"GOP Aims to Scare Up Big Voter Turnout" - Washington Post. which means...

[greeneyedboy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901906.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901906.html">GOP Aims to Scare Up Big Voter Turnout
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901906.html">With House Losses Likely, Tactics Focus on Warnings About Democrats
By Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, October 20, 2006; A01

With top Republican strategists now privately predicting substantial House losses, President Bush and top GOP officials plan to spend the final days of the 2006 campaign attempting to rally partisans and limit conservative defections with dire warnings about the consequences of a Democratic Congress.

Amid predictions that demoralized conservative voters might sit out the election, Bush and other senior Republicans will escalate charges that Democrats will raise taxes, weaken national security and liberalize social policies. Bush struck those themes in campaign appearances yesterday in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and White House senior adviser Karl Rove said he "will consistently refresh that message" between now and Election Day.

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A number of GOP operatives said privately yesterday that they now see minimum losses of perhaps 18 seats, with 25 to 30 a more likely outcome. Democrats need 15 to take control of the House. . . .

"If the vote were today, we would not hold the House," said Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.), one of several Republicans in relatively safe districts running ads and sending mailings to voters to protect their seats. Souder, who easily won two years ago with 69 percent of the vote, said that if Democrats are successful in knocking off the three Indiana GOP lawmakers who are currently trailing in the polls, he could be washed away, too. "This is going to be for me an all-time Republican low in this district," he said. . . .

(see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901906.html for the body of the article)

. . . .Rove, speaking by telephone while on a campaign swing with the president, discounted polls and other indicators suggesting that Democratic voters are far more energized than Republicans. He said the GOP's get-out-the-vote operation, which proved more effective than the Democrats' in the past two elections, will be as strong or stronger this year.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said that for the past six weeks, a voter mobilization effort in competitive House and Senate districts has produced more contacts than during an equivalent time in 2004.

"Conservatives are cranky but not self-destructive," said GOP adviser Mary Matalin, a former aide to Vice President Cheney. "A thing we could do, have time to do and will do in the remaining time will be to hammer home what a Pelosi-Rangel-Conyers House would really mean." She was referring to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who would become House speaker if Democrats win, and fellow liberals Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.) and John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), who are in line for committee chairmanships.

"That hasn't reached penetration levels yet," Matalin said.

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so just remember that all those upbeat poll stories that make us feel so great are also firing up the GOP base and keeping them from staying home, Foley or no Foley.

this is no time to be paranoid and give up, and it's no time to be complacent and celebrate prematurely.

with a tsunami of Democratic voters on November 7, we will win these races. we need to create the tsunami, voter by voter. (yes, AND watch our backs for theft, but the more voters we amass, the more impossible it becomes to steal.)

GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV
GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV
GOTV GOTV GOTV GOTV
GOTV GOTV GOTV
G O T V !


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901906.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. You can get-out-the-vote from home...

...with Moveon's "Call for Change:"
www.moveon.org

[greeneyedboy]

5. also the list on the Mainstreet Moms site - www.themmob.org

http://www.themmob.org/havop/havopactions.html
top 5 ways to volunteer.

or http://www.pfaw.org for election protection/civic participation project (has its own site, http://www.ep365.org/ )

and many others.

just pick one and do it.

[Nite Owl]

2. GOP aims to scare up big voter turnout

And they will.

We are all scared of them staying in power. The voter turnout will be big but it will be those voting for the dems who show to register their protest. Scaring people will no longer work the way it did, everything is a mess, the people have been ignored don't want to live without jobs and health care. They want changes.

[greeneyedboy]

3. exactly. which is scarier: Pelosi or the Apocalypse? i say the latter...

and i bet most voters would agree with me.

[Webster Green]

4. If they "win", they're fucked, because no one will buy it..

They need to just shut the fuck up, and turn it over.

They had their chance and blew it.

[Trajan]

6. As much as I appreciate this thread ....

You have certainly exceeded the allowable amount of reproduced content per Fair Use AND DU forum rules .....

There is a 4 paragraph limit for citations of copyrighted material ...

[greeneyedboy]

8. OK,

i am certainly willing to cut out some more. i left out most of the article and just included two blocks that summarized the gist of the piece; thought that would be acceptable. i have every intention of abiding by rules & customs here. i wasn't counting short single sentences set off by line breaks as a full paragraph; hence the confusion.

[MADem]

7. Well, if Mary Matalin keeps talking about 'penetration'

it may scare the GOP into staying home...given all the scandals of late.

Haven't they been screwed enough..and when will they realize it?

[Vitruvius]

9. GOP also geared up to purge Democratic voters, as in OH, FL... GOP also

geared up to suppress surviving Dem voters by rigged shortages of voting machines -- for Dems only. As in OH, FL, and anywhere else they can get away with it.

The GOP is also geared up to throw away Democratic ballots, once cast. As Greg Palast points out: "In Ohio, during the 2004 Presidential election, 153,237 ballots were simply thrown away — more than the Bush “victory” margin. In New Mexico the uncounted vote was five times the Bush alleged victory margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush’s triumph of 13,498 was overwhelmed by 36,811 votes rejected...." Palast's article is at http://www.gregpalast.com/recipe-for-a-cooked-election ; the DU thread is at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x453688

As so many others have asked: if the GOP has such a terrific voter turnout operation, how come we NEVER see long lines in GOP precincts, not even at peak voting hours? Does that "big GOP voter turnout" even exist? Or are they computer-generated phantoms in their Diebold voting machines?

So far, the ONLY 'evidence' that the alleged "big GOP voter turnout" exists comes from those Republican voting machines.


That said, I'll be working before & on election day -- because as others have pointed out -- the more they have to steal, the bigger the chance they'll get caught.

But it would be nice -- for a change -- to see the national Democratic Party do SOMETHING about Rethugncan vote-rigging.

[greeneyedboy]

10. i wish every thread did not turn into the election theft thread.

and IMO it would be best if another organization, ACLU or MoveOn or some other 527 group, took the lead on that issue, but i would rather discuss that in one of the 500000000 other topics about election theft.

[yellowcanine]

11. The boy king cries "Wolf!" again. Sooner of later the villagers WILL

stop coming. These tactics actually may work to the Dem's advantage in some areas of the country.