Karl Rove: Barack's Brilliant Ground Game

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 10, 2008 | Karl Rove

[Puzzleman]

For a campaign that says it wants to end the politics of the Bush-Cheney years, the Obama for President effort has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks of 2000 and 2004.

For starters, Barack Obama's manager admitted to the New York Times that he wanted an "army of persuasion" modeled explicitly on the massive Bush neighbor-to-neighbor "Victory Committee" of '00 and '04. Those efforts deployed millions of volunteers to register, persuade and get-out-the-vote.,,

[Puzzleman]

Always good to hear from Karl Rove.

[goldstategop]

Obama, meet Barack W. Bush!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[padre35]

This points to one of Mad jon’s biggest weaknesses, he hasn’t used those three months that he had between winning and Obamao winning to Organize nationally, now with 100 days left, it looks doubtful that McCain 08 can get that done.

Foolish on Mad Jon’s part, he has spent so many years being an “Outsider” he doesn’t seem to “get” that he could have made up the money raising deficit with activism...the Media isn’t going to help him out and he doesn’t have the cash to keep up with the Obamao Campaign...

[camle]

we need to hammer on one thing: The candidate talking ‘change’ out of one side of his mount, is morphing into GWB jr with the other - he’s more like mini-me than mccain is.

we need to point this out to those unaccustomed to thinking

[ballplayer]

I believe Obama Calls it THE OKEY DOKE!

[DooDahhhh]

I cannot stand this man!

[xzins]

Romney comes with a built in organization and a lot of money.

I’m betting on Romney as the current frontrunner in the VP sweepstakes.

[Guenevere]

Yeah, I was part of that 'army of persuasion' as I'm sure many of us were.

Karl used us real good....If anyone knows how to play the game, he sure does.

He played us for chumps.

[bpjam]

While what Rove says is practically empirical, one factor not mentioned anywhere is that ‘Barry’ (his name when he was hanging around white people) peaked in popularity back in February. Hillary beat him in March, April, May & June. Barry hasn’t been able to reach 50% in the national polls and he is still under 10% in leads in a handful of states which shouldn’t be in contention because they are so blue. And this is despite Barry spending millions in advertising for the recent primary in virtually every state and tens of millions in plances like Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana.

For the $130M Barry has spent thus far, he should be well above the 4-6% lead. And this may be evidence that Barry has a ceiling and the Wilder effect is going to be much larger than any pollster will be able to detect. In the caucuses, Barry did great because you couldn’t lie to an exit poll and tell them you voted for the black guy when you really didn’t and Barry could use peer pressure to keep his support in line. But with a secret ballot like a real election, Barry appears to be fully capable of underperforming the polls. And only some wildly higher turnout can make up for it.

And if Barry can’t win an election where he doesn’t even have to face a real Republican, well....

[darth]

Pollsters and the MSM lie. Vote fraud may carry some states. Thank the Founders for the Electoral College.

[AreaMan]

From the article:
Instead of consistency, Mr. Obama has followed Richard Nixon's advice, to cater to his party's extreme in the primaries and then move aggressively to the middle for the fall.

If anyone knows how to get ahead by misleading people it's Karl Rove.

Thanks Karl!