eschatonblog.com - 11/1/2008
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Sean Quinn: We read the published comments from McCain spokespeople that argue the dialing/canvassing numbers are ahead of where they were at the same time four years ago. Well, either the Bush ground game of 2004 was the Big Myth, or those spokespeople are flat lying to reporters, who have ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/1/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
We hear a lot about the Obama campaign's
ground game. And in addition to the general perception...
that McCain's campaign is overmatched in this regard, word came out just yesterday that the McCain campaign has defunded much of its ground operation to make possible one last push on TV. But a short ...
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newshoggers.com - 10/31/2008
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newshoggers.com —
Sean Quinn at fivethirtyeight has a great post
up showing the demoralized ranks, or lack, of McCain's...
field office forces. A series of photos from around the country of various McCain campaign offices is simply grim. Except for Democrats. In that ...
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The Sideshow —
... Atrios says an odd thing here: "I've actually long thought, with no evidence, that the Bush ground game was in fact a Big Myth." I say it's odd because, though the Bush team (especially Rove) talked about the fabulous Bush ground game, no one ever saw any evidence that it existed. They weren't out there. Seasoned campaign workers went out looking for them and they just were not there. Rove created a story to "explain" the fact that Bush "won" in spite of the fact that all of the evidence said he suffered a humiliating defeat in 2004. ...
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