Actually I can think of more than one person here who knows the GOP's inner workings better than Tom, starting with myself, what with being a party official and all. And not living in NY state. Tom's smart and knows his stuff but he wouldn't make that claim and I've no idea what you base it off of. We all know what happened this time perfectly well, we relied on a lot of Obama's people not showing from 2008 and more of ours showing, as best as I can tell, in Ohio anyway, we actually ran a better ground game too, his worked in the end, ours didn't, in all probability it was just took less effort per voter for them then for us and they had a bigger pool. Sort of like 2004 in reverse, not a 2008 or a 1984 re-election.