At $100 per Vote - the GOP is fucked.

[Coexist]

Dear Friend,

Over at their posh headquarters on First Street -- just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol -- they're sitting around scratching their heads. They just had to spend over $5 million in national GOP money to hold on to the California House seat vacated by Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

They eked out a "victory" by pouring in close to $100 for every vote cast in favor of their candidate -- in a district so Republican, they shouldn't have had to lift a finger.

Looking ahead to 435 House races, 33 Senate races, and hundreds of state and local contests, the strategists at Republican Party headquarters know that their $100 a vote formula just doesn't work.

They can't buy their way out of this one.

There aren't enough heavy-hitting Bush Pioneers left on the planet to help 2006 GOP candidates overcome their Iraq mistakes, their Katrina incompetence, and their miserable record of failure on everything from homeland security to health care to the environment.

<snip>
Let's get it done.

On to victory,

John Kerry

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No wonder Bush keeps trying to throw tax cuts at the obscenely wealthy - they REALLY need them to give it back to the RNC to buy more votes.

:rofl:

[MADem]

1. When ya think about it, it's really MORE than a hundred a vote

The only votes that count are the margin of victory votes. Five thousand votes, five MILLION dollars. In a GOP DISTRICT. A SAFE district.

Trouble, they've got, indeed.

[warrens]

2. That's why they're suppressing voter registration

Totally treasonous, but cost-effective. You just get Jebbie and that meatball in Ohio to sign ludicrous laws that make registration drives, even by non-partisans, impossible. It will hurt Dems more than Repukes, and they know it.

They should hang for trying to gut democracy. This is just like dictators forcing people in opposition parties to use different colored ballots.

[Jane Austin]

3. I think their ability to raise big bucks

would allow them to do that, but what they definitely don't have is 150 Capitol Hill staffers to send out to each and every Congressional race.

They sent out a bunch of professional GOTV people, and they can't do that everywhere.

[Coexist]

4. $100 per vote? Really.

CA-50 was just one district. Can you do the math? I would but I am too lazy.

[Jane Austin]

6. It doesn't matter how much money it would cost them.

With super-rich Republicans getting huge retirement bonuses, huge tax cuts, and huge no-bid contracts with the government, there is plenty of money to go around.

The campaign finance limitations of $2000 per person per candidate doesn't limit these zillionaires from giving the max to each Republican candidate in all 435 Congressional districts.

The Republicans are way ahead of me in the scheming department, but even I would have already hired a coordinator to get this kind of money for each candidate from my super-rich cronies.

Two thousand dollars times 435 Congressional districts is $870,000.

Many of those candidates won't need any help, so a RW rich guy could make a huge impact with less than $500,000.

Considering the salaries and cashouts these people get, that's chump change to a lot of them.

Manpower is another story. That will be hard to match in very many districts.

[rucky]

8. Do WE have that kind of manpower?

Dem turnout was pretty sorry in CA-50.

[Jane Austin]

10. Nobody has that kind of manpower.

But they did in CA-50 and got out their vote better.

They can't match that in every race.

[gordianot]

5. Those ungrateful GOP millionaires.

Look at all of the tax cuts they got, can't they give back enough to show a little gratitude? Maybe they need to rehabilitate the $100 tax rebate for energy relief.

[bananas]

7. I just heard $11 million, or $200 per vote

I think it was Sam Seder's guest on AAR who said it.
caveat: I wasn't listening carefully, it's possible they were talking about something else.

[DFW]

9. That's $100+ per vote in a "SAFE" district!

In toss-up districts, they'll need more than that.

Unfortunately, where they have Diebold, they only need
to pay off the people who run the voting machines. These
things need to be scrapped, and fast, like before November.

Ken Blackwell will pull another Ohio "surprise upset" victory
if he is allowed to, and he is counting on being allowed to.

Stalin said that those who cast the votes decide nothing, and
that those who count the votes decide everything. If we let
Blackwell and his kind do the counting, welcome to the Soviet
States of America.

[Kurovski]

11. And then, there is no real confidence that the Republicans actually won.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1384820

[LaPera]

12. They'll make that up easily by keeping the majority...the seat was more

important, to contol & exploit...the corporations will give all that's needed to the republicans and more.

The electronic voting machines 100% Diebold in SD...I don't believe any election until the software is exposed for ALL to see...Why should any corporation (and a republican corporation at that) own our voting machines that we pay for?

[Dushegubkiy]

13. $100/fake vote. It was stolen. nt

[tomreedtoon]

14. They don't CARE how much they spend!

As long as they can make us pay $3 per gallon for oil, put surcharges on the Internet and everything else, and cut the taxes of the rich, they can pay whatever they want for votes.

You people can gloat about this apparent "poor bargain" if you want, but the fact is they can afford it - and more. The cost of votes is no excuse to lay back and let them continue.

[sendero]

15. Beautiful..

... there is hope!