to be approved by the FDA and other health oversight organizations worldwide. But before that, Lilly says it has four diabetes medicines in late stage development. Three of them will be ready to go to regulatory authorities next year.
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Source: http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/marion_county/eli-lilly-plans-140m-indy-expansion

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Deputy PM Clegg warns UK risks sliding to EU exit

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a crisis that could end with the world's sixth largest economy leaving the European Union, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned ahead of a showdown over budget spending with other states in the 27-member bloc.

A day after Prime Minister David Cameron was defeated in parliament for not demanding a cut to the EU budget, Clegg said on Thursday that the behavior of the rebel lawmakers could leave Britain isolated in the EU or outside it altogether.

"You will never achieve (anything) by stamping your foot and saying, 'Well we want to be part of this club, we want to unilaterally rewrite the rules of the games, and we want to pick and choose unilaterally what we sign up to,'" said Clegg, the leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats, the junior party in Cameron's coalition government.

"My worry is that it is a much shorter leap from that to an outright crisis which would leave the United Kingdom fully marginalized or even out of the European Union than people seem to imagine," Clegg said.

In a sign of the infighting over Europe at the top of the government, Clegg spoke an hour after finance minister George Osborne warned that Britain would veto any deal on the budget that would be bad for the UK taxpayer.

The EU's 1 trillion euro ($1.3 trillion) long-term spending plan has become the focus of a wider debate in Britain about the benefits of membership of the union, just as the subset of members in the single currency zone attempts to fight its long-running debt crisis with closer integration.

"People are outraged when they see money being wasted in Europe," Osborne, the 41-year-old Cameron ally, told the BBC.

"Britain has become more Eurosceptic over my lifetime."

Cameron, who wants the EU's long-term budget to rise only in line with inflation, has tried to appease the hard-line eurosceptics in his party by saying he will seek a new settlement on ties with the EU and then put it to voters in a referendum.

The 46-year-old leader says Britain should stay a member of its biggest trading partner, but some bankers and investors have warned that the referendum gamble could backfire, given the public's distrust of the European agenda.

The rebellion within the Conservative Party will also revive uncomfortable memories for Cameron of the part European divisions played in the downfall of the party's last two prime ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

The opposition Labour Party's decision to vote with the rebels could lock Britain's two main parties into a spiral of euroscepticism ahead of the next general election, due in May 2015.

VETO TIME?

The defeat in parliament will push Cameron into taking a tough position when he joins other EU leaders for a summit on the budget in Brussels on November 22-23.

"We want a cut in the EU budget," Osborne told BBC Radio 4. "We are at the beginning of a negotiation. Let us see where that negotiation leads."

He would not be drawn on whether he thought securing such a cut was possible or not.

"No one should doubt David Cameron's determination, my determination to deliver a deal that is good for the taxpayer and that puts an end to outrageous increases in European spending," Osborne said.

Osborne talked past a question on whether the Conservative Party was out of control over Europe but said Wednesday's defeat in parliament meant the government had to listen to lawmakers.

"We will only put a deal to the House of Commons that we think the House of Commons will accept," he said.

"If it comes to a vote ... the House of Commons will face a choice: you either accept the deal or you accept no deal. Now no deal doesn't mean there is no spending in Europe; it means you go to these annual budgets in the European Union." (Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Will Waterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/britain-says-wants-cut-eu-budget-083504923--business.html

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