good point
Yes, it is.
This is why many FReepers believed there must have been fraud in cases where there was not. For example, I recall seeing team after team of Democrats working on GOTV, but not a single GOP one, in a largely Republican precinct...should it have been any shock that the vote counts didn't match the R:D ratio?
What it's always meant. They're part of The Ruling Class and they don't like their minions telling them how things are going to be.
By and large informed voters don’t need to be told to vote. When you pressure people to vote they usually pad the tally for the wrong candidate. A low key remier is all the conservatives need I think.
This year, I’ve participated in phone banks, and I’ve given to individual candidates in tough races. I refuse to give one thin dime to the incompetent RNC. I don’t want my hard earned dollars going to Michael Steele’s Luau Stripper Fund.
Wasn’t the 10-2-10 rally a good measure of this year’s DNC get out the vote effectiveness?
Except for the McLame RINO campaign, I have seen little to indicate that the RINO’s running the withering branch of the GOP are doing much beside wetting their pants in fear that the old boy system in Washington is about to get an enema.
The good news is that America is basically conservative, angry and energized without them. I have never seen so many responses to online polls. That really needs to be measured as it tells us if people are starting to pay attention and hold opinions.
Perhaps this is one institution that will be terminated at the end of it’s useful life cycle rather than, like the March of Dimes, start a whole new life cycle to bilk the trusting.
Democrat version of GOTV...............
When I was in Reno recently and picked up the local newspaper - I read on a distant page in small print about how the dems have registered 10,000 Hispanics (who cares if they are illegal or legal) - enough votes to manipulate the election for the Reid’s.
If the republicans don’t have a strategy to counteract fraudulent voting, we are going to be stuck with these filthy hacks.
Here’s the real issue. Unlike the Democrats, where the Party and the Liberal Movement are in essence one entity (with various auxiliaries, such as Lib interest groups, unions, etc), the GOP and Conservative Movement (especially with the TEA Party) are pretty distinct.
While people are ticked off at the Dems, all the polls show that they’re just as pissed off at the GOP. It’s the TEA Party that’s surging, and the TEA Party that’s going to really drive voter turnout this cycle - and do it for candidates on an individual level.
Extrapolating all the comments around here over the last few years about hanging up on GOP fundraising calls, sending back GOP mailings, etc, out to those inclined to vote for Republican candidates, I’d guess the Republican Party has concluded that a GOP-focused GOTV effort may actually be detrimental to Republicans winning.
The RNC is too busy fretting and fighting the tidal wave of Tea Party candidates to worry about actually winning elections against democrats.
This has long been one of my greatest concerns about the RNC. Their elitist disdain for the hoi poloi makes them incapable of seeing the value of boots-on-the-ground organizing. Thank God for AFP and its grassroots efforts. ALG made feints at grassroots organizing for a while, but with a contentious national political director who forgot that the enemy is on the other side of the ball and not in your own backfield, it became impossible.
In close elections, it’s all about turn-out. The late Paul Weyrich (Free Congress Foundation) perfected the method for voter ID and turnout decades ago. Someone needs to bring it into the computer age and put it to work. Perhaps AFP will.
It has made another strategic mistake in my state. It is suspending poll watching. Instead they want the poll watchers making calls. The rats are free to make mischief.
After Christine having suggeted she is running against "Her own party," while debating the "Bearded Marxist" in DE (and I can't remember where I heard it) it was reported that she was not exagerating...
....In what was described as a "Chicken and Egg" scenario in which Christine was hoping for support from the RSCC to boost her chances....WHILE THE MORON, RINO, A-HOLES..are withholding same...until (YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS SHEET UP) her poll numbers go UP!
RNC clueless on...... could be a fill in the blank question. It’s local conservative groups doing the work in this election.
You could have stopped right there.
Don’t attribute party loyalty to members of the ruling class. Republican elitists are interested ONLY in the preservation of their own little power bases. On a state or national level, the American people...you know, the “great unwashed”, can go to hell! Neither their interests nor those of the nation matter in the slightest.