So, 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: