“Levin said it’s the church groups, Tea Party activists, and others who are doing the hard work of getting people out to vote on election day.”
That is so true! The RNC did not want Tom Coburn to win in OK, and they were upset when he won the primary. They did almost nothing to help him in the general election.
My daughter volunteered almost full time on Coburn’s campaign, and the people who showed up to do all the work were local conservatives, including many homeschooling families.
During the last week of the campaign, when it looked like Coburn was going to win easily, all of a sudden staffers who worked for Republican politicians in other states showed up and tried to take over. They were rude, pushy, and treated the homeschool teens who were doing the real work like slaves. When someone ordered pizza for the kids, the out of state losers tried to tell the teens they weren’t allowed to eat until they had made all their calls. My daughter, a redhead who doesn’t take crap, stepped in and told them to butt out and leave the kids alone.
At the Coburn victory party, the division in the Republican Party was evident. There were lots of old guys in rumpled suits, drinking booze, and speaking only to each other, and then there was the large, happy crowd of grass roots ordinary conservatives who were celebrating the victory and the election of a man they hoped would be a true conservative voice for Oklahoma.
Yes, Coburn has been a disappointment at times, but he is better than the candidate that the Republican establishment had chosen.
So, is Coburn working well for the conservative grass roots voters who put him in office?
Or is he sucking up to ‘Republican Senators Central’ for orders on how to vote?