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Thanks. But I hope deb doesn't feel I'm putting her on a spot because she didn't come. I'm not lashing out or even criticizing: I'm sure she pulls her share of work. I'm just saying that there are *lots* of people who are conservatives who don't *like* the idea of coming to these rallies, and in a city without a local conservative talk radio hero, it's hard to reach our target audience of people who *will* come. Obviously, I appreciate the input, and I'd say I'm actually only sad that so far no one's suggested something that we didn't actually try to do this time. It's frustrating.

E.g., it sounds so easy to say "build a coalition with the college Republicans" -- but the area ones are more than a little disorganized and don't turn out in numbers for their own activist stuff. They tend to "meet" a lot, but we've never had so many college Republicans as we did at this one and you best believe I hunted out every one of their email names!