[daylilly]

“Sorry, but, so? It’s called excellent campaign strategy and organization. “

Is that what you call it? Strategy and organization? They called it something different when John Kennedy did that in West Virginia. I don’t think of it as excellent anything. Shenanigans. Illicit. Offensive to me, morally speaking.

I guess to each his own.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Well, you both act as if Romney is the only one using those techniques. Well he is not the only one. Unlike you, apparently, I knew that and with just a quick search found the below. I am sure there is evidence of all the candidates employing similar strategies if anyone cared to look. Sometimes it just works out better for one rather than the other.

The question was who would come in second, and at 5:30 the signs did not look good for Huckabee. Both of his nearest competitors, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, had purchased more of the $35 straw poll tickets that allow people to vote, rented better tents and acquired more buses. Brownback's staff claimed to have handed out more than 3,000 tickets and hired 51 buses. They even brought in a Christian metal band called Nailpoint Payment to play for supporters. Tancredo gave away about 2,400 tickets, used 20 buses and paid for an aggressive talk radio advertising campaign, according to his staff.