Posted on 09/04/2014 8:36:53 AM PDT by Incorrigible
"What about your gaffes?" Campaign trackers make sure candidates can't escape slipups.
By Emma Roller
Kelli Farr remembers running through a cornfield after getting yelled at by a crowd of Sarah Palin fans.
It was 2008, and Farr was working as a campaign tracker—someone employed by an opposing political party to follow a candidate on the campaign trail, documenting his or her every move, in hopes of capturing a slipup...
...Farr is now the vice president and director of tracking at American Bridge, a Democratic organization that is sisters with Media Matters and Correct the Record, two organizations that are at constant war with Fox News and conservative media at large...
American Bridge employs 43 trackers to cover 39 states. Since 2012, the organization has tripled the number of events its trackers cover. In 2012, Bridge's 20 trackers recorded 3,000 events in 33 states. In 2014, they have tracked more than 9,000 events and traveled a cumulative 693,000 miles.
...On the Republican side is America Rising, a super PAC formed in 2013 by Matt Rhoades, who served as Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign manager, along with other veteran Republican operatives...
...America Rising employs 27 full-time trackers in 24 states, as well as a "few dozen" part-time trackers to cover miscellaneous events, or in congressional districts where the candidate doesn't do enough events to justify having a full-time tracker.
...While the two groups may look like mirror images of each other—a political "Spy vs. Spy"—the Democratic organization is much more well-heeled than its Republican counterpart...
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Remember this loser, who stuck a camera in Todd and Sarah Palin's faces?
Sarah and Todd Palin at Valdez airport, Alaska, August 17, 2010 - Todd Palin is a bully!
Naturally the dems spend more money. They have the SRM to support their phoney racist lies.
Sadly, this doesn't surprise me at all.....
Republicans tend to ride the shortbus when it comes to innovating ways to win elections. Rove got close enough in 2004, but I believe the operation was allowed to fall apart(along with everything else) after Bush won his 2nd term. The dems have been killing them ever since, except for 2010 when the dems running the show was such a disaster, the rebuke from the electorate created a wave that no political operation could repel.
macaca journalism.....
Fellatist filming.
Now this is rather funny to me. Back in 2012 when my Congressman Joe Walsh was running, there sat one of these little twerps, asking silly questions and scribbling in her notebook. Some around me treated her as a curious young lady, I knew what she was up to and challenged every stupid question she posed.
Everytime this issue comes up it should be pointed out that on December 12, 2008 Sarah Palin’s church was burned around the entire perimeter with women and children inside.
Opponents of Palin attempted a Rwanda style killing of people in Palin’s church barely one month after she and McCain lost the Presidential election.
It is despicable. Yet no one knows about it. It was hardly condemned. It is time to become more confrontational and specific about the hate that comes from the Left against average Americans.
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