{"id":922,"date":"2003-11-29T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-gets-organized\/"},"modified":"2003-11-29T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T18:22:12","slug":"bush-gets-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-gets-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush gets organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"washingtonpost.com: 2004 Is Now for Bush's Campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A20936-2003Nov29?language=printer\">2004 Is Now for Bush&#8217;s Campaign<\/a> By Dan Balz and Mike Allen, washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of <b>an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The entire project, which includes complementary efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties, is designed to tip the balance in a dozen-and-a-half states that both sides believe will determine the winner in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen grass roots like this,&#8221; said a veteran GOP operative in one of the battleground states. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Having the biggest presidential campaign treasury ever &#8212; more than $105 million raised already and heading toward $170 million &#8212; and no primary opposition gives Bush the luxury of focusing now on general-election organizing. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Bush team is trying to build an army of millions of volunteers to go door-to-door next year to talk to potential voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Bush&#8217;s huge warchest of campaign funds and this massive organization effort alarm you, as they do me, <b>DO SOMETHING!<\/b> Above all, register and get everyone you know to register. Create your own website or blog. Contribute money and time to some candidate. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004 Is Now for Bush&#8217;s Campaign By Dan Balz and Mike Allen, washingtonpost.com Bush&#8217;s campaign Web site already has signed up 6 million supporters, 10 times the number that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has, and the Bush operation is in the middle of an unprecedented drive to register 3 million new Republican voters. &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-gets-organized\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush gets organized<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}