BATTLEGROUND TEXAS?

THE PERPETUAL CAMPAIGN: HOW OBAMA'S LEFT-WING PARTISANS PLAN TO INVADE AND DESTROY TEXAS

According to information the Tatler has obtained from the Battleground Texas kickoff meeting, the mechanics behind Organizing for Action's "people based" approach are at once simple and revolutionary. Bird's team has developed a five-point contact plan for identifying and courting low-information, low-frequency voters. These voters are average folks who pay little attention to politics and current events and have left no trail allowing either party to identify which party they're more likely to vote for. 

Bird's volunteers call these prospects and use a script to ascertain whether they are persuadable to the Democrats' point of view. Volunteers perform a "gut check" on the prospective voter, and these gut checks have proven to be accurate nearly 95% of the time. If the prospect is not identified as persuadable, then the volunteer files them away and does not call them again. 

But if the prospect appears to be persuadable, then the five-point plan comes into play. Volunteers will call the voter again, based on current events, to deliver information crafted to shape the prospect's beliefs. For instance, if a volunteer has identified a suburban Fort Worth mom as a persuadable Democratic voter based on social issues, Todd Akin's remarks on rape would have generated a second phone call. Richard Mourdock's comments would have generated a third. A fourth call may have focused on the ObamaCare birth control mandate, casting it as a service to women and casting opposition to it as a "war on women." The fifth call would have simply given the prospect information on where to vote. Job done. 

Someone who probably would not have voted at all has been processed over a few weeks into a likely Democratic voter. At the very least, they have become far less likely to vote for the party of Akin and Mourdock, who have been cast along with their party as villains. Obviously, none of the recent Democrats' remarks on rape that aired during Colorado's gun control debate would get any play at all in these calls. They are one-sided information streams, intended to create velocity on the way to creating a vote.

The simple part to this is that parties and campaigns have used phone banking for decades. But phone banking has not typically been used in this way, using follow-ups over a longer period of time, to turn an unidentified non-voter into a known quantity voter. Widespread and cheap VOIP phone technology and the Obama campaign's massive and highly organized volunteer army work together to make the five-point system affordable, and the tactic of making the political phone call a source of tailored information that amounts to a running commentary on the campaign over time makes it effective.

Bird's group used this system in 2012 in several swing states, capturing all of them. Democratic volunteers from Texas played critical roles; now Democratic volunteers from outside Texas will join in the effort to swing the Lone Star State.

Along with its emphasis on out-of-state events to manipulate voters in the state, BT intends to deceive Texas voters regarding what the Democrats actually want to do in Texas. Texas policy successes stand for themselves, but Democrats have consistently and relentlessly attacked them while holding up other, Democrat-controlled, states as models. Over the years, Texas Democrats have essentially parroted the national DNC message. If the national party was for ObamaCare, so was the state party. If the national party preferred California and Chicago governance over Texas governance, so did the state party. 

Texans tend to be pro-life and favor the Second Amendment; the Texas Democrats have consistently and loudly gone the other way on both. Bird's group intends to cater its message to Texas, so that the national Democrats' message does not scare off potential voters in traditionally conservative communities. 

The national Democratic platform of union power, high taxes, lavish government spending, weak national security, curtailed constitutional rights, and centralized government control does not play well in Texas. So the Battleground group intends to avoid explaining and detailing the Democrats' plans as much as possible. They're not jettisoning any of that. They just intend to hide it. Once elected to power, this Obama-centric group can be counted on to deliver Obama-style policies like those that are carving California hollow and turning Chicago into a war zone. 

And here are some useful items to help combat these Kool-aid peddlers:
 

#BGTX ED @jennb_jennb: We will do this block by block. When neighbors are talking to neighbors...that is how we win. #GameOnCorpus
— Battleground Texas (@BGTX) March 16, 2013

Battleground Texas aims to change Texas voting trends austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-… via @culturemapatx
— Jeremy Bird (@jeremybird) March 18, 2013

The website is: Battleground Texas 

This organizing effort is aimed at and relies almost exclusively on the Hispanic community in Texas.  This is where the GOP must concentrate its outreach efforts.  There's no reason why the techniques outlined in the article can't be used by Republicans.  And, of course, the GOP has a massive headstart and a ready-made political infrastructure.  There is absolutely no excuse - none! - for the Texas GOP and the national organization to not come down on these clowns like a ton of bricks.  They want to turn the success story of Texas into a horror story like California.  What are you going to do about it?