Romney campaign trails in crucial ground game
Source: AP via Charlotte Observer
LAS VEGAS Richard and Jessi Constantine were alone recently as they wheeled their 1-year-old son in a stroller around a Las Vegas subdivision, knocking on doors to promote Mitt Romney's candidacy. Yet legions of volunteers working to re-elect President Barack Obama are a pervasive presence in the state.
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The RNC released a memo last week boasting it has made 20 million voter contacts - phone calls and face-to-face conversations. At the Democratic National Convention this month, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told the crowd the re-election campaign had, to date, made 44 million phone calls alone.
The Democratic campaign boasts nearly three times as many offices in eight swing states.
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The Obama campaign, which pioneered the use of social media in its 2008 campaign, released a smartphone app in July to allow volunteers and supporters to track events, see how the president's policies benefited their neighborhoods and find other voters to contact. The Romney campaign came out with an app just last week to let people find out about local campaign events.
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Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/22/3548960/romneys-campaign-trails-in-crucial.html
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I suspect they will start buying "volunteers" as they become more desperate.
4lbs
(6,865 posts)I'll uhh.... go walking around for a while.
Drop some flyers and pamphlets..... in the garbage.
Catch a triple feature at my local cineplex for $20 ($5 per movie, plus $5 for lunch)
Then go back to the campaign office.
4lbs
(6,865 posts)and not give out $200K+ bonuses to people who are evidently not doing anything.
Actually....
Keep doing what you're doing, Mitty. It's heck of a job!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)Republicans are good at some things.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)NC goes into hyperdrive tomorrow. Lots has been done but plenty more to do. GOTV!!