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Gman

(24,780 posts)
5. TM has no bearing on my views
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 02:04 PM
Dec 2014

I just agree with their assessment. My view and opinion is the same as it has been now for many years.

I think the biggest lesson can be learned from the Abott campaign. They beat the Democrats at their own grassroots game. They were doing voter registration with a purpose. Each registrar was paid and had a goal of so many valid registrations per week. If they didn't meet the goal they were let go. They ran it to get results and not a jobs program. They did other things textbook.

The end result was that just like the Obama campaign in 12 scoffed at the notion that Romney was winning, the Abbot campaign scoffed at any notion that Davis was close because they knew because they did everything right, just like the Obsma campaign.

A lot of money was put into tx for Davis. Then Tx has the lowest turnout in the country. Voters were apathetic, but all that money was squandered because they failed to motivate Democratic voters.

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