Reply #120: of IL-06. Beyond winners and losers (The low turn out issue)

[IndianaGreen]

Thursday March 23, 2006

Cluster&%$

Let me make clear what I think happened in the 6th if the below post on the reduction in Democratic voters doesn't make it clear.

Three candidates--all people I think are nice people ran in three different ways. One spent $700,000. One tried to bring in new Democrats. One essentially organized for 3 years.

The grand total of that effort? 4,000 fewer votes in the primary than 2 years ago. Not only did they not make the pie larger, the divided it up between themselves and subtracted 4,000 people.

That takes some talent on all their parts.

Everyone complaining about the other camps needs to drop it now and figure out how they screwed up themselves and there are plenty of things to point towards that were problematic. I can start going through them one after another for days on end, and trust me, no campaign would be happy by the time I'm done.

With SEIU and other unions backing her, Tammy couldn't get out any more voters than in the past even with all the resources she could need. If you can't use the money to get people to the polls, there isn't going to be much of a contest in November.

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