You don’t need an organization in all 50 states. You need to think about this a bit more cleverly than that.
For example, you’re never going to take NY, NJ, MA, CA, WA, OR, HI, RI, CT, etc. Don’t even bother with those states at first.
If you want to attract the attention of the GOP and make them come to the table, then you need only create a party to give them competition in states where they’ve taken people for granted. Wyoming is a great example - no one even wonders whether or not WY will go GOP - it is just assumed, no matter what.
Well, what happens when they can’t count on those three electoral votes? Or the EV’s from other “dependable” GOP states? Suddenly, their presidential aspirations go up in smoke. They have to deal.
People need to start thinking more creatively about how to make these people come to heel.
I don’t think we have that much time... I’m betting the bubble is about to burst and all hell is just around the corner now.
In Michigan, the tea partiers showed up at the state convention and formed a conservative coalition and removed our entrenched RINO former state chair and national committeeman, Saul Anuzis.
They negotiated an acceptable compromise among tea party, Pualists, and GOP conservatives. They replaced Anuzis on the national committee with Dave Agema, an established conservative GOP legislator. Agema isn’t perfect but he is a truly vast improvement over Anuzis.
That’s already been tried - the idea of running third party-candidates that have no chance of winning in their own right, but who will serve to snatch up electoral college members, and tie the Electoral College, allowing the third party to act as kingmaker and make demands on one of the two major parties.
The progressives tried it in 1924, with La Follette’s Progressive Party. It failed.
In 1948, the Dixiecrats tried it. Failed again.
In 1960, another effort was made, this time with the infamous “unpledged” elector slates. It was a flop.
And finally, in 1968, the Independent party made another push to tie the Electoral College. It didn’t go anywhere.