Follow The Money.

If you can find it.

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During the time between when it became apparent to the electorate that Biden could not “serve effectively” as president in a second term (February 2023) and the time the Democratic Party leadership tossed Biden overboard (July 2024), there were questions about the Biden campaign operation.

What were they doing up there in Wilmington, Delaware? They were raising money, yes. They were polling like mad, yes. They were market testing lines of attack, yes. And occasionally morsels of their political marketing wisdom would be selectively leaked to readers of Axios and The Washington Post.

But the real answer, we were told, was this: They were building out a massive “ground game” or “field operation”, that would touch every last Democratic and lean-Democratic voter in each of the “battleground” states, of which there were seven.

There was more than enough money to do that. To date, the hybrid Biden-Harris-Walz campaign has raised over $1 billion. If you took a third of that money (which you should) and dedicated it to the build-out of a massive field operation in seven states, you’d have $50 million per state (not pro-rated). So: plenty of money.

And Job One would be get more of “your” voters registered. It’s called new voter registration and it’s the most basic grass roots campaign effort. Find them, persuade them to register, keep track of them, and then make sure they vote — absentee, by mail, at a drop box or in-person. $50 million per state should produce an impressive number of new voters who look a lot like the people who are registered and vote (or lean) Democratic.

But..ah..apparently not.

As the late, great sportscaster Warner Wolf used to say, let’s go to the videotape: