All politics is turnout — and enthusiasm is key

Washingon Examiner ^ | June 16, 2009 | Michael Barone

[gusopol3]

Many psephologists — derived from the word for pebbles, which the ancient Greeks used as ballots — study who wins and loses elections. Lately I’ve been looking more closely at turnout. For we live, though most psephologists haven’t stopped to notice it lately, in a decade of vastly increased voter turnout...

Going into the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s strategists recognized that their chances of winning hitherto dependably Republican states hinged on enlarging the electorate. They did that, brilliantly, in Indiana and Virginia, New Mexico and Nevada, and most spectacularly in North Carolina, where turnout rose 20 percent, more than in any other state, and Obama won by 1 percent.

[gusopol3]

Michael Barone, where is there one mention of BO's huge money advantage and subsequent political advertising advantage in your analysis? I McCain -Feingold , which was directed at destroying Republican fund-raising advantage, was deemed so important to the political process by the media, where is at least the concept that BO's big bucks turned out a huge wave of new support, just like any advertising campaign drives crowds into the stores. The fact that this much money and a spending advantage over his rival (gained by gaming the system; remember BO's pledge to accept public financing, reneged only at the last possible minute) that dwarfed any that any previous candidate had had, gained him only 53-46%, makes BO far less the political colossus that everyone pretends he is.

[gusopol3]

The other factor in the trend 2006-2008 was Bush hatred; so, if the two pillars of Democrat enthusiasm for ‘10 and ‘12 ain’t gonna be there (money overload and Bush hatred), and the negatives begin to pile up for BO, as they are, then Republicans have a reason for a lot more than “mild optiimism.”

[mosesdapoet]

Getting turnout and how to get it as well as a number of other suggestions for conservatives campaigning for office can be found in
http://www.theusmat.com/home.htm also updated quips and quotes which conservativea are welcome to are in
http://www.theusmat.com/

[gusopol3]

thanks, perused it, will return to it.

[glide625]

And the most important factor was ignored altogether; voter fraud in myriad forms from registration of illegal aliens, criminals and other ineligible voters to the use of i.d. theft to facilitate double and triple voting.

Huh, and you aint’ seen nothing yet! It’ll be most curious to see what the Dems pull off in 2010.

[newfreep]

And the most important factor was ignored altogether; voter fraud in myriad forms from registration of illegal aliens, criminals and other ineligible voters to the use of i.d. theft to facilitate double and triple voting.

Agree 1,000% - America is gone unless we actually take it back from the communists....and don't bring a knife to the gunfight!