Bush reelection team looking to register 3 million voters [scary stuff]

[truthisfreedom]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/30/bush_reelection_team_looking_to_register_3_million_voters/

Bush reelection team looking to register 3 million voters

By Dan Balz and Mike Allen, Washington Post, 11/30/2003

President Bush's reelection team, anticipating another close election, has begun to assemble one of the largest grass-roots organizations of any modern presidential campaign, using enormous financial resources and lack of primary opposition to seize an early advantage over the Democrats in the battle to mobilize voters in 2004.

Bush's campaign website already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. The campaign has set county vote targets in some states and has begun training thousands of volunteers who will recruit an army of door-to-door canvassers for the final days of the election next November.

The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in 18 states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.

"I've never seen grass roots like this," said a veteran GOP operative in one of the battleground states.

Dean, a former governor of Vermont, has made major strides in organizing a grass-roots campaign in a bid for his party's nomination. His advisers say it is the largest in the history of presidential politics.

While saying he is not familiar with all the details of Dean's grass-roots and Internet efforts, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman said, "Our goal is for the largest grass-roots effort ever."

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scary.


© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.

[Changenow]

1. "complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee "

Aren't there laws about that, oh, nevermind.

[SemperEadem]

40. oooh, another lie by Bush...

he means to switch the paperwork and they'll find they've just signed up for a tour of duty in Iraq...

[StClone]

2. Right

Convincing people to vote for hell on Earth will take a monumental effort. Scary. Not really.

[PaDUer]

3. Let them do what they want...

the registered R's aren't too happy these days w/ them...Last nite I was checking out at the grocery store and the topic of conversation was politics, of course. I find out that the checker is a registered R, 18yr old guy. I brought up the upcoming draft in 2005. This guy said he's NOT voting for him the next time and neither is his family because of what he's done. I told him THANK YOU, and be sure to tell his friends, family, and whoever else, what I just discussd with him. And, with the way things are going now and especially after the phony turkey day dinner, people aren't as stupid.

[Bozola]

4. now, then, of course....

register 3 million new Republican voters

is not the same as saying that they'll find 3 million people who will vote republican, but that they will have on paper added 3 million republicans.

[expatriot]

21. I am telling you, good ol' volunteerism is where we will beat these R's...

In order to sign up these 3 million new R's, quite a lot of W's warchest will go to PAY people to register new voters whereas we will be doing it for free... just because we want to save this country.

[Bozola]

35. No, no, no....that's not what I meant

Considering their history of fabricating votes, I seriously doubt that these "voters" will be actual people.

I expect them to "vote the cemetery" or fabricate identities to achieve this.

[cosmicdot]

5. the obligatory: what do they mean by "reelection"?

n/t

[girl gone mad]

6. Uh...when it works from the top down,

that isn't "grass roots".

[stevedeshazer]

18. astroturf n/t

[bemildred]

7. Grass roots my ass.

Paid mercenaries is more like it.

[wryter2000]

8. Spin

The more I read about this, the more I'm convinced it's no more than spin to counter the remarkable real grassroots successes of some of our candidates. Imho, they're blowing smoke. They've lost lots of people who voted for * in 2000, and they know it.

[TXDemGal]

29. Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner! n/t

n/t

[goforit]

30. Yes ........But let us take the challange!!!....Let's match and surpass!!!

They just may have planted the best idea we DEMS
can challange!!!!

This is where unity can gather strength.
This will be our exercise in becoming forthright.


Let us just GO FOR IT!!!!!

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[aquart]

9. "Thousands of volunteers"?

I wonder how much they get paid per completed registration?

[xxqqqzme]

38. during the recall,

rethugs were paying $8 per rethug registrant. $9 if the zip code was a dem district!

[teryang]

10. I suspect that the registrations will take place

...in assisted living facilities among the aged, the neglected, the infirm and those of unsound mind. The repukes will fill out the registrations and ballots for them.

[jsw_81]

11. Bush's army of voters

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. he will need a hell of a lot more than that!

registered party memebers in US
39 million registered dems
29 registered repugs

[54anickel]

25. Ha, You did mean 29 million repugs, didn't you? Freudian slip?

:hi:

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Scary it may be...

if it works, but they seem a bit late in this get out the vote drive.

