[ambrose]

I know you like this sort of stuff. Demographics and all that.

[WoodstockCat]

I really liked this article. A suprisingly even-handed rundown of the strenghts of Bush's GOTV effort from the NY Slimes.

[PaulJ]

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.

[ConservativeLawyer]

we spent our time worrying about how to get out our vote."

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.

[Agrarian]

I live in a conservative state out west, and we got thumped at the polls this election, losing control of both houses of legislature and the governorship. The Dem GOTV machine was awesom in our area, while ours was really inadequate to the task. Complacency.

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?

[Pokey78]

[jwalsh07]

"You've never seen anything like it," said Mr. Bunting, a former New York City bar owner and the Pasco Republican Party chairman, still pulsing with adrenaline on Friday. "People working 11 or 12 hours a day, making hundreds of phone calls for the president. Retirees, young home-schooling moms, college kids, a guy in a wheelchair, all saying, 'I'll do anything to help.' "

The republican party is now the party of the "people". In fact, its members are the same folk who were the heart and soul of the dem party in the WW2 generation.

The dems are left with a collection of special interests, the assorted marxists and those down on their luck and susceptible to the drama queens on the nightly news.

[NonValueAdded]

The Democrats dispatched 3,000 volunteer lawyers from around the country who manned the polls, especially in South Florida, the Democratic stronghold, to guard against any efforts by the Republicans to disenfranchise voters.

They believed their own nonsense and that's what did them in!

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to those nameless volunteers who gave countless hours in support of their convictions.

[MinuteGal]

The President's rally in New Port Richey really pumped the Pasco county people up. They were in a tizzy for days.

I saw a lot of my neighbors at the rally, neighbors who in the past had taken Dem ballots in the primaries. They were in a tizzy, too.

Man, GW took Pasco like Grant took Richmond. What brilliant strategery the Bush campaign employed in Florida this time around.

Leni