[Owen]

I welcome better estimates.

[MegaSilver]

BUMP

[ClintonBeGone]

With all the unions having access to the upper echelons of GM, Ford and Chrysler, how would you account for the vans they could and would procure from their employers?

[Bluntpoint]

Dude! You are wasting your time. The dems pick most of their voters up in these:

[Triple Word Score]

Umm....

It feels ethically slippery but then I realize that it's a sneaky way to block the opposition from being ethically slippery.

However, I bet they already have their vans reserved anyway.....

[Dan from Michigan]

If you have a bunch of spare cars and stunt drivers, a few staged intentional (on both sides - so no one gets hurt) 'car wrecks' on main streets all over Detroit, Southfield, Ann Arbor, and Flint.

[WOSG]

Get-out-the-vote, GOTV, is not about stopping the other side, it is about getting OUR SIDE to vote, and overwhelming the other side with better turnout. Frankly, the idea of renting vans to stop the other side sounds quite silly. People have private cars that they will use in a pinch and I've never heard of vans being the constraint on getting folks to the polls. Money wasted on that effort could be better spent simply with reminder calls to our voters.

GOTV starts with IDENTIFYING your voters. Then REGISTERING them. Then getting them to VOTE:

1. Identify Conservatives, pro-Bush people in your area.
2. If they are not registered, GET THEM REGISTERED TO VOTE.
3. In October and November, GET THEM TO THE POLLS.

What can you do now? Start a local club or join a local club of activists. Join a local republican club. Help a republican campaign. WALK YOUR PRECINCT with mail drops etc.
You can do MOST by simply going around the neighborhood and talking up the positives of Republicans from Bush on down, noting who supports, and getting that into a databse that can be used later to get voters reminded to win.
You can and should be able to get voter lists. In Texas, they show who voted in what primary, so you can tell who are the 'base' voters and who are the 'swing' voters.

You want to get your base and swing voters identified as "pro-Bush" and "pro-Republican" and then you want to make sure they are motivated to vote and actually go out and vote.

Personal contact is the best way. Next best is by phone. Next best is by mail, or if you can an email database. Lastly, the use of ads.

Finally the best way to supress the other side's turnout is to engage in NEGATIVE campaigning against the other side, making them care less about getting their guy elected. Apathy will do the rest for you. To see how this is done, just look at what the Democrats are doing against our great President this past 9 months.

[TheSpottedOwl]

What a creative idea!

[Axenolith]

It would probably be cheaper to pass out liquor to the homeless. They would a) go to sleep earlier b) be all obnoxiously drunk at the polling places which will tend to be heavily 'Rat and thus depress turnout and lower 'Rat throughput...

Of course, the good guys don't do this type of stuff ;)...

[tort_feasor]

It is my understanding that the Black churches have there insurance paid on their church vans by democratic groups for the entire year to insure that they are available on election day. I read an article about this .

[raloxk]

actually this is pretty good. Rent vans, say youre going to return them intime for election day and jsut return them one day late. hmm