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Posted on 11/06/2004 11:44:30 AM PST by Pokey78
I know you like this sort of stuff. Demographics and all that.
All major gains of the Republicans, since '94, have been because of grass roots support. We've been through the "angry white men" to the "values voters" of last Tuesday, but when you remove the rhetoric and read articles like this one, you can see that it all hinges on volunteers making phone calls and knocking on doors.
That is so true. I was one of the volunteer lawyers on the Bush/Cheney team here along the I-4 corridor.
I spend the entire election day helping Bush voters who had problems preventing them from voting. Most were clerical errors in the supervior or elections office which we were able to resolve and the voter was able to cast a ballot for W!
I described it to a friend of mine the other day that the Republicans were playing offense. That enabled us to prevail in a very high scoring game.
Bless your heart and the hearts of all those who worked so hard to bring Florida to the Bush column this year!!
Thank you. I was my pleasure to help my country and my President.
I am a NY lawyer who was in Duval County. The GOP volunteer machine was shock and awe. I was amazed at how diverse the volunteers were. It was so heart warming. The K/E people were so depresed at how good we were and how organized.
I am convinced that for every vote Michael Moore and Soros got for Kerry, they got two for GWB.
This election was personal for me and we, a a team, delivered!
I agree, the GOP was playing offense, for about the first time. I think this is a remarkable change from last election. I live in Gainesville, and I was really impressed by the aggressive, energetic volunteer presence this time around. They were occasionally hampered by people in charge who were part of the old GOP way of doing things - that is, do nothing and hope you win anyway - but I think things are never going to be the same down here.
From my direct experience, the voters who encountered the most intimidation and supression were African-Americans who were voting for Bush.
We made sure they got to cast their ballot.
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I'm sorry, but it is disgusting how brainwashed so many African Americans are with respect to the GOP. I experienced outright hostility from African American voters until they realized I did not come there with a billy club.
Unforutately, I think the GOP really should concentrate its efforts on hispanics and forget about getting a sizable portion of their vote. Its just terrible how deep the poison has infected them.
Whatever the case may be, the GOP is truly the home of the middle class, gun owner, moral, conservative, responsible citizen. The RATS are just a sad bunch of misfits.
We had one woman that I heard about who went to the poll wearing a Bush/Cheney shirt. Ignorant workers told her (after she waited in line for a long time) that she could not vote wearing a shirt promoting a candidate (which is completely wrong--in Florida, voters can wear anything they want).
Unfazed, she took off her shirt and voted in her bra. She said she would vote for "W" naked if she had to!
I live in Land O Lakes - much of the article about the area is right on. My wife and I are in our mid-20s and we just moved to the area two years ago, along with many thousands of others who bought homes up here.
We saw this coming - everything here has changed so much in just the two years we have been here. Republicans swept virtually every position in our county and we are proud to be a small part of it.
Talk about shock and awe--that is awesome!
My native state of SD seems to have put together a great organization to beat Daschle, and I'd like to learn more about just how they did it. Will they follow through and use that as a model for ridding themselves of Herseth in the next eletion and Johnson in the one following, while holding on to the governorship and the legislature? Don't know.
One hopes that the national party has resources for teaching states without good ground organizations how to develop them. It happens all the time out here in red states that Dems win races because they are organized and driven, while the GOP assumes it can put up any putz for office, throw up a few yard signs, and still win. Why they get surprised when the Dems win is beyond me.
Where does one turn for training?
FYI
A very interesting artile on some of the behind the scenes activities that get little public acknowledgement.
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