NO ONE ELSE TO DATE, SO JUST DANCIN' WITH THEM WHAT BRUNG YA
'Tis the season that we find out that lobby groups are lobby groups and will never do anything to stop having "access". That is what they do.
Why do we wring our hands so, about it, this fundamental truth?
Maybe, because we divert too much attention and resource to national "lobbying"?
Would a better allocation be to local races?
Would a better allocation be to moving the electorate in key, swing races and states (Ohio, Florida, Missouri), rather than pouring non-descript money into Washington and Empire Pride, say?
Probably.
Are the challenges to such a refocused effort mostly organizational? Probably yes. We haven't really seen an organization with a combination of scope (resources) and skill to consistently move the electorate.
Gill PAC had success in Colorado, on at least one issue. But on a different issue in California, Maine, and New Jersey, the efforts didn't "fail", but no one left with a clear sense of what it takes to move from even -10 to -5 on an issue, or if that is even possible, using standard techniques... There were no "lessons learned" or postmortems done, no scientific progress to report (at least none I know and that's a small amount), on any of this.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
The HRC
