Must read article at RealClearPolitics: A Lot Has To Change Quickly For Republicans To Have A Chance in 2024. Not what you want to hear, but you need to … AND TO “CHANGE QUICKLY” … if you don’t want 2024 to be a repeat of 2022 and 2020. Some highlights:
IGNORE THE POLLS because they grossly overstate GOP strength. Here is why:
Republican operatives … just assume that everyone knows their view of the news: that President Joe Biden is “cognitively challenged”; the economy is in decline; the border is flooded daily by undocumented immigrants; that crime is destroying the nation’s once great and revered cities; that the U.S. appears weak and unprepared for future aggressions by major foes. … But the average voter doesn’t [because of media and big-tech bias and censorship].
Polls asking voters about issues provide conservatives with the appearance that their issues are important to voters as well as the foibles of Democrats. But most issue-oriented polling questionnaires assume that their respondents are aware and have an opinion on the matter. And respondents rarely want to confess that they haven’t a clue. Put that same respondent in an unaided survey where they must articulate the issues of the day and one will find that those opinions on most issues dissolve into a mishmash of general concepts and less definitive answers.
So, while the NHGOP blithely assumes most parents have been closely following the parental rights issue, the reality is that most only know what WMUR, NHPR, etc. have told them, which is heavily biased in favor of the Communists … oh! Sorry! Meant “Democrats.”
ELECTIONS SINCE 2020 HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BALLOT-HARVESTING OR BALLOT-CHASING CONTESTS. The problem is that the GOP will NOT accept this reality:
The failure of the GOP to flood nursing homes, bingo halls, and mortuaries (OK, that one is a joke, of a sort) in search of voters willing to cast early ballots remains, as of today, unaddressed, And it really is an “existential threat” to the Republican leaders. They must come to understand that in our post-COVID era, the rules for who votes when and where, and under the aegis of “voter outreach,” has changed forever. Democrats know how to spend buckets of money to advance what could best be termed “selective democracy.” They know just how to bump against the line of what is allowed and what is not, should anyone with any authority and objectivity care.
While we do not have early voting in New Hampshire, there is no intelligent GOTV by the NHGOP. Sending a glossy mailer of Sun-King Sununu standing next to candidate-X is the equivalent of throwing money out the window, expect it’s worse than that … the money goes to some grifter operative.
There is a lot more to the article than I have highlighted. Definitely worth the few minutes it takes to read it.
