Democrats At The Door
Flexing a little off-season grassroots muscle, Democrats are going door-to-door this week surveying South Carolina residents on their impressions of Gov. Mark Sanford.
Multiple sources have now confirmed receiving these unannounced political visits, usually around dinnertime.
“Do you feel better off or worse off under Governor Sanford?” the surveyors ask, before launching into a list of pre-approved anti-GOP talking points.
Obviously, this is less of a scientific survey than it is a propaganda dissemination/ recruitment strategy, but it should absolutely scare the crap out of “Republicans,” who have basically taken South Carolina for granted over the past two decades.
Seriously, if Dems are aggressively working the whole “one-neighborhood-at-a-time” approach this far ahead of the next election cycle, it shows they are committed to a long-term voter ID and turnout program.
Also interesting? These are all suburban white neighborhoods we’re hearing from, which would mean S.C. Dems aren’t relying exclusively on the O-Wave as they step up their grassroots efforts.
Comments
By UpYers on June 10th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Maw! Fetch tha shootin’ iron – them carpetbaggin’ revenuers are a comin’ up tha road!
By CNSYD on June 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Not suprising. Sanfraud will cost Republicans just as Bush cost them nationally. I remain convinced that many of the votes that Obama got were votes against Bush and he wasn’t even running.
By true dat! on June 10th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
CNSYD: i agree completely with you. since sanford was elected, i have voted against any republican that aligned him or herself with the governor. he will cost any republican in SC (such as Haley) that is connected to him.
By Cindy on June 10th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
.We Republicans have squandered our right to be the majority party. Soon, in this state, we will lose that status.
Obama, Black empowerment, white middle class resentment over the failures of the SC Gop, and the ability for RINOs to switch back without fear of losing their jobs will all contribute to our demise.
We did, and are doing it to ourselves. We have no one to blame. We elected any fool that said he was a Republican, and could hold a bible and sing along with the national anthem. Now the proof of the inability to govern is in the awful job those elected officials have done.
Our only hope is that Carol Fowler and Company are near idiots. Let’s pray they are dumber than we think
By The other side on June 10th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I vote against any RINO who does not believe in small government & fiscal responsibility like Sanford does.
By CNSYD on June 10th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
The other side, haven’t you got it yet? Sanfraud only believes in Sanfraud. Every utterance is a pearl of wisdom in his mind. Based on your criteria I would imagine you pull very few levers.
By Jamie Sanderson on June 10th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Get ready. There’s more to come. GOP lovers beware. The state isn’t owned by your ideology.
By BIN News Editorial Staff on June 10th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Looks like sic(k) willie has done his own little survey of sanfraud.
And the answer is: worse. By an overwhelming majority.
By charlotte watchdog on June 11th, 2009 at 7:58 am
FITS:
Word has reached us in Charlotte that a certain GOP political consultant from Columbia was in the Upstate on Monday training democrats on the evils of Howard Rich money given to certain GOP candidates. I am surprised that this word had not already reached you. It was a public meeting.
The dems are preparing and with a fractured GOP controlled by the far right, 2010 could be very interesting.
CW
By lou on June 11th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Here’s an impression for them: HORRIBLE GOVERNOR> mean, hates his constituents, loves and is in bed with big business. Not a libertarian… more of an old time Soviet Socialist.