Posted on 10/14/2006 10:44:19 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- In the battle for control of Congress, Democrats hope enthusiasm trumps Republican efficiency.
Otherwise, they concede, they will have problems on Nov. 7 as a party still struggling to catch up with the GOP's ability to turn voters out of seeming thin air.
"Makes me green with envy," says Ellen Malcolm, the president of EMILY's List, which backs female candidates who support abortion rights. She was speaking of the Republican Party program that relies on reams of polling data, publicly available information and consumer choice records to identify likely GOP voters in even the most Democratic precincts.
Republicans most recently put their prowess on display in California, where they turned out enough conservatives in June to elect Brian Bilbray to the House, and a few months later in Rhode Island, where they motivated moderates and independents to vote for Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a primary.
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I see you are from Ohio. You can just as easily see where I am from.
Wrong. Thats a dem trick. The Republican voters are there. Just quieter than the moonbats. We do our talking where it counts, in the voting booth.
Republicans also show up for work and pay bills and have photo id's etc. without anyone to make sure they do so.
Maybe the Dems need to learn that depending on the non-dependable slacker class is not a good long range plan ?
The GOP county party structures are laughably inefficient. All infighting. Most precinct captains worry far more about being the captain than actually doing any work.
What is different is that in 2002, the GOP started to work GOTV by going around the county structure and has had some success with the 96 hour victory teams for federal and statewide elections. This is good in one way--federal and statewide R's get elected.
But it is very bad in another way. The 96 hours focuses on national and federal elections. Our statehouse representation in CO has collapsed since 2002 with no GOTV for locals. Plus, it has centralized power in the national party and the financiers of the state party to the detriment of conservatives.
I shouldn't be amused but it is a pretty funny way to put it.
I was mocking Democrats, not Republicans. As for the Republican side of the aisle, I have realistic expectations. I'm already disappointed in what the GOP has done with their majority over the past decade (not all that much). Depending on the power of incumbency hasn't helped things. How big a majority do they need, combined with the presidency, before they finally start doing what we all wanted them to do back in 1994? A bigger majority helps, but if their tactics match their strategy and their strategy matches their core beliefs and their core beliefs is in line with the most of the people who post here, they would win where it counts most.
IMHO, the chief benefit to a bigger majority would be that it could strangle the Democrat party into irrelevance, which would help matters, but only so much. It's getting to the point that the party most responsible for what's wrong with our government is the Incumbent Party.
Yep, Rock the Vote was just another attempt to get stupid people to vote (Democrat).
The Republicans have a secret recipe for creating voters from microscopic smidgens that Democrats deride as "thin air" because they simply do not understand the process. Let me enlighten them.
(1) Join one man and one woman in holy matrimony before Almighty God.
(2) Merge one sperm cell from man and one egg cell from female to form fetus.
(3) Incubate fetus in body of female for nine months without committing abortion or infanticide.
(4) Both man and woman rear the resulting child for eighteen years.
Conservatives get all whipped up about what the GOP "hasn't done," without remembering it is precisely the intent of the Constitution to force groups/factions/parties to come back, year after year, to build bigger majorities for a change. Aside from the Civil War, when fully half of the Congress---and virtually all of the opposition---was gone, and the Great Depression, where the mandate for "doing something" was so great and the majorities so large, it really takes about 40 years to get important issues acted upon. The Great Society was still needed by the Dems DESPITE having the FDR blitzkrieg 30 years earlier.
I would say there isn't much in the constitution about political patronage, entitlements, pork barrel spending, gerrymandering, and so-called "campaign finance reform". As for the bicameral legislature issue, that does slow things down a little, but not as much when you have a President in the majority party and not as much when you have extra-constitutional senate rules to contend with.
Read the first four chapters of my book, "A Patriot's History of the United States."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595230017/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_1/104-0426693-1426353?%5Fencoding=UTF8
We cover this in great detail. SLOW change is the way the Founders wanted it. Every mechanism was designed to slow the system down: staggered elections of house/senate, only electing 1/3 of the senate in a given year, filibusters, etc.
I get a real chuckle out of that one.
What the Dems see: Lots of pro-Dem/Lib signs in yards.
What Repubs see: No pro-Dem sign = a conservative afraid to put out a pro-Republican sign because a Brown-shirt,radical Lib will vandalize it.
All is NOT as it appears.
No kidding. I've NEVER been contacted by republicans trying to get me to go vote.
Then again, maybe they've figured out they don't need to get me out - that I can find my way to the voter's booth on my own - and put the effort elsewhere!
Not the first lowering expectations article from the presstitutes of recent. Good sign. May the circle jerkers at DU rue November 8th in a big way.....
Don't forget - at least half of Dem voters are too stupid to figure out what R & D mean...which suggests we get 25% of their paid voters.
Of course, in some states, the dems rely on the dead - VERY reliable, the dead are. They vote just like you want them, and in any required numbers!
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