Don’t get me wrong: Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 ground game was great – at getting Barack Obama elected, at least – and the Democrats were not shy in confidently claiming that they had converted that success into a more general system that would allow them to retain the Senate and make up lost territory in the states. Which is fine: bragging is one of the pleasures of winning. One must expect it.
Democrats are praying their ground game will save them from a crushing defeat in next month’s midterm elections.
This is what you say when ‘crushing defeat’ is something that you aspire to. We’ll see how the early voting goes (check here for a good, balanced look at the running totals), but so far I’m not particularly worried about that.
It’s just one data point, but… I live in a somewhat gentrified, somewhat not part of Houston. I’ve gotten more mailers and stuff on my door from the Democratic party encouraging me to vote and vote Democrat than ever before. In the past, I’ve gotten stuff for an individual candidate, but not like this.