[lbo-talk] the political wing of the organized working class

[Michael Hoover]

>>> dhenwood at panix.com 04/20/06 10:28 AM >>>
[So the Reps had actual grassroots volunteers and the unions and the 
party of the people had paid operatives...]
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>
House of Labor:
In a briefing with political reporters held Wednesday by the AFL-CIO, 
AFSCME's Gerald McEntee praised the "neighbor-to-neighbor" voter 
mobilization program that the GOP ran in 2004 and contrasted it with 
the "stranger-to-stranger" program run by Democratic allies.
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above is old news - or should be - and it is not entirely accurate...

reps did have better 'ground' strategy in that they built localized 
mobilization efforts, using people familiar with areas that they 
worked in and directing efforts from within rep party...

dem strategy was to rely upon 'affiliated' orgs who paid folks and
shipped them to ostensible 'battleground' places...

    
historical evidence indicates that former approach is more successful
than latter, ironically, unions had 'gone local' with some success in
'98 
when dems picked up a few seats in the house...

still, reps sent a bunch of paid operatives to a number of 'hot' areas
in 
final weeks and days of 2004 campaign, used to complement and 
supplement what was going on, probably played important role, biggest
difference is that these 'outsiders' were not *face*of rep effort...  
mh

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