Where's all the "Tom Perez blame" this morning?

[George II]

[FSogol]

1. (Crickets)How'd the DSA policy of not voting since Jones was a white-male corporate stooge work out?

[yallerdawg]

2. The DNC came in quiet...

and ORGANIZED.

Perfection, Mr. Perez!

[Demsrule86]

16. very very smart. We lose elections that are nationalized.

[DownriverDem]

40. The DNC did a super job

The idea was to stay out of the race. Not to make it about the national Dems.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. The quiet man is a veritable genius.

[Zambero]

4. Perez is on a roll

He directed a stealth operation in Alabama that yielded stunning results. And no to forget the recent Virginia statewide results exceeding all expectation. So far so good.

[Iliyah]

5. ???????

He may be dull but apparently he is an effective one.

Personally, I trust Pres O, and Mr. Perez was one of his top choices.

[Hekate]

25. This

[iluvtennis]

37. Ditto.

[GreenEyedLefty]

64. I like dull. Give me dull.

[ollie10]

6. Impressive

Spend the money.

Smart enough not to send a bunch of "Yankee Carpetbaggers" into a Southern state to campaign.

[workinclasszero]

7. Looks like he's two for two to me

Virginia and now Alabama!

[George II]

10. And New Jersey, although Christie did all the "heavy work" there.

[workinclasszero]

11. Oh crap totally whiffed on NJ!

So much democratic winning I'm losing track!!

[George II]

24. So much that I'm getting sick of it!

[workinclasszero]

28. Hang on for the blue wave in 2018!!

You can get sick of winning after that!

[vi5]

18. I'm in NJ...

...nobody gets credit for that except Chris Christie. DNC wasn't really anywhere to be found. But the fact is that we could have run a moldy sandwich with a D after it's name and we would have won so it would have been silly for the party to put time, effort, or money into NJ. It was much better spent in VA where things were closer.

[vi5]

8. What type of stuff did they do for this race?

Not saying they didn't. I'm just curious. Whoever did whatever....it obviously worked. Particularly the GOTV.

Nice work all around.

[Iliyah]

12. DNC did a sleath attack.

GOTV, organizing, and money without acknowledging it.

[marble falls]

38. Sleath attacks are good, right?

[Beartracks]

44. Beware the sleath!!

[Demsrule86]

17. Get out the vote...really worked to turn out Black voters...also put money in the race...lots of it.

[Scoopster]

35. Here's a great thread about the on-the-ground GOTV effort

Link to tweet

I've posted this more than once today - the DNC as well as the NAACP and local groups of residents who banded together all deserve massive amounts of credit for their work. Tom Perez & the DNC brought some of the stuff that was successful in Virginia down to Alabama and it helped a great deal.

[TeamPooka]

56. That is a must-read thread for a how-to-win playbook on the ground for GOTV efforts.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

[mcar]

9. He may not be "exciting" (per some)

But he gets the job done!

[brush]

20. We don't need "exciting" for that job. That's the candidates' job...to be exciting.

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Perez knows how to work with the AA community, a big part of the base, to get out the vote.

Also he didn't spend most of the funds on TV ads. He distributed much to local organizing groups who took it from there.

The TV ads he did spend on were very effect though.

[mcar]

31. That's exactly right

[stonecutter357]

13. K&R

[world wide wally]

14. Joe Trippi did a great job too

[NurseJackie]

15. Yes, indeed. I'm wondering also. (Thank you for asking.)

[Gothmog]

19. DNC waged stealth organizing campaign for Jones

this makes me smile https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/alabama-senate-democrats-jones-293496

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — With the spotlight squarely on Roy Moore in the closing weeks of Alabama's Senate special election, a constellation of Democratic groups embarked on an under-the-radar effort to organize voters for candidate Doug Jones.

Despite publicly remaining mum on the race, the Democratic National Committee spent nearly $1 million on the contest while dispatching and funding 30 aides here, a party official told POLITICO. That push came just as Jones sought to distance himself from the national party and win over conservatives.


It was a politically delicate move. Jones’ detractors have tried painting him as a tool of the national party, so Democrats in Washington have tried treading carefully in order to avoid leaving too much of a footprint in a state where Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in over two decades. The effort paid off: Jones prevailed Tuesday.

But the DNC and other national Democrats have also come under fire from critics this year for their perceived lack of involvement in other special elections, so the committee has been eager to chip in.

[calimary]

21. VERY shrewd. And we haven't had shrewd maneuvering

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and/or strategizing like that in awhile. And we sure have been needing it!

[Demsrule86]

45. Ok...I forgive Move On for primarying Tim Ryan in Ohio.

I may even send them a donation. they did some heavy lifting in Alabama.

[zentrum]

22. As I understand it

…what made this happen were large numbers of ground troops in the African American community who went door to door in their own neighborhoods to TGOTV. It was not organized by anyone other than themselves. As being reported on NPR, the local Democratic Party had no or scarce local organization.

The DNC did give lots of money for ads, it's true. But it was the African American effort, walking and walking door to door, that did it.

Like to give credit where credit is due.

[Raster]

29. Thank you. I also understand the situation in Alabama this way...

... It was the African-American Community in Alabama, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN of the African-American Community, that really came into play. They organized, went door-to-door, stood up in churches and in general, spoke out LOUD AND CLEAR against a vitriolic, racist, bigoted pervert. Sure, the DNC game money for ads and other support, but put credit where credit is due: Just as the African-American Community stood firm and steadfast against tRump*, they also did the same against Moore*.

[zentrum]

34. There you go!

[vi5]

42. God, I really hope DNC money was used for more than ads...

....Our advertising strategies and our reliance on old forms of campaigning need to be shelved. Money should be get out the vote efforts.

