If you would like more information about Oregon, please FReepmail me. I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed recently.
Posted on 03/15/2014 7:53:44 AM PDT by bray
And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, but I was free born. Acts 22:28
It appears the stranglehold of the Marxists may be loosening from America. Not only was the national election in Florida for David Jolly a major victory, but here in deep blue Oregon we had a special election on Light Rail that Conservatives won. Not only was it a defeat for the crown jewel of liberalism, but we won the election against the Oregon Democrat machine which never loses. This election was in a town that runs pretty much the same mix as the state, but we ran it by focusing on Getting Out The Vote and very little else.
We have spent three years developing our campaign system and specifically using the petition process to go directly to the voters and bypassing the politicians. This particular petition and ballot stated that before Tigard, OR spends any money on a major mass transportation project like Light Rail or Dedicated Buses the people would have to approve it with a vote. This was simply a vote to require a vote of the people before the central designers brought big boondoggle projects to the town and it passed by 200 votes out of 9000 cast.
This may not seem like a large victory, but the opposition had the entire Dem machine behind the defeat of this including Obama’s Organizing America network. The entire city council as well as the Mayor, who we got elected, were united and used the media to scare the citizens into voting this down. They made false accusations this was a Koch brothers, Tea Party group of outsiders to the point of using the old Wolf in Sheep’s clothing cliché. We had no media, were outspent around 4 or 5 to 1 and relied on signs, a couple of mailers and knocking targeted doors and won.
This cannot be minimized as it shows the people are no longer voting automatically the way the liberal establishment wants them to vote. There is no more ingrained liberal establishment in Oregon where people worship the earth and believe in Global Warming making the Light Rail a symbol of that belief and voting against it makes you guilty. You cannot be a good person in Oregon unless you are against the car and for supposedly clean transportation like trains. This was the place where environmentalism and ecotopia began, so most Oregonians have been trained to believe in worshipping the earth. This was a huge hurdle to overcome and took three years to accomplish the turning of that religious belief.
This town has not voted Repub for around twenty years and has been a safe seat for Dems. To win an election on an economic and societal conservative argument was groundbreaking. The Light Rail regional plan has been designed for over twenty years and fifty million dollars to be the most aggressive rail based metropolitan transportation system in the country. When Obama was elected, Portland was described as the model for the rest of the country and we have put a major roadblock in that plan. There is no way to go around this town and it blocks perhaps the most important spoke to the entire plan.
This election does have national implications for two reasons. One it shows that people are not going to vote the Party line because the politicians tell them so. It also showed that the Dems could not get their people out like they expected and may be starting to feel Marxist fatigue. With 25% real unemployment this state is a disaster for Obamacare showcased through the Cover Oregon fiasco designed by the Governor and Dems who were all in building the only website worse than Obama’s. These hardcore socialists spent $60 million on a website that could not allow one person to sign up. Although we did not talk to many Dems, you could tell there was not the usual arrogance you normally find from the ones you encountered in their homes.
The other lesson was to stick to GOTV and do everything you do to make sure to maximize our voters through persuasion and education. We have Fraud by Mail here which means the ballots are mailed a month early and when we began canvassing. We hit all of our Republican doors from the time the ballots dropped, but the same basic effort can and is being repeated throughout the country. The key to our system is to only hit houses that are likely to vote your way and get them to vote. There is no point going to doors you have little or no chance of getting a vote and are wasting time. This is critical for Repubs since there are far fewer Repub volunteers so you have to make the most of the limited time you have. To spend that time with a person who is a 1 in 10 chance of voting your way vs one who is a 1 in 2, you go where you have the best chance.
In addition to not wasting time you are not setting yourself up for longer arguments and more frustration. There is nothing worse than arguing with a Marxist since the first place they will always go is to name-calling. This not only wastes time, but lowers morale as people have to deal with some very angry, argumentative low IQ voters. This turns a difficult chore into pure torture and will turn your limited volunteers into fewer volunteers. Keep it fun and rewarding because the vote is won at the door as we proved in a blue P-Town suburb.
