[outofstyle]

Good post! The young people I saw understood the basics and were good at grass roots organization. Several of them talked about having attended “leadership school.” However, when it came to election day GOTV they were not prepared. Some of that was inevitable because when state and local GOP organizations refuse to do their job, it is very hard to play catch up in a short time.

[hampdenkid]

Thank you. The young people of whom you spoke probably attened Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institution. It’s a great organization founded by one of the Founding Fathers of the New Right.

[dirtboy]

The Dems in Montgomery County, PA were actually advertising on Craigslist for paid canvassers the week before the election. They were robo-calling EVERYONE (a GOP deputy campaign manager got two Bill Clinton robocalls, and she votes in all elections, primary and general - you normally don't call your opposing party's core voters).

The Dems threw out all of the stops - and the unions did as well. The GOP HAS to allocate more money to building GOTV infrastructure, and also has to educate its supporters of the need to come out and volunteer (I took seven vacation days to help out my candidate and probably put in about 400 hours of my own time around that as well).