The Lee Fisher for Senate campaign has been one long, disgraceful slog thus far, with Lee needing to empty out his already small war chest to beat back a challenge in the Democrat primary from Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (who had about $14.92 on hand at any given time in the race). Then Lee miscounted by about 48, when he WAY overestimated his grassroots support at the Northland Independence Day Parade last month on Twitter before disgracefully sneaking off the parade route, which would have been fine except that some people apparently have cameras AND internet access to see the nonsensical number counting (a crowd estimate that would have made the DC Police proud). On top of that, Lee is now on his third campaign manager, and has lost both his Communications Director & Research Director, at least one of whom went to work on another Senate campaign with a better shot at winning. To take the cake, though, media pundits and Democrat bigwigs took notice, culminating in this fantastic video summing up the smoking wreckage that is the Democrats’ best shot at winning a Republican-held seat in the US Senate, in an open contest to boot, against an opponent who had never run statewide versus Lee’s approximate 53 statewide ballot appearances (that number subject to Lee’s own counting practices). Check it out:
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Lee Fisher is on a roll (just not a good one!)
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Lee Fisher’s Grassroots Slowmentum
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010So, Lee Fisher recently tweeted about showing up with “50+” volunteers at the Northland 4th of July Parade. Unfortunately for Lee, this is the 21st century, and people have a) cell phone cameras, and b) Al Gore’s Internet. Here’s a quick take from the Ohio GOP on the Democrat’s great hope for the US Senate, Lee Fisher, and his “grassroots slowmentum”:
Later in the day, Lee showed up at the Westerville Independence Day Parade, where he had a whopping 8 walkers (along with 8 for Ted Strickland/Yvette McGee Brown, and 5 for David Pepper). Most of the state representative campaigns we saw in parades this weekend had more volunteers marching with them than that! These are statewide candidates, with paid staff, and supposedly extensive astroturfing grassroots networks. Now, for what a real campaign looks like when they go marching in parades, check this out, from the Portman for Senate campaign: