Philip Bump
Posted on 05/03/2013 8:01:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There will almost certainly be an aspect of the National Rifle Association's convention — which opens today in Houston — that feels like a victory celebration. By organizing and agitating its members, the organization was able to kill a Senate compromise on background checks, steamrolling over an ineffectual Organizing For Action. But as discussion of reviving that deal heats up, the NRA may finally face a real roadblock: public opinion.
Prior to the April 17th vote — which failed to end a Republican-led filibuster on a bipartisan compromise to expand background checks — there were certainly coordinated organizing efforts. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Michael Bloomberg's group, launched a series of ads targeting wavering senators. (The group will also be outside the NRA convention today with survivors of gun violence.) The general expectation was that such efforts would be complemented by the sort of grass-roots push for which the Obama campaign — and, by extension, the evolutionary Organizing For Action — was known.
That didn't happen. Politico has an underwhelming review of OFA's efforts leading up to the vote, the sort of key priority of the president's that the group was designed to push. In short, OFA was a non-factor.
Built on the neighbor-to-neighbor model that helped win two presidential campaigns, OFA at first consisted of professional staff based in Chicago and Washington directing volunteers while retaining control over the message, outreach and Obama’s vaunted e-mail list. But the limits of the all-volunteer army quickly became apparent: even ardent Obama fans couldn’t make a strong push for him on the off-time from their regular jobs, and they didn’t have the resources to mount the kind of field or messaging operation that made the 2012 such a juggernaut....
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Regarding public opinion:
It is not a delusion. Why?
Answer: Because **every** government school day children are being INDOCTRINATED to fear and hate guns and to fear and hate gun owners. They are punished severely for any mention or reference to guns. Even chewing a sandwich into an “L” shape that, at least one government school indoctrinator, perceived to be a gun, is dealt with swiftly.
Public opinion? Just wait! in less than 5 to 10 years these government indoctrinated children will be voting.
In one or two more generations of government K-12 indoctrination and the NRA will be have no influence whatsoever.
Answer:
...Because the Marxists are hard a work trying to make every government school child in this nation terrified of guns and gun owners.
...Because there is a government school war against boys. They are drugged and badgered into meek submission by armies of feminazi teachers who could easily play the part of Nurse Ratched. We are already seeing a nation of Peter Pans living in their moms’ basements who are utterly incapable of defending themselves, their families, and our nation.
..Because the indoctrination against guns ( cloaked in the mantle of “anti-bullying”) has been going on for years and very soon these children will be filling our nation's poling booths.
4% of Americans think guns/gun control are an important topic
SO afraid.
And....100% of our nation's government indoctrinated children are being taught to fear guns and hate and fear gun owners. Their brains are being scrambled by the feminazi and homonazi anti-bullying campaigns.
Yuri Bezmenov called it “demoralization”. These are our nation's future voters. The NRA will lose this unless they change their strategy.
They have been doing that for fifty years and look how it’s been working for them.
I would say it is working well for them. Obama ( likely not a natural born citizen) won at least one election and stole another.
I doubt there will ever be an honest national election again in this nation. There will be a permanent rotation of Democrat Presidents.
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Philip Bump
My original post here paints the opposite picture.
“4.5 million people. A quarter-million more than the population of Phoenix.
Actually, that official membership number is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more additional millions (perhaps tens of millions) of people who agree with the NRA's goals and objectives without formally being members of the NRA.
Did you expect him to be a Tea Party activist or a fellow at the Heritage Foundation? LOL
Yep, I R one-o-thems meself.
Kept it pithy for the yahoos who read Yahoo.
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