Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: Team Landrieu revving up the base for runoff election (Mary's Army)

The Uptown Messenger ^ | November 15, 2014 | Allan Katz and Danae Columbus

[JohnBrowdie]

[VRW Conspirator]

I hope Cassidy and crew does not let their guard down.

[Cowboy Bob]

Watch out. Mary’s Army might frag her.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bill Cassidy standing with Phil Robertson, Sarah Palin right move to motivate his base, experts say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3227327/posts

[txrefugee]

Now is the time for every conservative to show up at the polls and crush any hope the Democrats have of getting off the floor. A record turnout against Landrieu would be a powerful sign that this trouncing isn’t over.

[Paleo Conservative]

As most readers recall, even though Republicans and third party groups spent $20 million to defeat her, Landrieu ran first in the primary and even met some of her voter targets. Landrieu’s exit polls show she has an “uphill battle” but can still win if she does an excellent job of turning out her vote. Even Republican media personality Jeff Crouere wrote this week that Cassidy and the Republicans should not discount Landrieu.

So what! The November 4 election was an open primary in Louisiana, and the incumbent 3-term senator failed to get anywhere close to 50% of the vote. I don't think many fo there were 3 Republicans running and a seriously doubt any of the 14.8% of the vote for the other 2 Republicans will go to Landrieu. Republican senate candidates got a combined 55.8% of the vote on election day. In fact, I think Republicans will be highly motivated to show up for the runoff.

[tflabo]

How’s that DemRat economy and ObarryCare working out for ya women voters?

[deport]

There were eight candidates on the ballot for Senator. Four Democrats, three Republicans and a Libertarian.

Results as follows:

Wayne Ables (D)             0.77% 11323 
"Bill" Cassidy (R)         40.97% 603048 
Thomas Clements (R)         0.96% 14173 
Mary L. Landrieu (D)       42.08% 619397 
"Rob" Maness (R)           13.76% 202556 
Brannon Lee McMorris (L)    0.89% 13034 
Vallian Senegal (D)         0.26% 3835 
William P. Waymire, Jr. (D) 0.32% 4673 

Turnout maybe suspect as this is the only statewide race on the ballot and hunting season is
ongoing. There are two CD runoffs and the rest are judges, DAs, city/local races.

Maybe the DD/Palin efforts can help push Cassidy into the winners circle.

Bill Cassidy standing with Phil Robertson, Sarah Palin right move to motivate his base, experts say

Sarah Palin, 'Duck Dynasty' to rally in Louisiana [Maness as well for Cassidy]

[Kickass Conservative]

From this point forward, the esteemed pudgy lily white female Senator from LA should be called Mary O’Landrieu, Princess of Obamacare.

[Din Maker]

Do not underestimate the witch and her N’Yawlins base: Welfare Queens, gays, baby-killers and Blacks. We get over confident and complacent at our own peril. She has never lost a run-off.

[Din Maker]

How’s that DemRat economy and ObarryCare working out for ya women voters?
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It’s working well for the single moms with 3 kids; all by different men. Their ObamaCare is subsidized, the kids get free breakfast and lunch at school, they get food stamps, help with rent and utilities and a monthly check. That’s why Democrats always get this demographic vote.

[Paleo Conservative]

Turnout maybe suspect as this is the only statewide race on the ballot and hunting season is ongoing. There are two CD runoffs and the rest are judges, DAs, city/local races.

Well, Louisiana Republicans need to get Republicans to vote in early voting. There's no excuse not to vote in the runoff. Hunters have jobs and aren't hunting 7 days a week.

[deport]

I agree that Republicans need to strongly emphasize the GOTV effort.

[Paleo Conservative]

I agree that Republicans need to strongly emphasize the GOTV effort.

In Texas, Senator Cornyn and Attorney General Abbott combined resources to fund phone banking and GOTV for local Republican parties across the state. Not only did it help their campaigns, it helped Republicans throughout Texas. Phone banking and block walking allowed Republicans to identify Republican voters ahead of time, so that we were able to target our GOTV voters to the right people.

[Paleo Conservative]

In Nueces county, which is majority Hispanic, Republicans swept all the races in which there was a Republican candidate (for the first time ever). We picked up the County Clerk’s office by just 625 votes out of over 55K votes cast.

[dandiegirl]

Her voters will not turn out for an obscure run-off like this. They will have no idea that they should go vote for her on that day. They are not paying attention.

[deport]

Corpus Christi area, that’s great.

[Paleo Conservative]

With the win in the County Clerk's race, Republicans now control the office that runs elections. We can make changes that can cut the cost of running elections.

Democrats who used to control the county commission made many of the Democrat precincts small to make oversight of Democrat precincts more difficult. I was an alternate judge on election day. Only 88 people voted where I was working, and we had 2 precincts combined at the polling place with about 2500 registered voters combined. On Padre Island there were Republican precincts that had over 100 voters the first hour and had lines all day. Nueces county spent over $1 million on the November 4 elections, and there are lots of precincts that could be combined to cut costs and make supervision and poll watching easier. In early elections, we could eliminate the number of permanent and mobile early voting precincts. We have 3 permanent precincts downtown within walking distance of each other. There are polls at CCISD headquarters, Nueces County Courthouse, and Corpus Christi City Hall. The 100 foot no electioneering limits of the CCISD and county courthouse locations overlap each other. There are lots of opportunities to cut the cost of elections without impacting the ability of registered voters to vote.

[The Citizen Soldier]

Need to get Troy and the boys from Swamp People to these rallies.