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.
I tend to agree that mail-in voting is here to stay, so we’d better figure out how to manage it.
And then, there was that time when it was “Time to Get Their Act Together” two election cycles ago.
Once they do get their act down on this, one method of cheating handled, 999 more to go!
Problem is that the USPS will ensure that R ballots don’t reach their destination.
“voting harder” achieves nothing when the elections are simply decided by fraud.
They used to be good at it. In the 90s when AZ mail-in was single election opt in the GOP’s ground game on getting people to opt in was considered a big advantage.
Demographics is Destiny.
Restore the Hawaiian monarchy. Eliminate 2 blue senate seats.
No it isn’t. Demographics aren’t nearly as lockstep as people like to think. There was a lot of talk after the 2000 election that the demographics had changed to favor the GOP and they would have a “permanent majority”, we know how that turned out.
Should have been in the vote harvesting game 4 years ago, too
Don’t let the dems be the only ones in the game
Turn Off The Money Spigot
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.
if you Defund The Left, the you’ll have a chance-
Why live under a ruling gang that hate you? Cuomo and Hochul both said it. Whitmer refers to it. Newsome means it every day.
Better solution? National Divorce.
No Civil War - Just Civil Separation
Choose Freedom - Choose Peace
....hmmm, instead of addressing and combating the cheating, we should be more crooked than the CommieDemRats?? ...ahhh, okay next brilliant idea... ymmv
What good is “early” voting???
Seems to me that they tally up ALL votes from Republican districts… and THEN see how many Democrat votes they need to JUSSSST slip ahead and the very end…
It’s those in charge of the voting system, NOT the voters.
The trends are favoring the republicans. African american women went from 98.9% D all the way down to 98.89% D
Manage it? No problem - the Ds have shown us the way and mail-in voting is the key. Have printed and filled out for every adult of voting age in the targeted district. These ballots are ready to submit after the (semi-)final ballot counts are published. All the ballots are dumped at 6:59pm assuming a 7pm poll closing. Don’t worry about signatures as there is no chain of custody that proves if a ballot is legitimate or not. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent ballots and ignore the screams from the left. Since the law says that winners must be declared within a few days, when the R is declared the winner, begin destroying the ballots. With no ballots to re-count and no chain of custody for yet un-destroyed ballots to dispute, the declared winner stands.
Ranked Choice Voting is the next target. It can be manipulated with the proper rules and procedures in place. Select the proper candidates for each race including ‘Judas goats’ candidates in opposition races will produce the needed results.
Time to get your act together on early And end Mail-In Voting or they will never be an honest election.
The 2020 and midterm elections proved it look how close the congers votes went.
How many more Joe Biden’s and Harris can you take.
I don’t to live in the camps
The reason people have had single-day, you-gotta-show-up-to-vote voting is BECAUSE mail-in voting just begs for massive fraud.
Which happened, demonstrably, in the last three election cycles at least.
It's pretty discouraging to hear presumed GOP or conservative people pushing for more mail-in voting and other clown-scenario, obviously crazy, stupid and suicidal ideas like ballot harvesting.
We need to be pushing in-person, one-day, two pieces of verifiable ID, voting. With paper ballots, counted and reported by four hours maximum from the time the polls close. Anything else is not certified.
Plus, have a strong VP who will not certify unless these strict rules are adhered to. No linguini-spines like Mike Pence.
This would stop Rat fraud voting in its tracks.
Why is this so hard to grasp for our side? Hmmm.
Probably Rat infiltration on our side.
If you don’t play by the same rules that have been set, you’ll lose every time
Only by winning, can you get to be the ones making or changing the rules
I tend to agree that mail-in voting is here to stay, so we’d better figure out how to manage it.
I tend to agree that mail-in voting is here to stay, so we’d better figure out how to cheat better than they do.
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