Posted on 11/06/2006 8:36:22 AM PST by Coop
HELENA - Republican Sen. Conrad Burns may be facing the political fight of his life, but calm GOP operatives believe they have a secret weapon that will push him over the top in Tuesday's vote.
For the first time, Republicans in Montana are putting into place the national party's vaunted 72-Hour Task Force for the final three days of the campaign, state GOP executive director Chuck Denowh said.
It may be the party's ace in the hole.
The highly sophisticated targeting, voter identification and get-out-the-vote program, or GOTV, was developed in the wake of the extremely tight 2000 presidential race. Its architects were Karl Rove, President Bush's top political strategist, and Ken Mehlman, now Republican National Committee chairman.
National party officials believe the program, which emphasizes the final three days before an election, can give Republican candidates a two or three percentage point advantage in tight races.
It's a highly intensive, volunteer-driven effort to identify Republican and potential Republican voters through techniques such as micro-targeting used by businesses and introduced into politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at conradburns.com ...
Huh?
“I hope that someday your children and grandchildren will tell of the time that a certain president came to town at the end of a long journey and asked their parents and grandparents to join him in setting America on the course to the new millennium—and that a century of peace, prosperity, opportunity, and hope followed. So, if I could ask you just one last time: Tomorrow, when mountains greet the dawn, would you go out there and win one for the Gipper?” —Ronald Reagan, November 7, 1988
He's joking; it's a Simpsons reference.
Ex-x-x-xcellent!!
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