70,000 is a heck of a lot of doors:
The Feingold Campaign today eclipsed the 70,000-door mark in its aggressive grassroots field efforts across Wisconsin. The earlier-than-expected arrival at this number is due in part to the recent “July Twenty-Fourward” statewide canvass, where supporters knocked on more than 11,000 doors in one day. In addition to daily door-to-door canvassing, the campaign hosts nightly phone banks in each of the 16 field offices. To date, volunteers and supporters have made more than 63,000 phone calls to Wisconsinites around the state.
“Face-to-face contact with voters makes a difference – our past campaigns prove it,” said George Aldrich, Feingold Campaign manager. “Reaching 70,000 doors at this stage in the campaign sends a very encouraging message about the enthusiasm, strength and incredible dedication of our volunteers. We couldn’t be more pleased with this level of grassroots support.”
I wonder how many doors the campaign of Republican U.S. candidate Ron Johnson has knocked on…something tells me it’s nowhere close to 70,000.
Don’t need volunteers when you’ve got money.
You seen the RoJo$ hologram cards yet? Funny waste of money those are.
One thing about Feingold’s campaign I noticed so far (and do correct me if I’m wrong) is that everyone seems to talk about him. Feingold talks about himself in the ad I saw. What do his opponents do? Well they talk about him, and little about their own agendas. Do they have so little to stand on that they need to resort to petty smear ads? I’ve seen countless attack ads yet few positive ads for any Republican candidates. It’s possible that the positive ads blend in though while the Republican attack ads use the exact same scare and smear tactics Republican campaigns have been using for as long as I can remember.
Again, I do hate smear ads on any side though. The “John McCain doesn’t care about seniors” one was particularly distasteful back in 2008.
You must have not seen this ad from Russ: