This is from the Fairfax GOP website.
My best guess is that hard GOP support in Northern Virginia tops off at 30%. Additional soft GOP support will generously add another 5%-10% in Arlington and Alexandria and upwards to 15% in Loudoun and Prince William. Elections are won and lost within the 20% who are independents.
With only a limited number of weekends before Election Day, instead of using the opportunity to talk to normal people about the upcoming election, the hardcore partisans of the Fairfax GOP is wasting an entire Saturday afternoon having a powwow to learn how to talk to normal people. Is this because hardcore partisans blowing smoke up each other’s butts and ranting in cathartic fashion to each other will win the independent vote? How out of touch.
Advantage: Democrats.
About Big Gipper
#1) Mr. Gipper: Since you are so concerned about a training seminar, I hope you were out walking on Saturday.
#2) Training seminars like this are important to teach folks who want to get more involved the tools necessary to be an effective grassroots organizer.
#3) What do you do besides blog to advance the Republican message to independents? (Blogging doesn’t really do that FYI.)
1. I walked and made phone calls from home.
2. Those training seminars are very important. I do not dispute that. As such, they must be held after 7:00pm on any day of the week. If it is 4:00pm – 7:00pm on a weekday, 9:00am – 7:00pm on a Saturday, or 12:00pm – 7:00pm on a Sunday, people need to be out in the streets knocking on doors. That is how campaigns spread the message to independents and win. I learned this from some of the best, most successful candidates in the business.
3. Blogging is a new thing for me. Unlike other activists who spend much of their free time with friends of like minds who validate their world views, pump sunshine in them, and give them a false sense of security about electoral success, I actually spend time with friends who do not think alike. I do it because I like them, not to change them. You have to reach people where they are and serve as a model for your beliefs. Persuasion is more effective when there is an established, trustworthy relationship.