Terri
11-29-2003, 07:07 PM
2004 Is Now for Bush's Campaign
Early Advantage in Funds, Voters Sought
By Dan Balz and Mike Allen
Washington Post
November 30, 2003
President Bush's reelection team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grass-roots organizations of any modern presidential campaign, using enormous financial resources and lack of primary opposition to seize an early advantage over the Democrats in the battle to mobilize voters in 2004.
Bush's campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.
The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in a dozen-and-a-half states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.
More (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A20936-2003Nov29.html)
Quote[/b] ]The Bush team hopes to build on techniques first employed in 2000 and honed in 2002 through what is called the "72-hour project," which is shorthand for mobilization operations during the final days before the election. Democrats acknowledge these techniques proved highly effective as a counter to their mobilization efforts in earlier campaigns.
Colorado Republicans ran a 72 hour campaign in the 2002 election.
We won our 7th District House seat by less than 150 votes.
Allard won by a substantial margin when the polls were showing an almost dead heat.
The 72 hour get out the vote campaign is credited with both those wins.
This year it will be 96 hour campaign and I'm signed up to work it.
Early Advantage in Funds, Voters Sought
By Dan Balz and Mike Allen
Washington Post
November 30, 2003
President Bush's reelection team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grass-roots organizations of any modern presidential campaign, using enormous financial resources and lack of primary opposition to seize an early advantage over the Democrats in the battle to mobilize voters in 2004.
Bush's campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.
The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in a dozen-and-a-half states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.
More (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A20936-2003Nov29.html)
Quote[/b] ]The Bush team hopes to build on techniques first employed in 2000 and honed in 2002 through what is called the "72-hour project," which is shorthand for mobilization operations during the final days before the election. Democrats acknowledge these techniques proved highly effective as a counter to their mobilization efforts in earlier campaigns.
Colorado Republicans ran a 72 hour campaign in the 2002 election.
We won our 7th District House seat by less than 150 votes.
Allard won by a substantial margin when the polls were showing an almost dead heat.
The 72 hour get out the vote campaign is credited with both those wins.
This year it will be 96 hour campaign and I'm signed up to work it.