Posted on 10/31/2010 4:14:25 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
If theres anything that could save Harry Reid from getting ousted by Sharron Angle on Tuesday, it would be his campaigns ability to run a competitive ground game: tight coordination of precinct canvassing, disciplined phone banking, targeted literature distribution, quality control over hundreds of volunteers andabove allclean, up-to-date voter lists.
Based on what I saw yesterday at Democratic Party headquarters in Las Vegas, its not happening for Harry Reid. Here is how Sharron Angle's field campaign works. Their telephones link up to a Republican voter database. Once a phonebanker has made a contact, she punches a number on the keypad to report whether the person has voted already, how they intend to vote, whether it's a wrong number or a hang-up. This updates the database in real time. After you disconnect, the phone autodials a new number.
In one hour at Angle HQ, I made 87 phone calls. If I talked to someone who already voted or who told me to "suck off" (true story!), I pressed a button and they were removed from the bank.
The Reid campaign tracks phonebank results by hand. On paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at theawl.com ...
Well, I didn’t think of it at the time. I had just come in from working on the back deck. A little project on the “Honey-Do” list, and my back was killing me; the sawdust was coming out my ears, and the tall frosty cold ones were calling to me. I was in no mood to play games with a imbecile democrat.
I’ll try and do better next time.
One of my families favorite memories is of our, then, very chatty 9 year old daughter talking with a telemarketer for 10 minutes before he realized who he was talking to. After a few months of putting her on the phone, the calls definitely slowed down. Resist the man!
“Anyways, a small plane flew over the parade several times with a banner that read Anyone Butt Reid. There was no way anyone could miss it.”
Now, I’d have loved to see that! LOL! I wonder, did he? LOL!
That was from the democrat on the panel. Not from Fox News.
Cheech and Chong
D’oh!
Good catch. I don’t know why MP came to mind. It was a long a day.
D’oh!
Good catch. I don’t know why MP came to mind. It was a long a day.
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