I agree with you. And I might add that focusing on seven "swing states" while ignoring all the rest might have seemed the answer, if all consultants thought about was "polls" but the fact of the matter is the "polls" came as text messages and emails (at least those sent to me) and as noted by Gloria J. Maloney, were nothing but requests …
I agree with you. And I might add that focusing on seven "swing states" while ignoring all the rest might have seemed the answer, if all consultants thought about was "polls" but the fact of the matter is the "polls" came as text messages and emails (at least those sent to me) and as noted by Gloria J. Maloney, were nothing but requests for donations. I would get as many as 30 a day and sometimes more. My morning ritual became deleting all the junk "polls."
So, while they sat in their offices in DC playing with "polls", none of those consultants came to my state, because they had written it off as "red"; we were literally on our own trying to GOTV with our neighbors and friends. For average people, working all day, then working after work trying to raise capital for signs and events in small towns, without adequate support from the party, which was just fine mounting huge rallies in seven states, over and over again...the message was stark. They apparently didn't see a need to GOTV in our communities, because the "polls" told them we didn't matter. As I wrote on another of TC's posts, our good and great candidates in this county lost by 100 votes or so. It didn't have to happen. But it did.
I agree with you. And I might add that focusing on seven "swing states" while ignoring all the rest might have seemed the answer, if all consultants thought about was "polls" but the fact of the matter is the "polls" came as text messages and emails (at least those sent to me) and as noted by Gloria J. Maloney, were nothing but requests for donations. I would get as many as 30 a day and sometimes more. My morning ritual became deleting all the junk "polls."
So, while they sat in their offices in DC playing with "polls", none of those consultants came to my state, because they had written it off as "red"; we were literally on our own trying to GOTV with our neighbors and friends. For average people, working all day, then working after work trying to raise capital for signs and events in small towns, without adequate support from the party, which was just fine mounting huge rallies in seven states, over and over again...the message was stark. They apparently didn't see a need to GOTV in our communities, because the "polls" told them we didn't matter. As I wrote on another of TC's posts, our good and great candidates in this county lost by 100 votes or so. It didn't have to happen. But it did.