(Community Matters) I don’t believe the dismal forecasts. If polls were to be believed, President Obama would not be president. The field game we played during the election, defied forecasts. President Obama was elected with the highest margin for a first term president in a very long time – because of the field game.
We’re deploying that same approach in the 2010 elections – pouring DNC/OFA resources into contacting our 15 million first time voters from the 2008 election. We already know, when we make contact with them at their front doors and the President asks for their help preventing a return to the previous eight years . . . and when the Congressional candidates we’re supporting connect and we remind them to vote – preferably early vote – they will turn out, in margins sufficient to win their elections. I agree, a lot of ifs and ands. Good thing we built a 50 state grassroots campaign during these last 19 months. We will preserve both houses.
We’re pouring $50 million into Organizing for America’s field game, and we’ve already given millions to state parties.
No doubt we’ll lose seats – with few exceptions, the party in power loses about 18 House seats and 4 Senate seats every mid term. And, we’re facing extraordinary times, a great recession as we rescued America from the Bush era Great Depression. Yet, we’ll hold the House and Senate.
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How wistful, the 50 state strategy comment reminds me of Howard Dean.
I lost faith in Obama when he fired Dean.
As a never closeted gay man, I have been around cowards and apologists my entire life, and it is so tedious.