RNC to spend $100m to get out vote

The Washington Examiner ^ | 8-28-14 | David M. Drucker

[GeronL]

except in districts where McConnell decides the candidate is a TEA party candidate I expect

[afraidfortherepublic]

As usual, Diana, you’ve got it! I’ll add one more thing — stop calling your long time supporters at 9 AM on a Sunday morning. We’re either in Church, on our way to Church, or sleeping in after a late Saturday night. Sunday calls should be postponed until afternoon.

[GeronL]

They have spent over $100 million on this “campaign”? Doing what? I haven’t seen or heard anything from the GOP that would motivate me to vote for them.

[GeronL]

bump

[Blackirish]

Bounce Harry Reids skinny ass out of there so the house and senate can force Obama to veto popular ideas....

Doom and Gloom around here is cute.

[GeronL]

That is part of the same campaign, isn’t it?

[Redleg Duke]

What are they going to do? Pay the blacks to come out and vote against the conservative candidates?

[Ohioan]

While there is certainly something to be said for a computerized approach to getting out your voters, this over-emphasis on just that phase, at the expense of actually trying to convert people who are not yet your voters, illustrates a major fallacy in thinking.

Tragically, the "Rove era"--if I may be permitted that personalization of the problem--has seen the party largely abandon the idea that we can actually win a debate over policy issues; that we can actually convert Democratic voters, and presently indifferent voters, to a Conservative point of view.

From personal experience in reaching out, I know that this is the mistake that I discuss. For a fraction of what will be spent getting out those already on our side, a major inroad could be made among those who now buy into the media smears of our side.

Here is a "How To" piece that discusses such issues as defunding Obamacare & threatened Government shut downs:

How To Respond To Anti-American Lies In An Election.

If we just get out our present vote, and they turn out the voters bribed by entitlements, we lose again. It doesn't work. Even with less entitlements, Rove virtually skinned his teeth in 2000 & 2004, before losing in 2006. It just doesn't work.

William Flax

[GeronL]

bump

[reefdiver]

There’s millions of us who can’t wait to vote. Things are very scary

[Uncle Miltie]

$100M to turn out Democrats.

Great.

[dfwgator]

You call it “Doom and Gloom” we call it “Realism.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

If it’s like the last one (designed by Bay Area Democrat Techies) they’ve already been sabotaged.

[Timber Rattler]

Orca redux.

[Cowboy Bob]

$100 million can buy a lot of cans of Malt Liquor.

[hal ogen]

If the RNC gave me $100,000,000.00, I MIGHT consider voting for them...then, too...

[hal ogen]

If the RNC gave me $100,000,000.00, I MIGHT consider voting for them...then, too...

[Dave W]

So true....a bunch of bitter sad sacks and whiners, not to mention purists dominate the site it seems. It’s a shame since this site used to have interesting folks with an intellectual curiosity and not to mention fun.

[Major Matt Mason]

Hopefully they didn't have Democrats programming this app like Romney's bunch did in 2012, with the GOTV app that completely crashed on election day.

[silverleaf]

wouldn’t it just be cheaper to offer a free pack of cigarettes and a baloney sammich to 10 million low information voters to vote for “R”?