Top 10 things I learned from this Election (maybe)
Number 10 - Not getting the Asbury Park endorsement doesn’t kill you
It did not have a big effect on the county races. Most of their endorsements went to sure things anyway.
Number 9 - If the Asbury Park press hammers you unmercifully you have problems. Witness the 12the legislative district. They did to Karcher what they did to Bennett. It was the hammering that effected the 12th not the endorsement.
Number 8 – Negative campaigning doesn’t always work and sometimes it backfires. A couple million dollars worth did not help the Democrats in the 12th. It did not help the new Sheriff. She would have won by a bigger margin if she did not go negative.
Number 7 – Negative Campaigning works sometimes. Karcher was killed by a Christmas tree farm. (BTW the republican candidates owe Blogger Barry Goldwater BIG time). If it was not for that one issue she would have won by at least 5 points.
Number 6 – I have not a clue as to what makes negative campaigning work and what makes it backfire.
Number 5 - Name recognition helps. Kim Guadagno had better name recognition then Hill. Clifton and DAmico had better name recognition then Cantor and Schueler. The only one who broke the trend was Casagrande and not by much.
Number 4 – Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Usually only the disaffected make noise and they are not always in the majority. Look at Manalapan. You would have thought that Andrew Lucas was dead meat based on Internet postings. Yet he won by a comfortable margin.
Number 3 – Sometimes the Internet postings are a sign of trouble. If you read the comments posted at online newspaper articles about Karcher’s farm you knew she was in trouble.
Number 2 – Internet Bloggers are our friends (well at least some of them)
It is better to work with them then attack them. Abe and Goldwater helped quite a bit. Good opposition research. The fact that the party seems to have embraced at least some of the reforms bloggers have been advocating helped the republicans turn their election prospects around.
AND THE NUMBER 1 THING I LEARNED FROM THIS ELECTION IS.
We Bloggers don’t know everything. Let’s face it our predictions of apocalypse for county Republicans did not come true. Although, if Anna Little had not been dumped I think everyone can agree we would be sure that only one Democrat would be on the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Now that I have catalogued all I learned (or didn’t) I have to go lay down. I have a headache
Number 10 - Not getting the Asbury Park endorsement doesn’t kill you
It did not have a big effect on the county races. Most of their endorsements went to sure things anyway.
Number 9 - If the Asbury Park press hammers you unmercifully you have problems. Witness the 12the legislative district. They did to Karcher what they did to Bennett. It was the hammering that effected the 12th not the endorsement.
Number 8 – Negative campaigning doesn’t always work and sometimes it backfires. A couple million dollars worth did not help the Democrats in the 12th. It did not help the new Sheriff. She would have won by a bigger margin if she did not go negative.
Number 7 – Negative Campaigning works sometimes. Karcher was killed by a Christmas tree farm. (BTW the republican candidates owe Blogger Barry Goldwater BIG time). If it was not for that one issue she would have won by at least 5 points.
Number 6 – I have not a clue as to what makes negative campaigning work and what makes it backfire.
Number 5 - Name recognition helps. Kim Guadagno had better name recognition then Hill. Clifton and DAmico had better name recognition then Cantor and Schueler. The only one who broke the trend was Casagrande and not by much.
Number 4 – Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Usually only the disaffected make noise and they are not always in the majority. Look at Manalapan. You would have thought that Andrew Lucas was dead meat based on Internet postings. Yet he won by a comfortable margin.
Number 3 – Sometimes the Internet postings are a sign of trouble. If you read the comments posted at online newspaper articles about Karcher’s farm you knew she was in trouble.
Number 2 – Internet Bloggers are our friends (well at least some of them)
It is better to work with them then attack them. Abe and Goldwater helped quite a bit. Good opposition research. The fact that the party seems to have embraced at least some of the reforms bloggers have been advocating helped the republicans turn their election prospects around.
AND THE NUMBER 1 THING I LEARNED FROM THIS ELECTION IS.
We Bloggers don’t know everything. Let’s face it our predictions of apocalypse for county Republicans did not come true. Although, if Anna Little had not been dumped I think everyone can agree we would be sure that only one Democrat would be on the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Now that I have catalogued all I learned (or didn’t) I have to go lay down. I have a headache
posted by Teddy Roosevelt at
5:34 PM
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