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Their plan<\/a>, organized under the name Battleground Texas<\/em>, is now being laid bear: “Battleground Texas will be a people based, metrics driven organization that is dedicated to the idea that volunteers, in their neighborhoods, can and do significantly impact local, state and national elections.<\/p>\n “As a people based organization, we are focused on leadership development, training and empowerment. We work with volunteer leaders to ensure they have all the skills they need to successfully recruit new volunteers and register, persuade and turnout voters.<\/p>\n “As a metrics driven organization, we understand the importance of accountability. We regularly measure our progress and hold ourselves to the goals we set. We also use data extensively to ensure our programs are having an impact.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is clearly building up on the efforts of Obama’s successful 2012 re-election and use of Narwhal<\/a> and the new media<\/a> to organize and mobilize voters.\u00a0 This is also a long term goal of theirs and they will happily invest decades if need be.\u00a0 This is a very real threat to Texas and the Republican party in general.\u00a0 Their attack directly on the electorate has been successful elsewhere, and will prove to be a threat in Texas as well:<\/p>\n “Over the next several years, Battleground Texas will focus on expanding the electorate by registering more voters \u2013 and, as importantly, mobilizing those Texans who are already registered but who have not been engaged in the democratic process. And we\u2019ll use the data-driven, people-focused approach that has helped win grassroots campaigns around the country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While this seems straightforward, it is far more revolutionary<\/a>:<\/p>\n “[T] he mechanics behind Organizing for Action\u2019s \u201cpeople based\u201d approach are at once simple and revolutionary. Bird\u2019s team has developed a five-point contact plan for identifying and courting low-information, low-frequency voters. These voters are average folks who pay little attention to politics and current events and have left no trail allowing either party to identify which party they\u2019re more likely to vote for. Bird\u2019s volunteers call these prospects and use a script to ascertain whether they are persuadable to the Democrats\u2019 point of view. Volunteers perform a \u201cgut check\u201d on the prospective voter, and these gut checks have proven to be accurate nearly 95% of the time. If the prospect is not identified as persuadable, then the volunteer files them away and does not call them again. But if the prospect appears to be persuadable, then the five-point plan comes into play. Volunteers will call the voter again, based on current events, to deliver information crafted to shape the prospect\u2019s beliefs. For instance, if a volunteer has identified a suburban Fort Worth mom as a persuadable Democratic voter based on social issues, Todd Akin\u2019s remarks on rape would have generated a second phone call. Richard Mourdock\u2019s comments would have generated a third. A fourth call may have focused on the ObamaCare birth control mandate, casting it as a service to women and casting opposition to it as a \u201cwar on women.\u201d The fifth call would have simply given the prospect information on where to vote. Job done. Someone who probably would not have voted at all has been processed over a few weeks into a likely Democratic voter. At the very least, they have become far less likely to vote for the party of Akin and Mourdock, who have been cast along with their party as villains. Obviously, none of the recent Democrats\u2019 remarks on rape that aired during Colorado\u2019s gun control debate would get any play at all in these calls. They are one-sided information streams, intended to create velocity on the way to creating a vote.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Moreover, “Battleground Texas” is just one in a ” network of advocacy and \u201cwatchdog\u201d groups like Texans for Public Justice, the Texas Freedom Network, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the Back to Basics PAC to pose as non-partisan while relentlessly attacking Republican officials and policies in the media.”\u00a0 Yet again, the Progressive Hydra<\/a> rears it’s tyrannophile heads.<\/p>\n Lest anyone dismiss this by thinking that Texas becoming a leftist oriented state is unrealistic, it should be remembered that at one time New England was a Republican Stronghold, and that California voted for a Republican in all but one election for President from 1948 to 1988).\u00a0 The threat is real.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas has the second largest Congressional delegation after California, and thus the second largest amount of electoral votes.\u00a0 Out of the four “big” states, only Texas has shown itself to be reliably “red” in both Gubernatorial and Presidential elections. As … Continue reading
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