Politics is nose-counting in the main, and the GOP base has all their noses pointing towards the voting booths on election day. They make up 25% of the electorate that actually votes consistently.
Think about that.
You're a GOP candidate for president. You make sure to say all the right things about fetuses and Jesus. When you get out of bed on election day, you can already count on being halfway to victory; with the base on your side, you only need 26% of the national vote to win.
Bush & Co. didn't fall out of the sky. They were installed by the single most reliable voter base in the history of the universe (with a little nudge from the judge, of course).
So. Wear out some shoe leather. There are more of us than there are of them. If we out-body them, we win.
Dig this:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/58/18168Each volunteer was given a specific goal: so many doors per day, per week, per month. They wore out the shoe leather in Troy, Alstead, Swanzey, Keene, Dublin, Jaffrey, getting people to talk about what concerned them in the upcoming election. If people weren't registered, they explained how to register. They let people know that New Hampshire allows same-day voter registration, and if they wanted to, they could go down to their polling place on election day, register right there, and vote.
It worked. On election day 2004, Cheshire County saw the largest voter turnout in recent memory. Some 6,000 unregistered voters came out, people who had not been targeted by any other group because they were not on any voter roll. They registered, and they voted. Cheshire County went blue, and for only the third time since 1948, New Hampshire was won by a Democratic presidential candidate.One county.
Go go go.
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P.S. Telling fundies about Constantine and the Council of Nicea does a good number on their brains. "You mean Christmas isn't December 25th? There is no God!!!"
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