First a little background provided courtesy of Alex Wagner of MSNBC. In 2020 Traitor Tot tried a novel approach. His campaign cut the state of Florida up into a number of individual fiefdoms, and went hard with the ground game to turn out low frequency voters. Why not? Those low turnout voters are what put Trump over the top nationally in 2016. It worked like a charm, garnering Trump a level of Hispanic and Jewish voters not seen by a GOP candidate in a generation.
And because Traitor Tot is bone stupid, in 2024 he’s taking his freak show on the road. He has split up each of the battleground states into fiefdoms as well, and is using local resources to make extensive outreach for those low propensity voters. Why not, it worked in 2020?
Here’s why. In 2020 His Lowness ran a traditional campaign, which he eventually blamed for his loss. Let Trump be Trump, remember? But that meant that the RNC and the campaign invested millions into a traditional ground game, with paid staff and volunteers, field offices opened in swing districts and counties for voter outreach to the lazy voters. And in Florida, the only state in which it was widely used, it worked.
As I’ve written repeatedly, in 2024 Trump has totally abandoned the traditional ground game, running on his persona instead, and funneling all of the money he used for the traditional ground game in 2020 between his lawyers, and a totally wasted election integrity force of rednecks with notebooks glaring at people as they enter polling places, and lawyers on tap to risk disbarment to file frivolous lawsuits before and after election day.
Which means that for the most part, this Rube Goldberg contraption to reach low intensity voters is being handled locally by what basically amounts to a bunch of Mom-and-Pop-bodegas being run by local grassroots activists, and pimped nationally by misinformation whores like Mother Tucker and Elon Bust.
Here’s a perfect example. In Pennsylvania, the granddaddy of all battleground states, there’s a website that both Mother and Bust are pimping. It ain’t much. Anybody can go on it, and all it is is a list of infrequent GOP registered voters in different districts from the SoS voter rolls, along with basic contact information. If somebody feels like pitching in, they can go to the site, grab a few names and make some calls or send an e-mail or text to try to establish contact. That’s the master plan.
Here’s the McGuffin. Low propensity voters are low propensity voters for a reason, They don’t give a sh*t! They don’t vote unless something tends to hit them personally. Their voter info is easily available to both campaigns, so they already get tons of e-mails and texts from people they don’t know. And somebody knocking on their door without any kind of ID isn’t going to get very far.
As any qualified political campaign will tell you, reaching low propensity voters is a true pain in the ass. They need to be romanced and coddled, special snowflakes that they are. To get them you almost have to shack out on their sofas like a former college stoner buddy. But it has to be done if you want those votes.
And you need them. As the co-founder of Indivisible, the grassroots playbook that helped create the 2018 Blue Tsunami and 2020 Biden victory pointed out, The pool of actual undecided voters is a drop in the bucket compared to the pool of registered voters out there. And you don’t have to convince them of your positions, you just have to convince them to show up.
In our polarized political atmosphere, every election is a turnout election. And that’s why the DNC, the DSCC, the DCCC and the Harris-Walz campaign have not only flooded the zone in the battleground states with field offices every other block, and paid and volunteer workers to knock on doors and bank phones, they’re drastically upping the ante in the states of North Carolina, Florida, and even Texas, eyeing Rick Scott and Ted Cruz’s Senate seats. They have the money, they have the resources, and they have the enthusiasm.
Everybody keeps saying that this election will almost certainly be decided on the margins. And by far the margin with the largest borders is the bloc of voters that you already have, and just have to convince to get out and vote. I wrote a few days ago that with now 32 days to go, there are no true undecided voters out there, only non voters. Put your money where half of the work has already been done. Don’t touch that dial.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
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we have had two door knockers this week. both specifically asked for our youngest daughter. one r one d. neither asked about the wife and I. don’t worry we will get her to the polls. we vote as a family.