We're analyzing the Republican Meltdown way too much. It's simple to understand

[WCGreen]

12. I read a description of what happened on election day...

Or rather what didn't happen with their poll watchers. They had a great program, from what I understand, but they had so many young people who wanted to be boss instead of worker that they had to rely on older folks who weren't trained or didn't get their packages.

The workers didn't want to do the work and the software package was too complicated for volunteers.

We had a similar program to keep control of finances and that program also had a GOTV package which I looked over. Now I am pretty good at navigating around programs and I was able to self-discover how to run the finance part but the GOTV, that was complicated.

So if the reports are true that the package was delivered right on top of the election and was complicated, I think that was a major problem for GOP's GOTV plan.

I was in on helping coordinate a GOTV program in Cuyahoga County back in 1998 for the statewide ticket.

We did all the work starting about two weeks before the election and was able to send out to the targeted precincts two people with two cell phones so we could id people who hadn't voted and contact them to offer a ride and one person to stand at the poll to greet every voter and handed them a sheet made for that State House district.

We also did a complete sample ballot for each State House District that was sent out to absentee voter as they requested for a ballot. We then crossed those people off the GOTV lists and focused on getting our people to the polls.

It was a lot of work, but we got it all done and felt as if we bumped up the gubernatorial turnout by at least 5-7 percent. Sadly, the turnout in the rest of the state overwhelmed us.

The point of all of this rhetoric is to show how worker intensive even with the computers GOTV truly is. We had the EAGER people on the ground and I suspect that the GOP had a whole lot of kids that wanted to be the boss and felt calling people or knocking on doors was "beneath" them. We had a few like that but fortunately, we had enough who were willing to do the work.