I’m glad to see they’re revving up the phone banks. I went to a local city here in Florida because I thought I was going to be doing GOTV calling and it turned out that Gingrich’s campaign meister had already given up on Florida and was basically having us do research. So while we could have called voters and asked them to vote, we called different specific target group representatives and asked them how they might vote at some point in the future. And they weren’t even home because traditionally this was their day off.
So the volunteers we had not only wasted their time, but volunteers who came in actually left when they realized they weren’t going to be calling people to get them to the polls.
If we could have gotten out the vote (GOTV), it would have made a big difference.
I worked in Florida, and it was a very difficult time. I am to the point, where I actually believe that there are infiltrators in Newt’s campaign, meaning to hurt him, and I am only as conspiracy-prone as the average person.
A lot of the midlevel people have resigned, not the highups, but the head of his social networking, all of his social media, quit last week because her subordinate admins couldn’t delete a negative or inappropriate post from any one of Newt’s many social sites without sending a screen shot to hdqtrs and waiting for approval or permission... if you can imagine that! That is not a secondhand rumor because she told me herself, and was very distraught.
There has been this shift, the last 10 days, and the volunteers are just taking on as much as they can... organizing themselves, setting up their own meetings because the campaign is so clumsy and slow... and just lost, it seems..