Posted on 02/27/2012 11:19:53 AM PST by Theoria
Cagey tactics that will make life difficult for Republicans on Tuesday.
On Tuesday night, Barack Obama’s name will be on a Michigan ballot, but his campaign is doing everything it can to keep his supporters away from the polls. On previous Tuesdays when Republicans were voting, the re-election campaign made high-profile efforts to encourage Democrats to turn out and participate in party nominating contests in which Obama faced no serious competition. Obama organizers lured voters to Iowa caucus locations with a promise that the president would address attendees by teleconference, and Joe Biden did the same for New Hampshire house parties at 8 p.m. on primary night, an hour after the polls closed in most of the states. In both cases, campaign leadership pointed to participation rates in the contests as evidence of a successful dry run for Obama’s operations in November. “The results showed an incredible amount of enthusiasm for the president’s re-election,” campaign manager Jim Messina told the press after Iowa. “The Republicans should not expect they can build something like this overnight.”
In Michigan, however, the campaign is planning no such show of force. The state legislature scheduled simultaneous primaries for both parties, against the wishes of Democratic Party officials, who have chosen to award delegates through a caucus in May. There were no efforts to dispatch canvassers over the weekend or to leave literature on the doorknobs of voters whom Obama’s analysts have identified as turnout targets.
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Looks like Santorum might pull it off....;)
Things have changed dramatically here in Michigan over the last few years. A voter ID law is firmly in place and we have a serious fraud fighter in the secretary of state office.
Oddly enough, Ron Paul is campaigning in Detroit Baptist churches which are Obama territory.
I’m voting in MI tomorrow and it damn well won’t be for Romney.
For the record: I dislike ALL of the candidates. If I could mush ‘em together after some selective dissections I’d build a great one. The first thing to go would be the Mattel label from the back of Romney’s neck.
Romney and Santorum, to both their credit, have been showing the state a lot of love. I’m sure those with landline phones feel otherwise, but we’re still stinging after McCain gave us up for dead. Romney and Santorum were both on the radio this morning and, heaven help me, Romney is so plastic and nothing that comes out of his mouth sounds genuine. I have also had quite enough of being told by the GOP establishment to vote for Candidate X because “he’s electable.” They can take their electability excuse and SHOVE it.
Maybe I can pass my cold along to some troublemaking democrat at the polls masquerading as a GOP voter.
Right then is when I think to myself "...which is a lot better than not bothering."
The weather is supposed to be nasty tomorrow with freezing rain.
....the immediate glee Democrats might feel if Rick Santorum were to claim victory in Romney’s home state on Tuesday...
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Hey I think it’s great!!! Let the DemocRATS cross over & vote for Santorum. Anything to get RINO-Rom out of the race.
....the immediate glee Democrats might feel if Rick Santorum were to claim victory in Romney’s home state on Tuesday...
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Hey I think it’s great!!! Let the DemocRATS cross over & vote for Santorum. Anything to get RINO-Rom out of the race.
The weather is supposed to be nasty tomorrow with freezing rain.
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Wonderful. Low turn out always favors Conservatives.
I looked on weather.com and the rain does not start in Monroe, Michigan until around midnight Tues night.
Be careful what you wish for Barry....
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