Putting Some Perspective On the Democrat Win in Wolfeboro, NH - Granite Grok

Putting Some Perspective On the Democrat Win in Wolfeboro, NH

polling-researchMuch has been made of a Democrat victory in a recent special election in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. A town that voted, not just for Trump but for just about every Republican on the ticket last November. A legislative State House seat flipped for the first time in forever. Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness, even though they have yet to win a single special congressional election?

Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness?

Probably not.

The epic inspirational “flip” in Wolfeboro was a 51% to 49% victory with 811 votes for the Democrat and 755 for the Republican. That’s 56 votes in a town that cast 4,395 ballots last November and only 1566 last week.

I think we can agree that Democrats tried a lot harder to find a win and got one. And that means something. It means they spent more money, for one thing.

The Committee to Elect House Democrats paid DC-based Blue Nation Strategies over $11,000.00 to help them win two New Hampshire House seats last week. Seats that pay the victors 100.00 a year.

Let America Vote, one of many left-wing voting rights front groups funneled $3500.00 into the Wolfeboro race 48 hours before the election, under cover of issue advocacy, in opposition to Republican supported SB 3-which pretends to close election law loopholes that let out-of-state voters cast ballots in the Granite State.

On the Republican side, the Carrol County Republican Committee made two $1000.00 disbursements to their guy, and the State Republican Committee spent $1000.00. I could find no expenditures to or by national groups for the GOP candidate.

The DC-based Let America Vote, run by Democrat Jason Kander, spent more money advocating a Democrat issue for the Wolfeboro race than the “Republican Party” spent on Matt Plache’s entire campaign.

The Democrats tried a lot harder. They found more ways to get money and issues into that race.

Now, for those less familiar, New Hampshire has 400 seats in its House chamber. Most candidates spend next to nothing to get elected. But the Democrats are desperate. So much so that this 56 vote win out of 1566 ballots has been spread all over the national media, minus many of those details. Perception matters. Democrats flip Republican seat in New Hampshire.

Blue Nation Strategies has it featured on their home page.

Meanwhile, Democrats have yet to win a congressional seat in a special election in 2017. No one is reporting that, are they? But Republicans need to be careful.

Having said all that, my point is this. Republicans need to be careful.

They won in 2010 after the Obama Wave election because the Tea Party appeared out nowhere to oppose Obama and Democrats. The GOP accepted that they were the only alternative then proceeded to do nothing valuable with that victory.

In 2016 Trump voters returned to the electoral fold and provided a momentum that gave Republicans the win despite waves of Republican opposing Trump. And while it is still early, the GOP appear poised to s**t where they each (again) and waste that momentum and the voters that gave it to them.

Trump voters probably sat out the race in Wolfeboro. They’ll sit out the 2018 Midterms too unless the GOP gets its head out of its ass and gives those people what they want. Backup. And something over which they can be enthusiastic.

Make them feel like you value their vote by supporting their interests.

That also means stop parroting Democrat party narratives and pandering to Democrat party priorities.

Go toe-to-toe with the left in every race because the perception matters.

And do what you say when you are running without making excuses. You’ll find voters will keep showing up to elect you.

Ignore that, and you’ll be relegated back to the minority where Democrats will ignore your priorities completely.

And they will.

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