Democrats, and their supporters, have been doing it for years. This is, after all, democracy in action, and it just means we have to work harder in out own voter registration drives.

The Dixie Chicks, btw, just gave $100,000 to Rock the Vote, and last month Springsteen told a stadium full of people to impeach Shrub.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=19029

Hit the streets, be proud to be an American in opposition to the thugs, and don't let them claim they invented voting, too.

[calimary]

32. One of the hip-hop stars has vowed to register FOUR million voters -

against bush.

So THERE!!

[Lefty48197]

14. Let's all volunteer to help sign people up

Be sure to have them send you lots of blank voter registration applications. Let them know which heavily Republican areas you will be covering, so that they won't need to go there.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. That's assuming the NeoCons will allow elections to take place in 2004.

[devinsgram]

16. That doesn't mean they

will vote for him.

[ithacan]

17. they're near maxed out and they're desperate

this is a pure sign of desperation and I don't think it'll work.

They've already politicized all the "christian" fundamentalist churches and I am not sure they will have that large of a pool of people to be registered who are not already. And the fundies especially are a minority in this country. Is this a ploy to cover up what will be huge numbers of fraudulent votes registered in Diebold machines?

This is just one more sign of desperation; they know they cannot win a free and fair election.

[4dsc]

19. Democrat's should be doing the same

if not more. i ask my local democratic party if they had any plans last summer, and of course they stated we'll do NEXT year.. I volunteered to go canvasing and haven't heard a word back..

[Ramsey]

20. We are doing the same thing

We should all be advocating the efforts of groups like MoveOn, and in particular America Coming Together. ACT is a massive get out the vote effort by numerous progressive organizations. Give your money or give your time. They are going to make a difference.

http://www.americacomingtogether.com/

[Fridays Child]

22. This is our antidote to the bush plague. Soros gave 10 mil to ACT...

...and we'd better support them too.

[goforit]

31. Roll up our sleeves and start scooping up the mud DUrs......

The Challange is on and
We can achieve .....at all costs!!!

[DeathvadeR]

23. I ain't scared ah no gops. n/t

Don't worry, george will never retain his throne.

[young_at_heart]

24. The Pod People are taking over

Yes..........it IS scary!!!

[schultzee]

26. Yea, and we need to be doing the same!

[schultzee]

28. G.O.P. now stands for GREEDY OLD PIGS.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

27. The GOP will probably be able to register 3 million voters in Florida's...

...cemeteries.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

33. THIS is SO TRUE!!

I get it-
The pukes can just let everyone know they've signed up 3 million even if they've signed up just 1.

-Then, they may not even have to come up with 3 million ficticious "names"--- no one will check up on it anyway.
then just get Deibold to press all the rest of the buttons so these new
"recruits" don't have to actually show up at the polls and the STRANGE election results won't even be questioned.

[drfemoe]

34. An email message ..

If you haven't gotten this on your mail lists yet you will. Someone is
sending around news that bush has 6,000,000 volunteers and so much money
that the dems have no chance. This is bullshit and here's why. First, more
than  likely the 6 mill figure is from everyone who has ever contacted the
white house. I believe it's totally bogus. You're welcome to believe Rove is
telling the truth. Your call. Second, remember the electoral college? That
thing that screwed us in 2000? Here's how it works. They can have every
single resident of, say, Mississippi vote for bush and it doesn't get them 1
more electoral vote. Not 1. What this is is simply more of the conservative
doctrine of inevitability. They merely wish to make us give up hope. This
"leak" should be seen for what it really is, a sign that they are scared.
Ignore this 6 million crap and get back to work. Being afraid of their
numbers doesn't help us one bit. Peace.

(I didn't write this ... FWIW)

[Arugula Latte]

37. right

They allegedly have an e-mail list of 6 million "morans." That's a far cry from having 6 million people sign up on their web site.

[CounterCoulter]

36. This has Ralph Reed's finger prints

...all over it. If anyone knows anything about Ralph Reed, this kind of hyperbole with numbers has his name written all over it. I bet the Busch Kampagne doesn't even approach 500,000 new registrants.

[phillybri]

39. So let's register 4 million....How many people have YOU gotten registered?

I've gotten 3 new voters registered thusfar....Everyone else, it's time to step up...