Oh, and logistics is more than just GOTV - effective communications requires a fair amount of work as well - and that starts with the candidate being prepared on a daily basis to face voters and the press. It appears Angle was not serious about such.
That can be the problem with echo-chamber activists like yourself running around bitching about articles like this - at the end of the day Tea Party activists have to realize it takes a lot more than just good ideas and energy to win elections.
No. I actually know how it works in the real world, having walked in the shoes of practically everyone that was involved in that campaign, one way or another, both on the grassroots side, and the "professional" side.
Chances are, those "spontaneous activists who were frustrated by the lack of response from the Angle campaign" were the complainers who were always waiting around for the campaign to do something for them, because they didn't have the vision or the drive to do it themselves.