I made 30,000 calls in 2010, organized students for sign wavings, and recruited and trained dozens of republicans to make phone calls and also participate at events.
With Romney as the nominee I will consider voting for him. I will vote for third party if there's a good conservative candidate because I see no way Romney could possibly beat Obama. If Colorado actually ends up being close, I'll vote for Romney reluctantly.
Our Congressional candidate, Joe Coors, lacks energy (since he's almost 80) and is a pretty terrible candidate, though his staff is way better than Ryan Frazier's (they even got the lease from Perlmutter's campaign HQ which he's had since 08). We don't have any state-wide elections. I might organize for our State Rep who was restricted into a lean-Dem district compared to an evenly split one, or for another State Rep who's district I used to be in.
Other than that, I think I'm going to sit this one out. Our candidates our weak, and so the energy is already low, and it is honestly pointless for me to try to GOTV and recruit volunteers when they don't have a cause worth fighting for. It was tough enough in 2010, with a good year and awesome candidates (IMO).
Our party leadership is mostly poor, but compared to Nevada and Maine we have the slickest machine running. I don't see how we can run against the Obama campaign like this. They were d*mn good last time in Jefferson County, and all of Colorado for that matter. I worked with some of the people in charge of the area on a city council campaign (yes I've worked for democrats
) and the Obama campaign did a truly amazing job.
