Party Organisers are being put into place to work on the state level against a repeat of the Hillary Clinton electoral college loss last time…..
It’s about getting out the vote….
The Democratic National Committee announced Monday that it is funding full-time staff in eight presidential election battleground states, showing its commitment to state-level investment early in the election cycle.
The central party body, which oversees the presidential nominating process and provides support for general-election efforts across the country, is financing the hiring in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin. Though the DNC is funding the new personnel, the Democratic Party in each of the individual states will employ them.
The funding for those states’ organizers, which will be responsible for outreach to voters in key constituencies, comes from the DNC’s State Party Innovation Fund. The DNC did not provide a dollar figure for the investment, but said it was larger than comparable investments at this stage in the 2016 election cycle.
“Organizing at the community level is our highest priority as the DNC,” Muthoni Wambu Kraal, the DNC’s national political and organizing director, said in a statement. “People are our most powerful resource in this election ― from rural and urban communities, to secular and nonsecular communities, to voters of every ethnicity, age, and background.”…
Sign-Ups grow in Georgia….
“New voters have registered in droves in Georgia since last year’s midterms, expanding the electorate ahead of the 2020 presidential election year when the state is expected to be a key political battleground,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“More than 352,000 people signed up to vote in the past 11 months, the vast majority of them automatically registering when they obtain a driver’s license… The influx has boosted Georgia’s voter rolls to a record high of nearly 7.4 million.”….
So, we can surmise that they have written off Ohio.
Maybe a lingering backlash for some out of staters in 2016….
Ohio WILL get support from the DNC
Ohio is a must win for Republicans. But not for Democrats.
Perhaps, but historically, it has been a “must-win” period.
Then again, Missouri was once a bellwether too.
And if Hillary had picked Sherrod Brown as her running-mate, she probably would have won the election.
Yeah I see Ohio as going down the same road as Missouri. Becoming more southern/Appalachian
Maybe Ohio State will do like Mizzou and join the SEC.
Ohio was once necessary for Democrats to win.
But that was back before states like Virginia and Colorado were still voting Republican.
Ohio State is never joining the SEC. They have a good thing going, football wise, in the B1G 10.
Missouri should have joined the Big 10. It would have made a lot more sense than Maryland or Rutgers.
As I’ve written here countless times before, ever since the GOP’s birth in 1854, Republicans can win Ohio and still lose the country, as has happened five times in the past (Frémont 1856, B. Harrison 1880 & 1888, Dewey 1948 & Nixon 1960). Ohio also supported all four Republican Presidents who’d lost the national popular vote (Hayes 1876, B. Harrison 1888, G.W. Bush 2000 & Trump 2016).
But no Republican candidate has won the Presidency without Ohio.
And since the Reagan-Bush landslides of 1980-88, Ohio’s margins have been in the single percentages, most notably in 2004.
1.83 % W. Clinton
6.36 % W. Clinton
3.51 % G. W. Bush
2.11 % G. W. Bush
4.58 % Obama
2.97 % Obama
8.07 % Trump
Ohio may be lost to the Democrats, but I think that’s unclear. After all, while Ohio didn’t vote for Gore or Hillary Clinton, she did vote twice for Bill Clinton and twice for Barack Obama.
So, I think that the Buckeye State is well worth an investment of time, people and effort.