ELECTION RETROSPECTIVE, PART TWO, VAUNTED GOP "72 HOUR EFFORT"

(There is so much to write about at this time that I may precook some things and put a couple of them up a day--depends on my day job).

First, let me concede on a national basis, the GOP GOTV "72 Hour" effort is really well organized and based on an accountability model that truly works. We've paid it the best compliment we can. We've tried to steal most of it. In the suburban southwest and in the "redneck riviera" it is pure killer stuff.

But Rover said they had it on line in every county in the US. Maybe, but in Adams County it fell around seventy one and a half hours short. They did the impossible here, they made ours, which was not bad, but not our best, look really good. We were on track for about 20,000 ballots. The great weather probably accounted for another thousand and the turnout was 22,5xx. for the most part the extra 1500 were ours.

I went to a number of polling places and never saw a poll watcher from the State GOP, Spike, McCoy or anybody else on their side.

I did find some evidence of a very slapdash democrat voter suppression attempt by the GOP or the Greens (not sure which but I can't imagine why the Greens would want to do that), but no effort to mobilize their own voters. (NOTE TO KARL: I did talk to one ill-tempered, drunk democratic voter who went for your pitch "they're all crooks. They're all in your pocket. Just don't vote for any of 'em". Probably saved him a DUI getting to the polls. Public service, nice job.

So, Andrea Zinga, please note, Rover & Co. kissed you off before election day. Hastert wouldn't know a GOTV if one bit him in the fanny and Mr. Reynolds, your campaign head, was busy trying to save his own rear end in New York. Good thing you and your buddies could count on the White House to be there till the last dog died.

Our GOTV got the able adults out. We had some other technical problems like........Oh, wait......that'd be telling, wouldn't it? I'll just save it for the Chairman