How Chafee Won
Reflecting on Sen. Lincoln Chafee's (R-RI) primary victory yesterday, The Hotline says the race shows how the Republican political machine can gear up to win elections.
"Behind the curtain, Chafee’s campaign spent $500,000 to squeeze out every conceivable voter from neighborhoods across the state. They searched for independents who voted Democrat in municipal elections but who had once upon a time voted for a Republican for president or governor or senator. There were a few of those. They looked for non-affiliated voters in Republican neighborhoods. Using microtargeting techniques, they even tried to figure out which committed Democrats might be tempted to vote for Chafee."
"By the end of the summer, Chafee’s campaign had identified 42,000 potential supporters. Then the second part of the program kicked in. Message, here, is a verb. The campaign 'messaged' these voters, often individually. Chafee himself called more than 100 of them who were identified as being capable of swinging the votes of colleagues and friends. The standard complement of robocalls, mailings and personal visits were employed. In the twelve days of September, Chafee, the RNC and NRSC made more than 198,000 phone calls to the voters on their list. Many voters received one every two days."
--- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Colin Brace quoted
> Tony Judt:
> >
> > > Thus Paul Berman,
>
>
>
>
> Back in the 80s, that little fucker was an apologist
> for the contras,
> > and has always done PR for Israel. The only
> recycling involved was
> > stuffing the same old crap into some new bottles.
> >
> > Doug
> > ___________________________________
>
>
> Poor Citizen Berman.
>
> Paul was always a model of a kind of cynicism that
> plays off of "radical"
> credentials (and a passable knowledge of left
> history) to promote himself.
> He uses the autobiographical accident that he was at
> Columbia in 1968, and a
> member of SDS, to develop a grand world view about
> left romanticism of
> violence. His writing product is slick but meagre
> and neither interesting
> nor original, and yet somehow he has been amply
> rewarded with Macarthur
> "genius" grant, along with other awards. Except
> that he was on the
> editorial board of "Dissent" I have never understood
> what of genius he ever
> produced. Still he would make a good character in a
> novel, if only the left
> had a Saul Bellow, to write a version of Humboldt's
> Gift.... Nervous,
> shaky, edgy, hopping, bobbing, weaving, a hidden
> sense of paranoia, a
> directionless intellectuality, a patina of the old
> "Partisan Review" style,
> used to hide his contentless insults against the
> likes of Chomsky, Zinn,
> Elsberg, etc. He once told me that he is a great
> admirer of Max
> Schachtman. No surprise there.
>
> Jerry
> > ___________________________________
>
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