50 State Strategy Delivered
Much ballyhooing has been made of the Obama campaign soliciting Texas volunteers to call out of state, or travel to New Mexico or Colorado to work those battleground states.
Let’s not forget, we’re still getting the 50 state strategy that we were promised.
John McCain doesn’t plan on spending a cent to carry Texas: No offices, no staffers, no television commercials and no campaign appearances.
So while Mr. McCain’s absence signals that Texas is solidly red, it leaves local, more vulnerable GOP candidates to grind alone. He’d be the first GOP presidential candidate in years not to campaign here in the general election.
Hillary Clinton was here campaigning for Rick Noriega this weekend.
In contrast, Barack Obama, who acknowledges that he will probably lose Texas, has placed paid staffers in the state to work with thousands of volunteers. Many of them are being sent to battleground states to campaign.
We have staff in Dallas / Fort Worth, and an energized group of volunteers. They are here, as promised.
I can’t locate much reliable Texas polling since July, save Rasmussen, which has been accused of leaning right (they cooperate with Fox News). So who really knows how close Texas is right now? Maybe we swing this state out of ’solid’ Republican this year.
That’s what we’re all working for.