Posted on 01/24/2023 9:06:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For months leading up to the 2022 midterm election, pundits with crystal balls emphatically declared, “The red wave is coming!” To their credit, a perfect storm was brewing: The party out of power historically performs well during a midterm. President Joe Biden’s approval rating was underwater, and working-class families were suffering from the highest inflation rate in more than 40 years. Nonetheless, Republicans only won a narrow majority in the House and lost a Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
What turned the supposed red tsunami into a scarlet trickle? Simply put, the Republican Party failed to adopt a national early and mail-in voting strategy. If Republicans utilized in-person early voting and mail-in voting in Arizona, as they did in Florida, then Kari Lake would almost certainly be governor today.
Since 2020, election integrity has been a top concern for voters. While the general consensus was that Republicans should vote in person on Election Day, this backfired disastrously in 2022: An hour into the election, an estimated 30 percent of Maricopa County polling locations reported problems with machines. Conservative voters who had waited until the last day to cast their ballots were disenfranchised in the ensuing confusion. Ultimately, Lake lost by a mere 17,000 votes. If Republicans had voted early, then they would not have experienced these problems, would have been able to get more Republicans to the polls, and, most importantly, would have won.
In Nevada, Republican senatorial candidate Adam Laxalt lost by only 8,000 votes. Despite there being 654,145 registered Republicans in the state, he earned only 490,388 votes. If we assume that not a single independent vote was cast for Laxalt, this means that 163,757 registered Republicans were not mobilized to vote for their party’s candidate. When every registered Republican in Nevada had a ballot in their mailbox 20 days before the election, and ballot harvesting is entirely legal under state law, there is no excuse for not achieving near-record Republican turnout — especially in a state that was forecasting snow and inclement weather on Election Day.
Republican officials did not use every electoral tool to their advantage, and Republican voters suffered because of it.
For all of the post-mortems citing candidate quality as the reason for losing Pennsylvania, they are missing the point: It is a cold numbers game. By the time Republican senatorial candidate Mehmet Oz debated his opponent, more than 500,000 Pennsylvanians had already turned in their mail-in and absentee ballots. Moreover, of those ballots, 407,062 were returned by registered Democrats and 107,086 from Republicans. It didn’t matter that Oz received more votes on Election Day because Democrats were locking in votes and chasing ballots 50 days prior.
And with those 50 days of possible early voting, it is inexcusable that by the end of Election Day, more than 1 million registered Republicans had not voted. Voters and activists should be livid about these failures and vow never again to waste a single day of early voting.
Republican voters should vote as early as possible so that campaign money is spent targeting an increasingly dwindling number of voters every day as the election nears. For the party that supposedly respects the laws of economics, it is the clear economical way to spend valuable campaign cash since more dollars to fewer people means more dollars spent per voter!
Republicans need our dedicated voters voting early, and then they need activists and leaders working to utilize every day as an opportunity to drive turnout — if Republicans refocus their campaigns into logistical machines, they are never going to lose an election again.
This problem — this fixable, albeit tediously difficult problem — is the genesis of the creation of Early Vote Action PAC. EVA is going to organize and mobilize, devoid of insider political drama plaguing the RNC and the D.C. swamp, and lead the way in ensuring that every right-leaning American is registered to vote and excited to vote early, whether by mail or in person. And by achieving this goal, Early Vote Action PAC is going to ensure that 2024 is a year of Republican victories.
Early Vote Action PAC is focused on helping Republicans win in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina in 2024. If Republicans can win these states, they will have the necessary 270 electoral votes to take back the White House, the Senate, and a southern governor’s mansion. House seats will be flipped, then state house and state senate seats will be flipped, then local seats will be flipped — in an ode to the Gipper, we will call it “Trickle-Down Organizing.”
Last, Early Vote Action is going to be setting up shop around the country, finding committed, excited Republican activists to help drive turnout in key states so that underutilized Republican voters in deep-red districts and deep-blue districts alike, men and women ignored by leaders and consultants because their districts are impossibly lost or unimaginably safe, can take part in flipping swing states through letter writing, phone banking, and whatever else it takes to get out the vote by Election Day.
It is time for the Republican Party to get back to its organizing roots. It is time to think about nothing other than early Republican mobilization. And it is time to stop losing to the Democrats.
You cannot manage it. It breaks chain of custody, and we already know they ignore signature matching requirements.
Mail in Voting is automatic fraud and you cannot overcome the degree of fraud it will perpetrate by trying to do mail in balloting legally.
The Democrats get made up people on the rolls, they go to nursing homes and get senile or demented people on the rolls. They get dead people and dogs and any other fictional voters they can create.
They use made up addresses, parking lots, businesses and so forth to register fake people, and all their fake people vote by mail in ballot and ballot harvesting.
This stuff is corruption, and you cannot fix it. It is either thrown out, or the Democrats will simply win their rigged elections with their fake voters.
