The Virginia GOP finally mobilized at the grassroots level
on Saturday as its so-called “Super Saturday blitz” attempted to bring out
volunteers to knock on doors and canvass voters, a response to the intense
Democratic Party grassroots effort in Virginia.[1]
As an example, in Fairfax 120 Republicans braved the 106
degree Fahrenheit heat to knock on the doors of voters.
The Virginia GOP has a lot of grassroots work to do however
to make up for the intensive Democratic Party effort to energize their voters,
hold voter registration drives, make calls, and knock on doors that has been occurring
for months.
The Democratic Party has essentially committed itself to the
“ground game,” believing that the Republican Party and its wealthy contributors
would be too great to approach from the financial angle.[2]
Thus, the Democratic Party has taken a truly democratic approach to winning
electoral victories while the Republican Party has cemented its image as the
party of, by, and for the super wealthy of the U.S.
It remains to be seen whether or not the Republican
presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, can continue to energize the Republican
Party’s base.[3] If
the conservative base does stay active in the fall campaigns, it will likely be
more a consequence of their dislike of President Obama’s policies rather than enthusiasm
for their own political party’s presidential candidate.
At this early stage of the presidential contest, it appears
that more Democrats are energized for the presidential election than
Republicans.[4] As
always, though, the tide can swiftly turn in the other direction at any moment.
Nothing is more telling about what the Republican Party is
really about, however, than their late start on the grassroots front. When you
have a small group of super wealthy donors, after all, who needs “the people?”
The Republican Party has realized that money can’t buy everything, at least not
yet.
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