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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:12 PM
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So has anyone seen the GOP's GOTV so-called machine? anywhere?
Anyone?

I have not even heard of anything like this right here on planet earth, it is only on the MSM.

I have never ever seen or heard of any one person, any church, any neighbor, any relative, any co-workers, any entity who is part this highly touted STRONG operation?

What is it anyway? Have you ever seen them? or it? Do they have big 12 passenger vans? are they all painted with the same color? do they all have tinted windows? Do the people who work with them look like us? Do they have jobs doing anything else?

Where is the operation based? Does anyone know? Do they come out before election day? or do they just APPEAR on the day election day whenever that is? are they on the Internets at all? A website maybe?

I have been looking for them, I drove by churches, clubs, restaurants, convention centers, schools...etc. but I can't see any large groups of people practicing GOTV activities.

I have asked all my friends and family, all my righties co-workers, still nobody knows what I am talking about...

Can someone please help? post pictures if you have them, introduce me to someone who works there.........

Anyone?

But somehow, Leslie, Tweety, Rove, and all other pundits know about them/it...!!!

Confused
:shrug:
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:19 PM
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1. Swarms of them
They were up and down my street today, twice.
When I went to the grocery store they had EVERY entrace covered. I had to karate chop two of them to get by!
They are standing in intersections with their signs - "Vote Republican Or Die!"
It's hell out here. ;)
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populistdriven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:22 PM
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2. GOTV! It is easy and all it takes is an hour - I just finished 2hrs - give it a try!

GOTV! It is easy and all it takes is an hour - I just finished 2hrs - give it a try!

GOTV! http://pol.moveon.org/phone/volunteer/c4c.html
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:25 PM
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4. Are you kidding?? Did it really say that?? That could almost be
an encouragement to vote democrat. People are tired of the fear tactic. You should have thanked them for the signs.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:25 PM
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3. Rove claims it doesn't kick in until there are only 72 hours left
That is how he explained the fact that Democrats look like they are leading in the polls. All the polls except his own that is.
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Thickasabrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:26 PM
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5. He is saying that to encourage his poor base that there really
is a reason to vote....although we all know there isn't. Suckers will be so disappointed. It's almost sad.
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tblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:32 PM
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6. I'm sure they are paid, and paid well
I haven't stopped by my local evangelical pulpit lately, but maybe it's in there somewhere.

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Skarbrowe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:34 PM
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7. It's hard to see those "tabulator" flip voters. bwaaahaahaaa
Not trying to be flippant about your serious question, I just think that's where a whole hell of a lot of his last 72 hour voters are hiding.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:38 PM
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8. did you see it in 2004? i didnt. i did see tons of democrats waiting in lines
all around the country to vote though.

they dont need gotv because they have gstv (gonna steal the votes)
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:33 PM
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13. I was part of the GOTV effort in 2004, and no I did not see their's..
I was looking for sure...
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 06:07 PM
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20. of course you didnt. the anti bush gotv was massive in 04 only to be
rigged, scammed and stolen.
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-30-06 09:18 AM
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21. We lost Florida by 300K votes....I still can't understand that????/
Can't figure it out at all....
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:57 PM
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9. I didn't see them in 2004 either.
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 03:58 PM
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10. I'm with you, Nimrod2005. I think it's the "grand illusion."
It was Rove, I think, who said, after the 2004 election, when asked how they did it: "It was our invisible get-out-the-vote campaign in the churches." (Maybe it was Cheney.)

Dems swarming to the polls. A Dem blowout success in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40. But they have all these "invisible" voters.

We're gonna wake up from this dream some day, and wonder how we all could be so mind-fucked by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. (You notice the other day NBC--subsidiary of war profiteer GE--is laying off 700 people mostly in the "news" department? 'Mission accomplished.')

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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:04 PM
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11. Photographic evidence of GOP GOTV worker in action
They're hard to catch on film, as they're very shy nowdays:



When confronted around here, they usually deny working for the GOP, and profess to be a Libertarian. Don't let them fool you though. Actual Libertarians are as rare as bigfoot...




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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:28 PM
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12. HAHAHAH.... Libertarians..... when the moon is full.
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:34 PM
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14. Lol...Brilliant!!!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:35 PM
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15. LOL!
:rofl:
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:37 PM
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16. hmm. that's 3 days, so i guess rove is using the churches again. sunday
morning is exaclty 72 hours before the vote.
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:42 PM
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17. F\They actuall fo have a strong maching but
It is deigned to feed on social conservative fears around abortion...gay rights, stem stell, Intelligent Design. Where those issues are not on the ballot..... there is not rallying point.... Al they have is the Dems want to cut and run anwill raise your taces. It does not sell
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 04:44 PM
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18. Here's part of it ...
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-29-06 05:00 PM
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19. GOTV is the cover for Election Theft by the GOP
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-30-06 09:26 AM
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22. Their main GOTV effort is by mailing out Absentee Ballots to every member
Every single Republican receives in the mail an official Absentee Ballot. They don't have to get out anywhere. They vote from the comfort of their own home. Hell most of them have already voted so any ads by Democrats are null and void already. I fail to understand why so many DUers don't understand this...:shrug:
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