Do you wonder why Republicans keep pulling rabbits out of a hat on election day? Donald Lambro says it’s the “ground game.”
And it was the ground game that helped Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee win his Republican primary against Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey.
[T]he Republican National Committee pumped $400,000 into the race on a voter identification-turnout drive that brought a record number of voters to the polls -- and gave the embattled Mr. Chafee his 54 percent to 46 percent victory
Of course, it’s one thing to spend $400,000 to bring out 62,000 GOP primary voters in one of the smallest states in the Union. The question is: can the GOP coaches make the ground game work nationally in the general election?
Sitting on a cash hoard of about $30 million, the RNC plans to replicate what they did in Rhode Island in about three-dozen House races and six or more Senate contests where Republican candidates are vulnerable.
Still, defense is defense. When do we get to switch to offense?
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