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What Happened to GOTV?
So, here we are, almost two fucking weeks after that fucking election, and I’m still waiting for anyone on the blue team to explain not only why we lost, but in particular why we lost do badly in the so-called battleground states.
And if I hear one more Democrat who won a seat in Congress say that he or she doesn’t want to ‘point fingers’ at anyone connected to the Harris-Walz campaign, I might even be tempted in 2026 to vote for the GOP although please don’t take me seriously when I say something like that.
Within a week after Kamala replaced Joe at the head of the blue ticket, all I kept hearing about was how much money was pouring into the blue campaign, and how some thirty million people had signed up to do volunteer work over the next three months.
Thirty million people? Seriously, thirty million?
Back in 2020, Trump went around saying that he had an ‘army’ of fifty thousand ready to get out the vote and then patrol all the voting places to make sure that the count went right.
Want to compare fifty thousand to thirty million? Go right ahead.
And while you’re at it, don’t forget to recall the gazillion fundraising solicitations I received from Kamala asking, no begging me to send in enough dough to cover the costs of getting those thirty million volunteers out into the field.
Now you would think that a ground game for a national election would focus on the states which were considered states that neither side could…