Kerry Volunteers Out-Numbered Out-Spent Deserve A Little Respect! [View All]

I’m really tired of all the lame threads that are dismissive of Kerry supporters. We who are volunteering for Kerry have faced an unbelievable uphill battle being out-numbered and out-spent in almost every contest.

In Washington State today we are totally out-numbered on the ground. We have always been outnumbered and out-spent and have won some because our people though few in number were more knowledgeable, experienced and just as dedicated to a leader who is REALLY QUALIFIED for the job as supporters of Dean and Clark. We have had to deal with:

1. The Big-Name endorsers of Dean not just attracted more media presence to the Dean "movement,” but it helped energize Dean voters.

2. The Corporate Media and pundits filled every program discussing the near inevitability of a Dean nomination and whether the Clinton’s backing of Clark could help him block Dean when the primaries went South. There was nothing positive about Kerry, NOTHING.

3. Dean and Gephardt’s massive on the ground organizations were expected to totally swamp the caucus process even when polls showed that the people were beginning to move towards Kerry.

We won Iowa and New Hampshire through very hard work of dedicated volunteers including a lot of Vets who had never done this sort of thing before. There was no trick, but a record turn-out for Kerry. That turnout continues state to state because the VOTERS are making a choice.

One of these days it would be good to see some threads from other camps that acknowledge this so we can unite and move forward together at some point.