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Holy Unifying Centrist
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« on: April 14, 2018, 12:09:12 PM »

Looks like the "gop giving up on the house" article was wrong lol.
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Holy Unifying Centrist
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« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2018, 10:38:04 AM »

The thing is that from anecdotal evidence the GOP are actually very good at building a ground game, and being able to turn out voters (Both Florida, and WI spring to mind as very skilled state parties)

The problem was when groups tried to throw millions in TV advertising to prop up Strange, then Saconne. 

Lol...ground game is overrated. The only reason the GOP is good at turnout is due to older voters skewing GOP and turning out at high rates in off year elections. The muh whole ground game turns voters out is a myth. People turnout when they are motivated,...no amount of commercials, canvassers, or policy papers will motivate a voter. Republican voters especially will not turnout with boogeyman Obama and Hillary not being on the ballot or in office

Yeah this lol. You can invest a million dollars in ground game and it'll only increase turnout by 3% at max.

There is no mythical dollars that makes people turn out. They either care to turn out or they don't.
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Holy Unifying Centrist
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2018, 11:48:28 AM »


And let's not even talk about 2016....Trump didn't even have a ground game operation while Hillary inherited Obama's.

Lmao, I forgot about that sh!t. Hillary had the most amazing ground game operation in American history (hundreds of millions of dollars) and she turned out slightly less voters than Obama and underperformed the polls pretty much everywhere besides Arizona and Texas (states where she didn't really have a groundgame operation anyways).
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