Christian Right Honcho Ralph Reed to the Rescue? How Clueless Romney Could Still Win
The left shouldn't underestimate Reed's billionaire-bankrolled right-wing voting machine.
September 25, 2012 |
The recent spate of Romney gaffes and big old screw-ups has elicited braying from the liberal punditry class , a number of whose members have declared the election over, adding “loser” to the resume of the successful businessman and not-so-successful former governor who bears the standard of the Republican Party in this year’s presidential election.
Not so fast. The truth is, national polls don’t amount to a hill of beans in this election. What counts is turnout and, as AlterNet reported in July , political operative and former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed is putting together an impressive get-out-the-vote operation, via his organization, Faith and Freedom Coalition, which funded by right-wing billionaires.
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"I founded Faith and Freedom Coalition because I vowed that as long as I was alive, we were never going to get out-hustled on the ground again," he said.
In Florida alone, Reed said, his organization had identified 200,000 unregistered conservative Christians, and FFC planned not only to sign them up, but to make sure they voted, even if they had to drive them to the polls himself.
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Thanks to: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/christian-right-rescue-how-clueless-romney-could-still-win
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