While we're all busy fighting over the next candidate, or nominee, the road back for the Right and Republicans is a bit more complicated than that. Unless more of our brain trust starts thinking more strategically than the next campaign, or consulting gig, Republicans are going to continue to be at a significant disadvantage around the country as the Left continues to build the type of infrastructure, on line and off, that will be required to win in what is increasingly a new political and media age.
It ain't always sexy and it doesn't easily sell. But it works.
The 2006 and 2008 election cycles were unkind to the Republican Party, but what happened in Colorado was something altogether different and totally new. A group of four mega-donors decided to ignore the state Democratic establishment and start from scratch with a brand new, privatized political infrastructure. Of course they were aided by the new campaign finance reform laws, but what the “Gang of Four” (Rutt Bridges, Tim Gill, Jared Polis and Pat Stryker) did was replicate all of the essential functions of the Colorado Democratic Party–and added a few more for good measure.
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