Every pundit in political land is predicting that the outcome of this 2006 election is up for grabs and the "well-tuned" GOP GOTV organization will certainly make an impact on the final outcome. They cite the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections as the culmination of years of laying the groundwork and enlisting troops to their cause.
Really? Where was that groundwork evident in 2000 where W lost the general and just won Florida because a bunch of seniors couldn't figure out the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach? In that election Bush didn't have his manufactured post 9/11 image to hang his Texas turban on, he wasn't widely viewed as the "Pastor-in-chief" yet by the Christian conservatives, and he didn't have the bully pulpit to hammer away with his GWOT message and scare the wits out of the general population.