One impetus for me beginning this blog was my incredulity at a lengthy New York Times piece entitled "Who Lost Ohio?" which I excerpted and commented on here.
Bush WON Ohio, it wasn't Kerry's to lose. But aside from taking issue with the title, the story did provide an excellent contrast with the approaches of the two campaigns in a way which points to results in future elections.
The Democrats, led primarily by a massive infusion of money from billionaire George Soros and others, funded a nationwide effort called "Americans Coming Together" or ACT that had a heavy presence in Ohio. They shipped in tie-dyed hippie freak tree worshipping neosocialists from safe states to promote voter registration and voter turnout in Ohio for Kerry. It wasn't hard to spot them. I was in Ohio shortly before the elction and saw more than one car with an Illinois license plate adorned with Kerry-Edwards stickers carting around yard signs.
The Bush effort was homegrown. It concentrated on volunteers who lived and worked in the local communities to reach out to their friends and neighbors.
Dem voter registration efforts had their problems. One over eager Dem registered Mary Poppins, George Forman, Janet Jackson, Dick Tracy and more in the smallish town of Defiance. In the resulting scandal it was learned he was to be paid with crack cocaine for his efforts. Perhaps he was given a bit of an advance payment before he begun work.
Imagine you are an Ohio voter and the doorbell rings at night. You answer and it's some hippie freak from out of state mumbling about how he hates Bush and how "the corporations" are ruining the world. You'd call the cops!
After spending 200 million dollars, what did Americans Coming Together have to show for it? Byron York points out in this National Review column that after all that, the only election they won was for Secretary of State in Missouri!
After the election, ACT downsized, sending a fresh wave of unemployed hippies back to their Dem enclaves to lick their wounds, smoke their crack and spin their conspiracy theories about "the corporations." But now we learn the organization is folding up shop permanently.
I cannot say it will be missed. The sheer arrogance of big money Democrats thinking that sending an army of smelly hippies into Ohio or any other state was a good idea just shows how completely out of touch they are with voters. Think they will learn their lesson? Nah! As we've been discovering here at Mike's America, liberal brain cancer requires a willingness to ignore the obvious. And the disease seems to be an epidemic on the left.
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