Joe Walsh: spent $70 per voter, cried self to sleep

[kishmet]

If money “buys” a vote for a candidate, then ultimately the tens of millions of dollars poured into Illinois congressional races - contributing to the cynical and negative ads consuming Chicago’s airwaves for months - failed to pay off

Comments

[booksforlunch]

"And Walsh sank even more effort into this race than these articles let on. At the polling place where I worked we had a poll watcher for Walsh who wrote down the names of literally every voter who came through, then went into another room, compared them to registered Republicans in the county, and called those who hadn't shown up yet."

D: I don't know American laws, but that sounds an awful lot like influencing voters (not voting is, after all, a viable option for anyone.)

Also: I hope that they got a lot of flack from the people they called. Because otherwise the tea party voters have shown a remarkable taste for being herded like sheep for people who harp on about self-government and being left alone by intrusive authorities.

[thenakedcat]

Who has voted is a matter of public record--I worked on the Obama campaign in Colorado, where there is LOTS of early voting. Every day during the voting period, the district organizers would get a list of voters who had come in for early voting or whose mail-in ballots had been received. Those names would be struck off our masterlist of registered voters and our Get Out The Vote efforts would be applied only to registered Democrats or Dem-leaning voters who had yet to cast a ballot. In CO, the fact that casting a ballot stops both campaigns from calling you is considered a HUGE benefit of voting early.

[fenris_lorsrai]

Yup. This is the party "machine" that gets referred to. who voted is public record so they'll call whoever hasn't voted and MAY arrange rides for people without transportation as well. My mother remembers doping this for campaigns back in the 1960s. so yeah, nothing new.

[wrestlingdog]

[atomic_joe2]

I loved Trump's Twitter meltdown. Apparently the USA isn't democratic because they didn't let the Republicans win.

[wrestlingdog]

IKR? The schadenfreude is giving me life.

[crossfire]

I'm not usually given to gloating but Trump's tears are just so sweet I can't help myself.

[atomic_joe2]

What a bargain! Is this included in the $1 billion losing campaign bill?

[moonbladem]

Yeah, no sympathy for Joe Walsh. Total jerk. I'm glad Tammy Duckworth won.

I'm also really happy that Akin and Mourdock lost. Suck it, horrible people.

[sunktheglow]

[celtic_thistle]

I'm super excited for Tammy Duckworth. She is an awesome woman AND she mopped the floor with that fucking douchetrombone in every possible way. :')

[bestdaywelived]

Joe Walsh would have done better staying the fuck home and using that cash to support the children he owes over $100k in back support to.