Good article: Not much snark, instead they concentrate on what to do next time in Ohio to get more Dem votes.
Herding Democrats in Southeast Ohio
They're there. Chris Redfern thinks he can find them
By Steve Hoffman, Beacon Journal editorial writer
One of the most fascinating anecdotes I heard about the 2004 presidential race in Ohio came from a Summit County government employee with a long background working on political campaigns. The employee, a Democrat, happened to be driving through Southeast Ohio just before Election Day.
Because of the hilly terrain, each small town has its own radio station. As she clicked from one station to the next, this political pro's ears were tuned not to the news, sports and weather, but to the political ads. In each town, she said, the messages seemed to be microtargeted to the Bush campaign's advantage, whether it was guns, God or gays.
The strategy, assisted by a get-out-the-vote drive that reached into the countryside, helped George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio, giving the Republican president the electoral votes he needed for a second term.
The story came to mind during Chris Redfern's recent speech to the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. The institute stresses the nuts and bolts of political organization, and that was the crux of the new Ohio Democratic Party chairman's remarks. Bliss, who chaired the Summit County, Ohio and national Republican parties, was said to have counted bathrooms at convention halls before booking.
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