tiShington pa5t February 24 2013 The GOP revival must go beyond joining Twitter By Stuart Stevens Stuart Stevens was the lead strategist of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. There seems to be a desire to blame Republicans' electoral difficulties and the Romney campaign's loss on technological failings. I with this were the problem, because it would be relatively easy to fix. But it's not. The "tech gap" is being pushed by some as a larger indication of the issue of Republicans being seen as old and out of date. The latest piling on was a piece by my old Austin pal Robert Draper in the New York Times magazine. Draper breathlessly reports that there are young, technology- focused Republican operatives who feel that the Republican Party should be doing more (which we should) and that, horrors of horrors, I chose not to tweet during the campaign. (For the record, I've had a Twitter account since shortly after the service launched and follow it perhaps a bit too obsessively.) This sort of thinking is how cultures end up worshiping volcanoes: A volcano belches in a drought, it rains and the two are forever linked. Yes, the Romney campaign won seniors and lost voters under 30, though our numbers were a significant improvement from the 2008 presidential campaign. But was this a tech-driven gap or more reflective of substance? Like most things in life, the answer is a bit of both. I don't think it's very controversial to suggest that a candidate who favors gay marriage and free contraception might have more appeal to a younger demographic. Does anyone want to argue that free contraception is seen as a more pressing issue to your average 21 -year-old than to a 55-year-old voter, or that there are more gay rights organizations on college campuses than in VFW halls? Likewise, why did Mitt Romney win older voters? They are more concerned with the economy than with same-sex marriage, and they are more skeptical of or opposed to Obamacare. Why did 100,0