Thom Hartmann: The Religious Right Field Tests Plan for Beating Obama

[thomhartmann]

Adele Stan, Alternet, joins Thom Hartmann. The Right is field-testing a plan to beat President Obama - and the main character is Ralph Reed. For our viewers who don't know him - who is he - and what's he up to now?

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[worldbfree]

1. Banner ads?

That's it? Banner ads and some door knocking? I thought there were millions of dollars poured in to walkers campaign from outside the state & that they ran ads constantly.

[demwing]

2. You're not going to get Adele Stan's full message

from a 5 minute interview.

Here's the link to the article she wrote for Alternet:
http://www.alternet.org/story/156141/religious_right%27s_ralph_reed_field-tests_plan_for_beating_obama/

And some choice bits:

If you like what happened in Wisconsin, Reed implies, you're going to love the 2012 presidential race, when FFC reaches out to 27.1 million conservative voters; he promises that FFC will contact each of them between seven to 12 times to either get them to the polls, or better yet, vote early in states that permit it. Consider it payback, if you will, for the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.

Reed isn't in the business of persuasion; he doesn't waste his time on voters who aren't already on his team. His deal is to make sure those potential voters are first registered and then activated -- not unlike what the labor unions do in their get-out-the-vote campaigns (though likely with fewer billionaires to shell out for their efforts). This is where the winning margin in most elections actually resides, Reed explained at a strategy session during his conference. In fact, he suggests, the success of FFC's voter turnout operation accounted for why the polls that predicted a tight race between Walker and Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett in the Wisconsin recall election were so wrong.

Pollsters, he explained, work from a model of the electorate that is based on the previous election: X percentages of various demographic groups. Increase the percentage of any one of those demographic groups -- say Christian conservatives -- and the model on which the poll is based is no longer valid.

This year, consequently, Virginia is hardly a state Obama can take for granted. There, Reed said, FFC is building a file of 350,000 conservative households that will account for some 600,000 voters. In Florida, where Reed said Obama's 2008 margin of victory was 200,000 votes, Reed has set his sights on some 225,000 social conservatives who are not currently registered to vote, but who will be, if he has anything to say about it.

The question is not whether this will be effective - of course it will, common logic says it, and Wisconsin proves it. The question is whether Team Obama has anything in the works that will counter this new "micro targeted" style ground game.

[anon-y-moose]

3. again!

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The people behind the curtain are professionals.
(They know EXACTLY what they are doing!)
They are throwing nothing but fast balls!
All they need is swing a very few close key states.
GUESS WHAT? THEY WIN!
They already know how you will vote based on your demographic.

They are NOT interested in your opinion or vote, they already know


its that simple........