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Depressing.
INSTAPUTZ —
These photos at Nate Silver's of McSame headquarters in battleground states are pathetic. I mean, really pathetic.
Ground Game
Eschaton —
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 no context to challenge those claims because they haven't seen the empty offices the way we have. I've actually long thought, with no evidence, that the Bush ground game was in fact a Big Myth.
Air and Field with Budget constraints
Newshoggers.com —
... Sean Quinn at 538 documented his observations of the Obama and McCain field campaigns over the past couple of months. Obama's offices were filled and busy in every state. Most McCain offices did not have enough people to play cribbage. ...
GOTV Ground Game Gone
Newshoggers.com —
... 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 case, you're probably smiling at the wreckage of a campaign that appears to have no ground game, no volunteers, and is now going to rely solely on television adverts in the final weekend. So much so, that the McCain team has told volunteers that they are on their own. ...
Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... . * Fivethirtyeight has an interesting photo montage of McCain campaign field offices. * Depending on how things go next week, we're likely to hear a lot more from a guy named ...
Around blogtopia
WTF Is It Now?!? —
y!sctp! Bob Geiger with the Saturday toons! Why this political theatre is an American tragedy. What Faded said! "Heh times a thousand" indeed. The big empty: heartwarming pics of McSame headquarters in battleground states. Bustednuckles reminds us all why its is so important to vote. Cute but cruel. : ) Prolly the best headline ever explaining Joe the dickhead's absence at the McNuts rally the ...
Fragments From Teh Couch-And-Leftover-Halloween-Candy Project*
Sadly, No! —
... field organization crossed a huge threshold and began reaching more than one million voters per day, and by week’s end will have contacted more than 5 million voters. Our phone centers are full and our rate of voter contact is significantly out-pacing the Bush campaign in 2004. We have the resources to do the voter contact necessary to support the surge we are seeing in our polling with old fashioned grassroots outreach.
The Big Empty
Friday, October 31, 2008
As the only reporter during this ...
FiveThirtyEight.Com: More Than Just Numbers
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That's from a recent post called, "The Big Empty," and its accompanying photo essay could be the sorts of pictures that haunt the McCain campaign in a few days. ...
FiveThirtyEight.Com: More Than Just Numbers
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... That's from a recent post called, "The Big Empty," and its accompanying photo essay could be the sorts of pictures that haunt the McCain campaign in a few days. ...
Mitchell Bard: Who Would Be a Better President? I Say, Who Ran a Better Campaign?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... but without a well-organized campaign, Obama would not have been able to turn that enthusiasm into millions of small donations. Second, even with a money advantage, Obama's campaign was leaner and meaner than McCain's. Of the 10 highest-paid campaign employees, seven of the 10 work for McCain, including the three highest earners. At a time of economic crisis, the ability to work efficiently is essential, and Obama has proven he can do it.
Sean Quinn at fivethirtyeight.com did an excellent job of discussing the strength of the Obama "ground game." ...
Daily Digest: Partying Like It's 11/04/08
techPresident —
... . Nick: "There is apparently not a single prominent person who supports John McCain's technology policies and is confident enough to go out there and debate in favor of them." Not to pile on, but maybe Doug was needed to answer phones; FiveThirtyEight's Sean Quinn has a striking pictorial spread showing how ghost-townish local McCain HQs are across the country. ...
Ground Game
The Talent Show —
... Given this lack of local campaign opportunities and a screening process to even volunteer, is it any wonder that McCain/Palin campaign offices around the country are empty? ...
Ground Game
This Modern World —
... even before you fill out the form, you’re told : If selected , you will be volunteering on behalf of McCain-Palin 2008. . . . If accepted , you will be required to arrange your own transportation to the deployment city. You will not be reimbursed for your transportation, but may spend no more than $1,000 of your personal funds due to federal campaign finance regulations. Given this lack of local campaign opportunities and a screening process to even volunteer, is it any wonder that McCain/Palin campaign offices around the country are empty? Offices in Troy, Ohio were closed ...
The Nominations & The Underbrush
The Monkey Cage —
... again as well as this 538.com post. This particular aspect of campaign strategy may have been one important link between the two stages of this presidential election. ...
VA-Sen: Fifth Pollster Shows Big Deeds Gap
Swing State Project —
... Sadly, this reminds me all too well of Sean Quinn's regular dispatches about dark or nearly empty McCain HQs around the nation last year. Sigh. ...
