The Ground Game

During a recent trip to Denver I was able to observe the Obama street team in action. They were mainly older non-threatening white people, but there were also some young folks of all backgrounds. It was a far cry from the right wing media's portrayal of Obama supporters as radical hippies. Now that you can imagine the people on the streets I can get to why they are important. We are at the beginning of May and Obama's re-election campaign is already on every block of this country. I have checked around a bit and Mitt Romney does not have 1/10th of the street team assembled. How does the GOP expect to win? In this day and age it is straight up incompetence to not have a ground game going by January 1st of the election year. Where are the tea parties? If there was a true conservative movement they would be out in full force and visible. A part of me thinks that the GOP wants to rely on 527 groups again. The thing that they forget is that Bush had a ground game. I want the election to be interesting (just so I can have something to talk about) but if this is how the GOP is going to run this race, it will be an interesting historical landslide.