Yes we do. The Democrats cheated like bastards and stole the elections in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, perhaps other states as well.
The 2020 election was fraudulent through and through, and does not at all represent the will of the people.
The Constitution gives the power to determine election law to the state legislatures. They could get rid of cheat-by-mail-in voting, but since they are still infested with RINOs, they allow it in order to defeat America First candidates.
You cannot do anywhere enough legal vote harvesting to compete with the Democrats illegal version of vote harvesting.
Allowing vote harvesting means they will cheat in such a way you will always lose an election. Nothing you can do can compete with their made up people and fake voters.
“Republicans...”
“Get your act together...”
What chance is there for that possibility?
If they could not do it from 2016 to 2020 when they held ALL
the cards, why would anyone expect them to do so now...
Any voting changes that have been suggested here will have to be done at the state level. So the question to everyone is this...what are you doing in your state to make the changes you feel are needed to ensure valid elections??? And if you are working on this issue what and how are you doing it? What can you share that might help others who want to do the same?
I have no problem with mail in voting. Where I have lived that used mail in voting it was a requirement that one included a photo copy of your ID with the ballot. No id enclosed the ballot was not counted...period. I will not support dis-enfranchising voters due to their inability to vote in person. There are a lot reasons why someone cannot vote in person and to suggest “that it’s too bad” they don’t get to vote if they don’t show up in person is wrong in my opinion.
Like every D-Rat run state, the D-Rat Big City Machines run it all. Philly, Chi-Raq, NYC, LA ect . . . The rest of the state’s population is just fodder for the Tax Beast.
Better solution? National Divorce.
No Civil War - Just Civil Separation
Choose Freedom - Choose Peace
You think the money sucking parasites are going to let you go peacefully? They won't. They will invade and kill you if you try to cut them off from the money.
That is exactly what happened in the first Civil War.
Thus showing how truly skilled you are at missing the point.
You can’ beat cheating unless you are willing to cheat yourself. The only answer is to eliminate it. Don’t accept that it is “here to stay”. If you do that then you have already lost.
True, but it’s really about turnout. Numbers have been terrible for republicans. We lost another race in Virginia a few weeks ago. Democrats were excited. Republicans didn’t even talk about it. So the seat went from red to blue. Turn out is our number one problem!
” I will not support dis-enfranchising voters due to their inability to vote in person. There are a lot reasons why someone cannot vote in person and to suggest “that it’s too bad” they don’t get to vote if they don’t show up in person is wrong in my opinion.”
No one is saying that. Mail-in voting is needed for out of country USA citizens and the CERTIFIABLY disabled - no one else. Ballot requests are made by someone who cannot get out of their home and starts a chain of custody for that voter. A copy of a valid ID is returned with the signed, filled in ballot.
If one cannot get to your proper precinct to vote on election day then in-person early voting is available in all states. Make the time.
Sadly. fellow Americans, the Republican party has no real, powerful, Backboned leadership!!! Here we all are going into February, 2023 and the Republican House has done nothing but utter useless words, and not a bit of real action. Both McCarthy & McConnell are total weak sisters,...... kissing the butts of the Democrat low life, who are doing their best to destroy our once great American Nation Republic!!! Game over!!! America is done!!! Am glad I am an over the hill dude!!! I do not want to be in the America that is coming shortly!!! Kindly call me when these GOP losers impeach Joe Biden and rip apart the entire Democrat Party!!!
Spot on! Republicans are kissing progressive (communist) a*s, as are the democrats...
Well once again, I will have to ask you to explain what important point I am missing?
You missed both the time frame (2000) and what I was talking about (demographics). I was pointing out that the popular statement “demographics is destiny” is wrong. And we’ve all watched it be wrong.
I don't think it is wrong, I think it was hijacked by corrupt forces. I think the people actually chose Trump. I think vote rigging chose Biden.
In my world view, the statement is correct, it has just been subverted by fraud.
Get rid of the Romney wench.
It IS wrong. You keep focusing too late. If demographics is destiny, and the demographics said the GOP would have a permanent majority after 2000, then you need to explain 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2018. Here’s the explanation: demographics is NOT destiny.
Here’s the explanation: demographics is NOT destiny.
Disagree. Demographics has been offset by increased lying and with holding of information.
The public can't make accurate decisions if they are fed lies. The media lie system has simply become increasingly more powerful since 1988.
What happened in 2006 was the GOP lost their majority in the mid-terms. Because the reality of our elective system is that the two parties just trade back and forth. Same reason the dems won in 2008. For well over 100 years, with a handful of exceptions, is one party gets the White House for 2 cycles, they lose Congressional seats in the mid-terms, then they trade. Lather, rinse, repeat. There are no permanent majorities, demographics are not destiny, and nothing really changes cause the parties don’t actually stand for anything.
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