Yes, Republicans seem to have all the polls going their way, but do they have a ground game? Will Democrats turn them back for lack of one? Might we come to the end of the night without a clear decision by the voters?
I wondered last month what to make of the Republican National Committee’s decision to cancel its traditional door-to-door program. Among those I spoke with was a vocal (in private) critic of RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who felt nonetheless that this had been the correct decision. Campaigns and state parties, he said, are far more capable of running get-out-the-vote operations. There was no reason for the RNC to pay for free vacations to Hawaii for Djou volunteers from Washington, D.C. — and that is the sort of thing they did in 2004.