I'll never forget the weekend before the 2016 election, being in my home state of New Jersey and seeing ad after ad after expensive ad being run on deep blue NY/NJ tv stations then going out to swing state PA and seeing nothing. The amount of money that was spent on those NY market media buys had to have been insane and were a colossal waste of money.

If we are going to continue relying on traditional advertising then it needs to be better managed. But overall we should be shifting money away from that and into ground game gotv efforts.

[Demsrule86]

46. It was used for more...money well spent. We won.

[zentrum]

52. Couldn't agree more.

The Repugs apparently have run a ground game door to door for many election cycles.

The DNC must start funding these efforts for our troops. There was a dearth of this in 2016.

[vi5]

58. A lot of criticisms are unfounded...

...but I think the one accurate criticism of Hillary was that she surrounded herself far too much with old-guard, old-media loyalists who were operating on one too many outdated assumptions about campaigning and where to spend money. I won't get into whether that was nefarious or naive (or maybe a combination of both) on her staff's part, but it was something we need to learn from and hopefully have at least based on the most recent elections..

[vi5]

41. Interesting....

I'm really curious how much the DNC was involved in the ground game.

I want to believe that we've turned the corner on spending insane amounts of money on well connected consultants and advertising agencies who do nothing but line their pockets while losing elections, and that we are now spending that money on get out the vote efforts as I've heard the DNC did in AL.

But I've seen no actual evidence other than some gloating threads giving all of the credit to the DNC. And maybe they did do what I hope they did.

[Demsrule86]

47. Some can never give the Democratic Party any credit but are free with blame always.

[ananda]

23. Stealth campaign on the premise that Dems ..

.. tend to lose elections that are nationalized?

I'm not sure how this election wasn't .. nationalized I mean.

???

[Demsrule86]

48. It wasn't. Consider the Georgia election.

This was smart. The DNC quietly worked on Jones' behalf.

[Blue_Tires]

26. +1

[Wounded Bear]

27. Here's one...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029974361

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — With the spotlight squarely on Roy Moore in the closing weeks of Alabama's Senate special election, a constellation of Democratic groups embarked on an under-the-radar effort to organize voters for candidate Doug Jones.

Despite publicly remaining mum on the race, the Democratic National Committee spent nearly $1 million on the contest while dispatching and funding 30 aides here, a party official told POLITICO. That push came just as Jones sought to distance himself from the national party and win over conservatives.

It was a politically delicate move. Jones’ detractors have tried painting him as a tool of the national party, so Democrats in Washington have tried treading carefully in order to avoid leaving too much of a footprint in a state where Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in over two decades. The effort paid off: Jones prevailed Tuesday.

But the DNC and other national Democrats have also come under fire from critics this year for their perceived lack of involvement in other special elections, so the committee has been eager to chip in.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/alabama-senate-democrats-jones-293496

[BannonsLiver]

30. It's pretty clear to me now what Perez is all about.

He's the guy behind the guy who gets shit done. Quietly. That works for me. I like people like that. Small minded people who only care about entertaining cable news segments and catchy sound bites are going to be disappointed.

[mcar]

33. And that's what he's supposed to do as DNC chair

Some people are a bit confused as to his role.

[Demsrule86]

49. I like folks like that too...they do the heavy lifting and are not running for a camera every two

minutes.

[Iggo]

32. Already miles ahead of DWS. (n/t)

[irisblue]

39. This is so.

Wondering how many tums DWS has eaten the last week?

[Demsrule86]

50. She wasn't good.

[Demsrule86]

51. This has been compared to the Scott Brown victory which heralded a Democratic wipe out in 10.

Here is hoping we have a Dem wave in 2018.

[Blue_true]

53. Perez is why we are doing well.

In Virginia, in races in most of the country and now in Alabama. Perez organizes locals quietly. Yes, we lost some early races while he got settled in, but his leadership has been quiet and damned amazing. He stays, period. I am looking forward to more success from his leadership.

[BannonsLiver]

54. Bernie also called for Franken to resign.

Should he go as well?

The folks who hate Perez are going to have to try harder. The results in Va. and Alabama are cutting into their narrative pretty badly.

[rogue emissary]

55. You haven't shown any evidence for many of these assertions.

What evidence do you have that Perez was the first Democrat to call for Franken to resign? I'd call this a lie but I don't know what you've seen that leads you to make this claim. it's interesting that Perez must step down. Yet you still display the avatar of Sanders who called for Franken to resign without due process.

It's still too early to say if Perez is right or wrong fit as DNC Chairman. There's been a lot of unexpected success under Perez's short term of service. Which makes me believes he's doing a good job.

[peggysue2]

57. This!

x 1000

btw, who benefits from this sort of thinking, finger-pointing and calls for resignation? Particularly for a DNC Chairman racking up remarkable successes. I was against the Franken pile-on/resignation but haven't seen anything indicating Perez the first one to step out and/or issue orders to the troops.

Can't we enjoy the Alabama moment for at least a short while???

[Demsrule86]

59. I am not pleased with asking Franken to step down which many know...but I don't advocate anyone

'goes' ....no primaries and no firings...we need to stick together. We won't always be happy about everything that is done by our people.

[peggysue2]

60. Yes to that, absolutely

Let's multiply the success rate, not shoot ourselves in the foot. 2018 will be here quicker than we know and the ground is shifting. For the country and Democrats. Hallelujah!

[rogue emissary]

61. Exactly, we should be celebrating this victory.

It's obvious that some people on the left aren't too happy that Jones won.

[MrsCoffee]

65. Derp.

[Blue_true]

43. S I L E N C E !!!!!! The narrative from yesterday didn't go the whiner's way. nt