Glenn Greenwald’s Mitt Romney Surrogacy

[joshcryer]

145. GOTV is the least costly thing you can do.

I single helped keep Colorado blue in 2010 by single handedly getting out around 10% of the vote we won by. This was when other states went red and we lost a lot of Democrats. Oh, we also prevented a massive military base expansion here (Pinion Canyon). BTW, do you know how much it cost me to get people to vote? Zero dollars. Nada. I did it all on fucking foot.

There's nothing wrong about my factual observation that WI Dem's didn't GOTV as the GOPers did. 450k less votes is not a joking matter. I said before the vote happened that GOTV was paramount, and I did say that the outside money had an effect. But as I said before, GOTV is the least costly thing you can do. The turnout there was horrific. I blame the ground game for that one, not money. You don't win elections with advertising, you win them with numbers.

I think there is a demoralizing effect from people saying "it doesn't matter" or "our guy is bad." The evidence is clear purely in the numbers when people don't fucking go to the polls when they're needed.