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Nebraska Legislature Election 2014
AAllen:
Yes at least In Douglas County all the Dem households got early voting cards from the party, and they tend to throw lots of money around but look at how much they get from their big donors. Unfortunatly the local Republican Party looks for 10s and 20s from us blue collar folks and just does not have that level of cash, that's why the big campaigns get depended upon to do those things.
bkoenig:
--- Quote from: AAllen on October 11, 2014, 12:22:08 AM ---Yes at least In Douglas County all the Dem households got early voting cards from the party, and they tend to throw lots of money around but look at how much they get from their big donors. Unfortunatly the local Republican Party looks for 10s and 20s from us blue collar folks and just does not have that level of cash, that's why the big campaigns get depended upon to do those things.
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That's what just blows my mind. How expensive could it really be, in the grand scheme of things, to send out early voter cards to every (R) voter? If the Democrats can afford it I'm sure the Republicans can too, even if there are more (R) voters. It's like they're not even trying. Even if they randomly chose half of the registered (R) voters it would be a huge improvement.
AAllen:
--- Quote from: bkoenig on October 11, 2014, 12:30:44 AM ---That's what just blows my mind. How expensive could it really be, in the grand scheme of things, to send out early voter cards to every (R) voter? If the Democrats can afford it I'm sure the Republicans can too, even if there are more (R) voters. It's like they're not even trying. Even if they randomly chose half of the registered (R) voters it would be a huge improvement.
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Well as a County Party Central Committee member I can tell you straight up they don't have the funds, they try to raise money but the state party gets the big donors and they spend it on the statewide candidates and hope that there is a trickle down to the local. The Dems don't get large amounts (at least comparably) given to the state party, it goes to the local county or directly to candidates. Also the Unions do a lot to help the Dem candidates in Omaha and Lincoln, they print the pieces with the early voter stuff for some of them, for some they get large groups of people to walk neighborhoods and deliver them to every door (a 4x6 postcard costs in the vicinity of .12 to print, and .23 to bulk mail).
The Douglas County Republican Party has raised enough money to get a candidate slate printed (a list of all the republican candidates running in the county) but is having trouble getting volunteers to help deliver them to people, so they end up needing to spend on postage and that breaks the bank because of the size of the piece (it is larger than a standard postcard).
Since the Dems can't find candidates for all the races they can fit them all on a postcard and with the low price send multiple, one to each Dem household before the election, your an early voter you get one the same day your ballot arrives, maybe another one before the election with the early voter request card attached. They seem to get more money and more volunteer help, that's why they keep winning in the cities.
And how expensive, well there are around 124,000 registered Republicans in Douglas County, so that's around 80,000 households so a simple postcard to each would cost $28,000 plus design cost, setting up the mailing for proper addressing etc. for bulk mail. A bigger piece like what the DCRP has for a candidate slate would cost around .50 each so around $40,000 plus the extra's. They usually also reach out to the Libertarians and undecided so that's another 77,000 voters and around another 50,000 households, I think you can see where this can become quite expensive.
For info there are about 122,000 registered Democrats in Douglas County based upon numbers I saw beginning of the month.
JTH:
--- Quote from: AAllen on October 10, 2014, 10:33:12 AM ---District 2: Ron Nolte who received an F from the NRA in the primary is putting up a good fight to unseat Bill Kintner, personally I think Bill should win but my inside sources say this is a much closer race than most would think. It is an R vs. R race but the Dems have been backing Nolte and the Reps have not gotten strong behind their incumbent, Nolte has lots of business connections in the District and has been using them to put pressure on Bill. This is a seat we need to defend.
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This interests me. Do we know why Nolte got an F from the NRA? I know Ron a little, and every discussion we've had about guns (hmm---literally every discussion we've had has been about guns) has been positive.
Matter of fact, he lets me use some of his land as a shooting range sometimes.
He even has people come out periodically shooting various levels of NFA items, including full-auto.
It is also interesting to see that the Dems have been backing him. I would have pegged him as a die-hard R.
I'm not arguing against anything Allen has said, above---if he is saying it, I know he can back it up. It just surprises me a lot. (And I've met Kintner, and I know he abstained from at least one vote last year in which he knew what he should have voted, but he didn't want to make a doctor friend of his angry so he abstained. This isn't supposition, this is actually what he SAID. Don't like him much.)
Do we know why Nolte got an F?
FarmerRick:
From here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Real-Ron-Nolte/332587186911427
--- Quote ---Liberal Dick Holland, Liberal Frederick Simon, the extremely Liberal Nebraska Teachers Union, State AFL-CIO Unions, Firefighters Union, Liberal Union NAPE/AFSCME...pretty good group of supporters for a Liberal Democrat...and they all support Ron Nolte.
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