Yes, I cannot wait till it arrives. For just a little $100 and helping the Republican Governors Association in 2010. They could have charged me more…
Letters to the editor using DNC website (health care)
Obama provides his people a link to contact media to support the health care bill! We can take advantage of it!
We can use this same link to OPPOSE it. Dick Morris says we have to get 8% points in disapproval ratings to defeat it! Please follow this link and send your letter of opposition.
Barack Obama’s ” Organizing for America ” has put the call out for people to e-mail their local papers and write a letter to the editor. They have created a VERY easy and fast way to write all your local papers with just a few key strokes. PLEASE take a minute to do this today and jump behind enemy lines to help kill the bill.
Here’s what we need to do :
Go to : http://my.democrats.org/page/speakout/posthouseLTE
1. Put in your zip code. You will be redirected to a page where you enter all your address information - this is required.
2. Check all the boxes for all of your local papers.[and note at the bottom of this list, as you can expand to other newspapers too]
3. NOW CAREFUL THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART ! DO NOT CLICK NEXT. Instead Click ” 2. Compose Letter ” this is in the top middle of the page. This will allow you to compose your own letter to the editor against the health care bill.
4. Write your letter to the editor against the health care bill.[when you preview your letter MAKE CERTAIN that all the newspapers are there]
5. Now click Next
6. Preview your letter to the editor and click Send Email
[hint if you would like to see what others have written google 'Health Care Bill Letters to the Editor', but make sure to make yours original]
NJ and the RNC
I know everyone is down on the RNC, but I will tell you, I have made phone calls thru the RNC website to NJ voters all day. This is the first time I have been involved in calling voters (or walking neighborhoods), it was fun. Most contacts were good numbers and voters seemed receptive. Just wanted to give out something positive “the party” has done for candidates.
New Jersey
Anyone know how we can make phone calls for GOTV from home, for the NJ Gov race? I know we can for Virginia, but we have got to push Corzine outa-the-way. Thanks.
Linda McMahon candidate for Senate in CT
Linda McMahon is already airing ads against Chris Dodd, she has a new one out with Pres. Obama doing a fundraiser for Dodd in CT today. I have seen some of the Republican candidates in CT, and seems like she has been agressive and spending some money early, with Dodd down in the polls. Intersting take, like her so far, intersting background…the future may tell us she will be the only Senator to have ever dropped kicked someone on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LindaMcMahon2010#p/a/0/pnBopMR6EWE
Deeds “campaign shift”
From a liberal blog, interesting pass-on…lets not get to comfortable in Virginia:
From our fearless reporter (and Virginia Beach YD’s chair) Kyle Blankenship comes news (from several sources on the coordinated campaign, Organizing for America, and the Deeds campaign) that the Virginia branch of OFA is “joining forces with the Deeds campaign” and is “going to contact every new voter in 2008″ (quotes from Pat Okerlund of OFA on Kyle’s Facebook page).
In other news; according to what Kyle’s hearing, almost all the negative stuff - TV/radio ads, call/walk scripts, and literature - is being pulled by the Deeds campaign (I’ll believe it when I see it). Supposedly, it’s being replaced by ads similar to what we saw at the end of the Democratic primary last spring, including ones that tell us who Creigh Deeds is (the slogan “letting Creigh be Creigh” reportedly is being bandied about). Let’s hope.
This messaging change - if it actually takes place - should have occurred some time ago, but that there’s no way to go back in time (unless you’re Bob McDonnell, who will try to take us back to the “Father Knows Best” 1950s). I also agree with Kyle that the Deeds campaign should have laid out who Creigh is - in other words, crafted a “personal narrative” of their candidate - a long time ago as well. Frankly, this is Campaigning 101, and it just baffles me that it wasn’t done months ago, especially considering the fact that Creigh is such a likable, down-to-earth guy. Along with the failure to craft a clear political narrative and to tie it into the (non-existent, for the most part) personal narrative, this has been a huge mistake by the Deeds campaign.
Fortunately, Kyle’s sources are telling him that from now on, it’s mostly going to be positive. While that’s unlikely to be enough in and of itself for Creigh to win, if it happens it might give the Deeds campaign some earned media and get people talking (and maybe motivated, which they haven’t been). Potentially, this could boost Deeds a couple of percentage points. I’m highly skeptical at this point, but we’ll see…
The overall thinking in all this apparently is that if the Deeds campaign lays off the attack ads, and if McDonnell keeps the negatives coming, that may backfire on McDonnell and boost Creigh. At this point, with Creigh down about 8 points in the polls, I personally see no reason not to try this strategy. Frankly, it can’t be worse than the strategy that’s been employed so far, namely “mention Bob’s thesis 24/7, run away from Obama and important Democratic priorities/policies, focus on rural Virginia and pay relatively little attention to ‘urban crescent’ voters.”
