MB Civic

Jane with an insightful, inside baseball-type look at the 2010 train wreck ..

… 3. Barack Obama and OFA – their “risky strategy” was to spend $30 million turning out 2008 surge voters rather than traditional midterm voters. There was considerable dissent from the DCCC, the DSCC, the DGA and the unions who were also working on Democratic turnout operations. They believed that Obama’s chances of defying history and getting unlikely voters to the polls was small, though the effort was “likely to pay dividends for the president’s reelection campaign in 2012.” They were right.

4. DNC Nevada Turnout Operation – Yes, Harry Reid got lucky that Sarah Palin meddled in his race and gave him the opportunity to run against a crazy extremist. But he also had the good sense take control of the Nevada GOTV operation out of OFA’s hands. Things got contentious when the Reid campaign refused to become fodder for Obama’s 2012 run .. Reid won, the DNC lost, and Harry Reid kept his seat.

hmmm – sometimes I suspect the Dems take dives, just like a corrupt boxer – they don’t really want to win, at least not so much that they have too substantial a majority and are exposed as corporate dupes – they just want to make the oligarchs happy (evidence, Bayh’s sudden retirement, the abandoning of Dean’s very effective 50 state strategy, and the above-documented ham-handed efforts of the OFA) .. in mid-term elections when turnout is low its all about getting out the vote, and – suprise suprise – it doesn’t look like the Dems gave 2 shits about getting out the vote – mab .. read more