[Patton@Bastogne]

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President George W. Bush was re-elected in ’04 with a vote total 22 percent larger than in 2000, in part because the GOP harnessed the power of volunteers to get out the vote block by block in key states.


I disagree with the writer's premise, "completely".

The modern slick political-consultancy-class (Karl Rove, ad nauseum) believe that Twitter Hash Tags win elections in 2014.

They are complete idiots.

What's "always" won elections ... at EVERY level ... city, state and federal.

Residential neighborhood yard signs.

Residential neighborhood "conversations" up and down the street, block by block.

Neighbor to neighbor.



The GOP-E stopped seeing that kind of "citizen grass roots" enthusiasm when they first nominated Juan McCain in 2008 ...

because it was "his turn" ...

and then with Mitt "Willard" Romney in 2012.



I have personally campaigned, walked neighborhoods, distributed yard signs, worked phone banks since 1992 (Bush vs. Clinton).

NOT with Romney, especially after what he (and Da' Bushes) did to Newt Gingrich.



Things will stay that way, too ... for a MAJORITY of "former" GOP political foot-soldier infantry ...

until John Boehner, Mitch "I'll destroy the Tea Party" McConnell, Thad Cochran, and Karl Rove ...

are LONG GONE.



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[itsahoot]

The GOP-E stopped seeing that kind of "citizen grass roots" enthusiasm when they first nominated Juan McCain in 2008 ...

You forget Bob Dole?