Also, while a strategy change probably won’t be enough at this late stage in the game, you never know in politics (or sports). One of the things we did on the Webb campaign in 2006 was to pressure George Allen relentlessly and hope he made a mistake (aka, “forced error”). It worked, and he did. So far this election cycle, Bob McDonnell hasn’t been pressured much at all, except on the thesis (which he’s handled pretty well overall). Given that situation, a change in strategy by the Deeds campaign now might mess up McDonnell’s “best-laid plans” a bit. If - and this is a big “if” - Deeds can start closing the gap in the polls, McDonnell might start feeling some pressure and make a mistake. Right now, McDonnell has every reason in the world to be cocky and overconfident, and that can lead to mistakes in and of itself.
Anyway, I agree that it’s time to shake things up and see what might happen. I really hope the campaign does what Kyle reports they’re planning to do. Then, if all the stars align and Creigh gets to within the margin of error (2%-3%?) a few days before the election, you never know what might happen. Of course, Creigh will need a fantastic final 21 days, plus a super-strong Washington Post endorsement, plus Barack Obama coming to Virginia (see the “p.s.”), plus everything else to go right, plus McDonnell to screw up somehow. For all that to happen is unlikely, probably wishful thinking, but what the heck, at least it might provide some excitement and help boost a few Democratic House of Delegates candidates (plus Steve Shannon?) over the finish line. As Kyle says, “I’m not convinced by any means that [Creigh] can do it, but I want to believe.” Me too!
P.S. Let’s also hope that President Obama is coming to Virginia, because it’s sorely needed to boost turnout by Obama’s supporters (African Americans, young people, suburban whites). Needless to say, as witnessed by last year’s Obama victory in Virginia, there are lots of those voters…
I love Texas GOP diversity
Gov. Rick Perry appointed Judge Eva Guzman to be the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. She replaces Justice Scott Brister who left the Court early last month and returned to private practice.
Guzman is currently an Associate Justice with the 14th Court of Appeals in Houston; Perry appointed her to the court in 2001 where she was the first Hispanic woman appointed to that body. Guzman has served in the Texas judiciary for more than a decade, first as a trial court judge in Harris County Family Court.
CA-10, have we been asleep?
Internal polling and Wilson Research Polling show Republican David Harmer, only 6 points down Democratic Lt. Governor Garamendi in big blue CA-10. That is amazing this thing is even close, much less single digits. Garamendi may have to actually spend some $$$. We are so busy trying to screw-up NY-23, are we missing a good one in California?
http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/01/harmer-says-poll-shows-him-ahead-of-garamendi/
Poor Creigh Deeds
I bet at this moment he is wishing he would not have brought up that 20-year old thesis. The two ads from Bob McDonnell’s campaign are POWERFUL.
“Reality TV” even captures Deeds calling the female reporter “young lady” as he tries to explain his “no tax”, but “some tax” policy.
“Trust” has to be the best one, other than the one with his Iraq vetern daughter (she is hot BTW, I dont know if I can say that). “Trust” has a litany of female officials Bob McDonnell has hired/appointed, the Deputy Attorney General, a black female, is awsome in this ad. The guys at the McDonnel campaign are great, I love the thesis defense, but how could this be a defense…they are on OFFENSE.
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/index.php/press_releases/details/mcdonnell_campaign_unveils_two_new_ads/
Afghanistan problems are Obama’s
When George W. Bush finished his term in office, he handed Obama, an Afghanistan that had problems, but some what stable over portions of the countryside. Obama came in, and changed SOP’s, no firing unless fired upon, no missile strikes when civilians around and movement of troops to stationary duties, civil projects, and stoppage of small-footprint offense. Guess what has happened folks, his liberal war-fighting policies have increased death toll for civilians and soldiers, and this is his fault, clearly. This would be front page news, if George W. Bush was in-charge, but nothing from the MSM on this. We need agressive force to quell the violence, not timid response, with a large-footprint. I am sorry for the guys and gals fighting this one.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/12/MNA219MAH3.DTL
