Lohr: Confused, or scared?
posted by JGFitzgeraldIt’s only August, and we’ve had the second Matt Lohr teenager knocking on our front door. “Not interested,” Deb told him, firmly. It was only July when we had our first one. “Not if Lohr was the last man on Earth,” I told that one.
The questions: Why return, after the first rebuff? Don’t they have walk sheets telling them who lives where and who’s not a Republican? Finally, why start going door to door as early as July, irritating known Democrats, for a race the Republicans have carried by eight points or so the last two times?
posted: August 6th, 2007 by JGFitzgerald
filed under Matt Lohr, news & meta-news.
Comments: 10
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Comment from finnegan
Time: August 6, 2007, 7:43 pm
Saxman and Landes were buying ads on The New Dominion two months ago, and as far as I know, they’re running unopposed.
Other than the occasional salvo Myron posts at random about Frank and Lohr, there’s no indication to the general public that Frank is running at all. Obenshain is virtually unopposed, but at least Roles has bought an ad on TND. That’s something.
Most people I’ve talked to that vote have seen the Fulk for Clerk signs, and assume Lowell is running against Matt again.
Comment from finnegan
Time: August 6, 2007, 7:56 pm
But I digressed. I have no real answers to your question, other than — maybe their lists are screwed up, or maybe they like intentionally annoying Democrats.
Comment from Tim
Time: August 6, 2007, 8:27 pm
I have been a guest at Matt Lohr’s house and he is a very nice man with at lovely family. On a personal level I think he’s great but I could never justify voting for him. He’s a loyal Bushy, came up with the idea to ban after hour school clubs with the seemingly singular intention of doing away with the gay/straight alliance at HHS, and he voted for the abusive driver fees in VA (apparently he either gets paid to much or he’s never been caught speeding). I truly hope he is feeling threatened in the polls, loses, and finds a successful career in the private sector where his ideas don’t affect the public to quiet the same degree that they do now. I’m sure he’ll win though, and it makes me sad.
Comment from finnegan
Time: August 6, 2007, 10:02 pm
This is just a technicality, but Lohr didn’t come up with the anti-GSA thing. I believe that was originally the inititive of his predesessor, Glenn Weatherholtz.
Comment from JGFitzgerald
Time: August 7, 2007, 8:29 am
Very specifically, the GSA controversy was a major issue for John Elledge, Weatherholtz’s legislative aide and heir apparent until the GSA issue and some others made him too controversial for some local Republicans. They apparently wanted, and got in Lohr, a white-bread candidate with no crust.
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Comment from Bubby
Time: August 7, 2007, 9:02 am
Is there a designated write-in candidate against Chris Saxman? I want to send Mr. Abuser Fee a message.
Comment from cook
Time: August 7, 2007, 10:57 am
Two responses to this post:
1. I would support a campaign reform proposal permitting no campaigning until Labor Day. I’m sick of it already.
2. You ask, “Why start going door to door as early as July, irritating known Democrats, for a race the Republicans have carried by eight points or so the last two times?” Because, while incumbency and the Party carry a lot of weight, an individual candidate should not take it for granted in a given election. Chaz has been campaigning for years, and Matt has not started too early (notwithstanding my comment in paragraph 1). And why should Matt care about irritating known Dems?
(Joe, please notice that I capitalized and punctuated this comment.)
Comment from JGFitzgerald
Time: August 7, 2007, 11:24 am
Cook,
Maybe I should have combined the questions more. What made me wonder the most about the tactic was the way they used one of a campaign’s three greatest assets, volunteer time (the other two assets being money and the candidate’s time). It’s wasteful to visit one house twice this early, it’s wasteful to visit people your database should tell you won’t vote for you, and it’s counter-productive to alienate anyone, even the other side. The possibilities seem to be a sloppy start to the Lohr campaign, or that the Loboto-Tarians in cargo shorts are really working for a Rovian Valley Svengali on the other side and are trying to irritate everybody. Scary thought.
As to the early campaign ban: The Brits seem able to elect their whole Parliament in six weeks and change governments overnight if need be. Our shortest campaigns, council and school board, are at least two months, and just about everything else requires a nomination five months before the election. I wonder what difference there could possibly be between, just for instance, Lohr and Lowell Fulk, that would take five months to notice?
Comment from Phil C.
Time: August 7, 2007, 7:16 pm
Irritating known Dems? So Republican candidates can’t attempt to try and court Dem voters?
I do believe that, with Carolyn Frank not pushing her campaign very hard, July is a bit early to do the door-to-door work…but hey, to at least make an attempt to reach out to all voters, and not just known Pubs, isn’t such a bad thing, IMO.
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