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[Township75]

but I agree with his post.

I would also add a #5 to the original post.

5) Republicans get out their votes themselves (i.e. local volunteers).
Democrats, at least in OH, relied largely on unions to supply the people to get voters to the polls. Why doesn't our party do that themselves? Additionally, when it came to encouraging registered Dems to vote in PA, a lot of PA voters were turned off by the fact that people from NY were knocking on their door to tell them to vote Kerry.

Repubs have locals do that.

Overall, I think we lose SOME elections because our get out the voter effort is relatively poor when compared to the repubs.