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2008 Election Dissection

JR Hoeft | November 12, 2008 | Comments (1)

Last night, Vivian Paige, Brian Kirwin, and myself participated in an “Election Dissection” in Virginia Beach, sponsored the Nimmo Republican Women’s Club.

The crowd, which included Del. Sal Iaquinto, RPVB Chair Kenny Golden, and Virginia Beach Progressive Blogger Joel McDonald, involved some spirited discussion on the part of all.

Topics we discussed included:

Consultants and Negative Campaigning
The future of the GOP
MSM
Social Marketing
Gov. Sarah Palin
Fulfilling campaign promises
Motivating conservatives and reaching out to minorities
New and minority voter turnout
and, of course, our thoughts on
What happened to bring about the result?

All in all, it was a fun and informative night.

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Category: Campaigns and Elections

About JR Hoeft: Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter. View author profile.

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I visited the Nimmo Republican Women’s Club… « VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local says:

November 14, 2008 at 10:49 am

[...] Fortunately, I wasn’t the only Democrat in the room. Jim recorded the entire thing and has it here. If you haven’t heard enough election analysis, check it [...]

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