This election and the one on the complete opposite corner of the country proved a couple of things. There is a distrust of the liberal establishment and there is a way Conservatives can fight the liberal voter machine. Even though the inner city vote printing presses exist, we have little reason to complain until we are getting our voters out. We were able to get our voters out in a special election and were able to beat them against the entire machine using all of its tricks. They used every scare tactic in their very thin book and still came up short. We did not equivocate and when they would make certain words off limits we used them specifically in our literature and defended them. This not only worked, but the voters were excited to vote and appreciated their voices being heard and not muted. In the end, if you focus on getting out the vote none of the Democrat tricks work. There is a very good chance the worm is turning and there is a quiet rage across this country from Oregon to Florida.
Pray America wakes up
Yep Romney lost because so many Rs stayed home. Obama (IIRC) got fewer total votes than he did against John Mickeyne.
If the GOP keeps moving left, there is no reason to go and vote
If you would like more information about Oregon, please FReepmail me. I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed recently.
Do like bray said — “Get out the vote campaign.”
Romney was too liberal and a liar pretending to be severely conservative, he did not deserve to win. If the GOP can’t give us something to vote for then they deserve to lose
It is really painful to have to read BS posts like this in order to see those who are making efforts to clear up this left wing mess. Take your blinders off and realize that we have a firmly entrenched Democrat party and one way only to defeat them. You should just give up and leave the rest of us alone.
Turning the GOP into a pale imitation of the Dem party is not a good strategy
Thanks for the report - what do you think of this candidate for U.S. Senate and her chances of winning? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy9ceR47plg
Oh, good - so you are content with Obama continuing to stack the bureaucracy and the courts with leftists for another 4 years.
You are no ally of the conservative cause. If the only choice you have in a given situation is to put the breaks on then that’s what you have to do. Reality was that Romney was the nominee. There was no changing that - it was reality. Reality. Few if any of us supported Romney in the primary around here, but it’s not fairy tale land we live in - time to grow up. And aside from that, why bring a pity parade to a thread detailing a victory and the tireless efforts of those to achieve it? What is the point of bringing a rain cloud on a sunny day?
“You should just give up and leave the rest of us alone.”
billhilly - Stop being an ass. Sometimes the reality of the situation can be better expressed. But the reality is that most of the Republican office holders are RINOs. Or if you prefer they are in reality Blue Dog Democrats who have successful hijacked the Republican party.
Who in the Republican party today runs on a LIMITED G’ment platfrom. I will give you a hint - Ted Cruz
Remember Ron Reagen - Government is the problem -
You’ve been here 14 years and write posts like this ? Where were you when the Myth of Willard was debunked ?
She is too moderate to get any interest from the people who do the work. She is the next loser who is getting the usual bad advice.
Agreed, this campaign can get Conservatives elected since the message is not that important. You don’t have to fit the message to the voter, you fit the voter to the message, big difference and the way to get true conservatives elected.
This is not a statewide project, it is local to Portland and surrounding cities.
Excellent news, bray!
Congratulations are in order. Plain, old hard GOTV work. Community organizing, if you will. It is generally successful every time it is tried.
Its kind of like how everyone complains about their local newsrag and TV station, but no one wants to be bothered to attend city council, school board, or county commission meetings and actually become citizen journalists. You would be shocked how responsive they become whenever the lights are turned on.
But that kind of effort would require missing an episode of Dancing with the Stars, or whatever.
Thanks Z, you know how big this win is. No Light Rail down 99W is huge.
How are things in CO?
Yes, I’ve been here for fourteen years and have seen more people take credit for miracles as yet performed, or feats performed by others than the Mayo Clinic. My observations are fairly commonly shared by others here. Although I do not want to be known here, I have seen much of my own work claimed by the keyboard Kops who learned how use Google.
Yes, I’ve been here for fourteen years and have seen more people take credit for miracles as yet performed, or feats performed by others than the Mayo Clinic. My observations are fairly commonly shared by others here. Although I do not want to be known here, I have seen much of my own work claimed by the keyboard Kops who learned how use Google.
you are the one content with leftists
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