The Movement You Need…

I’ve been involved in so many political campaigns over the last two decades that I’ve lost count. The only hard-fast rule I have that works every time is this:

It never hurts to remind those who would vote for your opponent to vote…on Wednesday.

To translate, the most proven political trick in the book is to deceive your opponent’s supporters into believing that the cause is lost, or that their turning out would be for naught. Of late, the Rube Goldberg machine being concocted by the Mainstream Media and the Sorosian left has been cranking out scenarios specifically targeted at depressing turnout of both conservative Republicans and conservative independent voters. Usually this doesn’t work when these groups are targeted. In my experience, GOP voters and those registered as “no party affiliation” are less likely to go to the polls uninformed.

On the other hand, there are places in which registered Democrats will vote based solely on the content of the palm card they’re given by their precinct leaders. I know of no area of this nation in which Republicans think so little of their fellows that they’d take them for such mindless lemmings.

No, I’m not saying “all Democrats are stupid.” I’m saying “there is a greater propensity for registered Democrats to go to the polls in a clueless state of mind.” And I’d bet you dollars to donuts if we ran an experiment by mailing “remember to vote Wednesday” cards to every registered voter in America, there would a lot of Democrats that would show up at the polls the day after the election and relatively few others.

So I won’t take the bait that the GOP cause is lost, even though I think the GOP isn’t acting in my best interests right now. I’m going to vote…early vote in fact. But there are a couple of races I’m going to skip because I just won’t be able to forgive myself if I vote for a sure-to-win candidate whom I believe will be a disaster once elected. No, I won’t name names. Let’s just say that there are going to be a couple of undervotes near the top of my ballot. I’m tired of holding my nose in the voting booth.

Us political consultants look curiously at undervotes. If enough registered Republicans were to selectively skip voting for safe GOP candidates, then cast votes only in those races that appear close, it would prove a point…and it would be noticed. And we wouldn’t have to gift-wrap the speakership for Nancy Pelosi in the process.