GOP trails Democrats in getting campaign boots on the ground

[Judi Lynn]

GOP trails Democrats in getting campaign boots on the ground
NICHOLAS RICCARDI
LAS VEGAS — The Associated Press

Published Saturday, Sep. 22 2012, 5:06 PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Sep. 22 2012, 5:18 PM EDT

Richard and Jessi Constantine were alone recently as they wheeled their one-year-old son in a stroller around a Las Vegas subdivision, knocking on doors to promote Mitt Romney’s candidacy. Yet legions of volunteers working to re-elect President Barack Obama are a pervasive presence in the state.

In one office park on the eastern end of the metropolis, dozens of union members fanned out to canvass for Obama and Democratic campaigns. To the north, members of the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union emerged from their union hall for their daily door-knocks on the incumbent’s behalf.

In Obama campaign offices to the northwest and north, throngs of workers and volunteers heard rousing speeches from San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to fire them up before they hit the streets to register new voters and argue the President’s case to undecided ones.

The Obama campaign’s dominance of the ground game – the volunteer-driven nuts and bolts of electioneering that ranges from registration drives to door-to-door canvassing – contributed mightily to his 2008 victory. His campaign is banking on its advantage on the ground, assisted by a new array of digital innovations, to deliver victory once again.

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1. I've wondered if all that dirty GOP pac $ was going to ads only or

if they were organizing on the ground. That will be the difference, of course.

[CTyankee]

4. Who the hell are they going to organize?

[RBInMaine]

2. Count in 25 sets of boots in my town and hundreds more throughout my state today.

Massive canvassing all over Maine today. I was one of them, again. EVERYONE needs to be on the phones or on the ground.

[cheezmaka]

3. The same here in MI

EVERYONE is excited!!! We want to help put a nail in the coffin of Romney's Campaign!