Just last month I was telling a republican campaign official that the democrats have a ground game, I’ve had democrat candidates show up at my door, (I’m in a somewhat remote exurb), gotten numerous democrat calls, 10:1 democrat to republican mailers. Other than the mailers, it’s pretty much been crickets from the republicans.
The republicans simply don’t have a ground game.
Clean out the illegal voters in Clark County & you have entirely different results.
They don't think they have to. True, they don't have access to the pool of unemployable volunteers that the Democrats have to go around knocking on doors, but there is an elitist attitude prevalent among the GOPe leadership that comes through not only in its lack of ground game but in its messaging, TV ads, and unwillingness to "take the low road" by going after vote fraud.
They think all they have to do is not be a crazy Communist and and the public will automatically vote for them. They forget how dumbed down that "public" really is, and that even the simplest principles of liberty need to be clearly explained and loudly trumpeted - they aren't ideas the public will have even heard before in school, as they would have in previous generations.
So I can assume then, that you were not involved in the ‘ground game’.
You put in neither time nor money.
Got it.