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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20936-2003Nov29.html2004 Is Now for Bush's Campaign
Early Advantage in Funds, Voters Sought
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Bush's campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.
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The Bush team hopes to build on techniques first employed in 2000 and honed in 2002 through what is called the "72-hour project," which is shorthand for mobilization operations during the final days before the election. Democrats acknowledge these techniques proved highly effective as a counter to their mobilization efforts in earlier campaigns.
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The RNC has set state-by-state goals for registering voters, based on a formula that attempts to determine Bush's maximum potential vote percentage, all with an eye toward turning states that he narrowly lost or won in 2000 into winners next year.
In Oregon, which Bush lost to Al Gore by about 7,000 votes in 2000, the national committee's goal is to register 45,000 GOP voters by next year, enough to provide a cushion in a close election.
OK. so what does all this mean. It means that we have to counter this with registering 45,000 oregonians, 30,000 new mexicans, etc. We have to get started on this or we're gonna lose. this election is about getting out your base, not getting repukes or indies to switch to us. I believe even indies are becoming more partisan in voting.
So we have to start registering voters..Target likely dems, college campuses, churches, anywhere. I am starting a DU group to get this done. If anyone wants in and wants to coordinate voter registration activites and keep track of new dems registered let me know. let's see what we can do as DU! We will all get registered in our towns to register voters, and each one of us will go after 100 unregistered dems.
Rock rockin it.
Let me know if you to help!
Yaron
ymiller@smcm.edu