New Hampshire Republicans have a turnout problem. When they turn out they win. In 2018 they didn’t, and the GOP lost. Everything but the Governor’s office. Virginia just suffered something similar but with a Democrat governor. But it didn’t need to be that way.
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The early autopsy suggests the State Republican Party in Virginia is wholly responsible. Either through indifference or incompetence, the loss of both houses of the legislature was due primarily to the significant number of seats that went unchallenged.
No Republican ran.
The State party did not or could not find people to run. I get a sneaking feeling that they felt confident; for some reason, it wouldn’t matter until it did.
Rule One. Challenge Democrats everywhere about everything.
Their ideas are stupid or illegal. But if you let them win, they will craft laws to make them legal and “stupid” no longer matters unless you can grind a complaint through the court system. Save yourselves the time and money. Elect Republicans. But to do that, they need to be on the ballot.
- The Virginia Republican Party failed to run candidates in fully one-quarter of Virginia senatorial races.
- The Republican Party also failed to contest twenty-three out of one hundred delegate races.
- The (Virginia) GOP played to not lose rather than to win.
- Republican ads stressed very few solid reasons to vote for the Republican candidates.
- No one is quite sure what the Republican Party stands for in Virginia.
- The Virginia Republican party website is formatted poorly
- Most candidates attempted to distance themselves from the current Republican president
- Republicans were outspent, but it is hard to raise money and manpower when the party does not have a clear direction and does not play to win.
- If more Democrats had been forced to defend their own seats and spend money on their own campaigns instead of helping other candidates, then more races would have gone to the Republicans.
Rule Two. Get separation. Define your opponent Define yourself. If voters can’t tell you apart what’s the point of showing up?
Locally, in New Hampshire, the left has gone all-in on finding ways to tax the crap out of you, your employer, and every place with which you do business. They have become the party of inconvenience. From energy to drinking straws they are obsessed with making everything harder to do or more expensive or both. And this meddling is the solution to every problem even real problems of which their focus is few but exponentially flawed.
Before you can stop any of that, you have to win elections. To win them, you have to have candidates worth voting for, a message that differentiates you, and a ground team from roots to tips all-in on supporting that message and those candidates.
We won’t all agree on who is a good candidate but they should be familiar with why we have constitutions and what they exist to do.
Virginia can retake its legislature. And so can New Hampshire. But you have to want it, and you have to fight for it. The Left isn’t going to give it back. You have to take it from them. To do that voters need candidates to vote for and a reason to vote for them.
Democrats are providing reasons to vote Republican but they need more. Create separation, then throw them the ball, and let them take you to victory.
