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Data That Helps Explain The Election: 68 million v. 30 million
At the National Press Club on Wednesday, RNC chairman Mike Duncan crowed about how the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign had contacted 30 million individual voters directly.  (This figure includes those robocalls.) Impressive. But the Obama campaign / Democratic ...
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Those Robocalls Weren't GOTV
Eschaton — If by "robocalls" Ambinder is referring to are the slime calls, then it's pretty clear that McCain didn't have any GOTV operation at all. ...

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