I was always very bearish about Romney’s chances of beating President Obama, but one of the things I took for granted was that I assumed his legendary management background meant that he’d have an incredibly well run organization that would get the nuts and bolts right. To be fair, Obama didn’t face a primary challenge and already had a 2008 organization he could build on, s0 he clearly had an advantage going in. At the same time, some of the mistakes recounted in this article — ad strategy, ground game and technological meltdowns — were pretty surprising coming from a candidate who ran on being a super-competent executive.