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not just phone banking

mitch2k2 — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:57:19 GMT

...I should add that there's going to be lots of door to door GOTV as well.

thanks for the update

jackdawkins — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:55:06 GMT

On the ground

mitch2k2 — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:54:46 GMT

There's going to be a huge GOTV push this weekend, with phone-banking going on from real human beings targeting exactly the folks who we need to get out to vote on Tuesday.

It's going to be VERY close

RandySF — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:51:07 GMT

But I have been picking up hints of pessimism on the part of Republicans.

on push-polls

mitch2k2 — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:50:32 GMT

While I've been bombarded with robo-calls from W, freedom's watch, Davis, etc. I've yet to be polled a single time, push or otherwise.

More Republican Polling

stebu — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:48:10 GMT

My instinct is that they have been doing a day-to-day tracking poll as they also all seem to be for $4,400 if memory serves so doing like the 300 people per day and taking a moving 3-day average thing. Partly because it is hard to believe that we have not heard of any push-polling going on and we have Trent Thompson on the ground. The huge media buy kinda worries me as if I am correct about the tracking poll theory, the trend may have turned and so they see a chance for a come-back at the finish line with this final money push
Wow I hope I am wrong and will certainly do my part and help out with some virtual phone banking. I tried to find a place to do it with the LA-6 race but couldn't find it anywhere.

Politico: Childers still has edge

RandySF — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:42:45 GMT

Politico

The Republican is running neck-and-neck with Democrat Travis Childers. Most GOP members, aides and operatives acknowledge that the most recent polling suggests Childers has a slight edge in a predominantly Republican seat, and that those numbers remain unchanged despite heavy adverstising by both sides.

... has until Monday to make a decision

stebu — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:42:25 GMT

What exactly can they do?
Republican Leadership: You have until Monday to make a decision

Monday comes around...

Republican Leadership: Vito, what is your decision?
Vito Fossella: I haven't made up my mind yet.
Republican Leadership: Vito, you have until Friday to make a decision

I don't get it.

UPDATE: Fossella Back in NY

RandySF — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:38:28 GMT

Staten Island Advance

Rep. Vito Fossella quietly returned to Staten Island today to a bleak political and personal landscape.
A Fossella fund-raiser planned for today at the Staten Island home of John Alexander, chairman and CEO of Northfield Bank, was canceled. Fossella, meanwhile, was secluded with family members pondering his next step.
The 43-year-old Republican congressman is not expected to make any announcements or statements over the weekend -- putting an end, at least temporarily, to speculation that Fossella's resignation was imminent.
But GOP leaders have reportedly given him until Monday to make a decision.

More polling by the NRCC?

RandySF — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:36:25 GMT