As someone with basic political activist training, I'm still shaking my head in grim admiration of how brilliant this strategy is. Running the numbers, five million dollars and twenty-four hours are more than sufficient to throw five successive calls at ten million home phone numbers. I'll bet, with the economies of scale, you could do a hell of a lot better than that. Five million dollars nationwide is *nothing* in absolute terms to a campaign season which has easily cost *billions*; but if you've even convinced one out of every four of those voters attacked five times to mistakenly attack the Democrats, you've swung fifty-thousand votes in fifty battleground districts.
With House races likely to be decided by margins of thousands or even hundreds of votes, you just have to stand back and give the architects of this strategy their due.
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Date: 2006-11-06 07:23 am (UTC)With House races likely to be decided by margins of thousands or even hundreds of votes, you just have to stand back and give the architects of this strategy their due.