I agree we can learn from them. But because they are working in urban, high density Dem areas, GOTV will always be easier for them. They can send in paid union guys and knock on apartment doors more easily that we can drag people in from the fields. But we must do better!
We know they have inherent advantages and will also cheat whereever they can get away with it (I was handing out GOP ballot cards outside a poll in NE Philly and overheard two guys as they were leaving, with one asking the other where they were going next).
We know this is the case, so we have to be doing twice as much as they are. I think potential GOP volunteers got lulled into a sense of complacency with the polling that showed Toomey up six points. But beyond that, the GOP needs to think big on GOTV - Bush 2004 did just that, and it won them the election. As someone once noted, if you win big enough, they can't cheat their way to victory.
Ah yes, I keep forgetting the seedy underbelly of the Democrat Party and their operatives.