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To: bearshark who wrote (15388)	11/6/2003 10:10:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793607

The Democrats have always done a better "grassroots" campaign up to now. "Polipundit" BTW, it is amazing how many good blogs are run by conservative law Professors. ______________________________________ Get-Out-The-Vote The Republican ground game in Tuesday's elections was magnificent: One area that's bound to gain national attention is the get-out-the-vote operation. [Republican Mississippi gubernatorial candidate] Mr. Barbour's campaign had thousands of volunteers knock on 230,000 doors on Friday, Saturday and Monday before the election. And Mr. Barbour said they used the president's visits to the northern and southern tips of the state this weekend to energize those volunteers. "There's no doubt over the last 10 days we focused almost exclusively on energizing and activating our volunteer base," Mr. Barbour said. Observers said it worked like magic. "Whatever he did in that 72 hours — if you can bottle it, you can sell it," [analyst] Mr. Wiseman said. "I had a guy tell me it looked like trick-or-treat" with all the volunteers going door to door. "Bottling it and selling it" is what Republican heroine Blaise Hazelwood has been doing with the RNC's 72-Hour Get-Out-The-Vote Task Force that has yielded wonderful results in 2002 and 2003. The lessons learned in Kentucky and Mississippi will be put to good use in 2004. 230,000 doors knocked on! To put that in perspective, Barbour won a total of 441,188 votes. His margin of victory was 62,928 votes. The Barbour campaign had so many volunteers going door to door and manning phone banks that they were actually turning potential volunteers away! polipundit.com