Regardless of the results last Tuesday, the GOP still has a huge advantage in terms of infrastructure; better co-ordination up and down the party, better lists, professional staff etc. A lot of it has to do with the difference in parties (it's more profitable to be a 'professional' Repug than a pro Dem; they pay better, are more tightly wired into business to allow moving back and forth from the party to the business world and back, and, in general, approach the entire thing more professionally than we do (not even factoring the wishful (non) thinking of the professional Dems in DC (you know, the hapless bozos now trying to take credit for the 50 state strategy). We need to change this, take the whole process seriously, and negate this advantage. The HUGE money advantage is enough to combat, without having to fight tanks with cavalry.
Morgan in Austin, at Dkos, has a great diary on how it was to work on a campaign, with the ups and down, and ins and out, and haves and have nots, of working in the Dem sphere.
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