From: "Mark" 


"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
news:opsmxsmzwesagvys{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:45:09 -0500, Gary Britt 
> wrote:
>
>> Does the 233,000 number include unpaid "volunteers"
provided by labor
>> unions, teacher's unions, etc.  I don't think so.  I thought the unions
>> provided DEMS with over 1 million volunteers just by themselves
>
> I just read a piece (somewhere...) saying that the Dems had made a mistake
> in allowing the 527s to bear so much of the load: they are not allowed to
> share their lists, and so the Dems do not have access to the millions of
> contacts the orgs do, whereas the Repubs maintained the contacts
> themselves.
>
> That's probably most of the disparity Barone notes, right there.

Could very well be. If so, the question is do the Dems allow the 527s to do
their heavy lifting again in '08? (or perhaps more importantly, in the
senate races of '06).

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