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NOTE: Pay attention to the topic of this thread. It is NOT about candidates for 08. It is about the Party and about you and me and the millions like us who really, deeply, give a shit.
It appears that our base was VERY charged up this cycle and that charge translated to a potentially generational power shift in Washington. Part and parcel of being charged up was the involvment of volunteers. Here in my purple county, the local county organization's ground game was the best, by several orders of magnitude, than I've seen in the 30 years I've lived here. And it paid off in wall to wall, top to bottom Democratic victories ... from county dogcatcher to US Senator.
I'd bet you saw the same thing in your area.
My concern is that a lot of what was manifested as volunteerism for the Party and the candidates may have been motivated by rage (or some other strong emotion) at the Republic Party dictatorship rather than an equally strong support for our candidates and our Party. I have absolutely no strong inclination to believe one case or the other with respect to the motivation.
My question today is ...... do you think the numbers of volunteers and the levels of their enthusiasm will hold together for the 08 cycle? Will our troops be ready to hit the ground as hard as they seem to have done this cycle?
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