we put the billboards up in louisiana and in five other states. louisiana is the only state where we ve been sued over use of their tourist logo. but, you know, we re also doing on the ground organizing, we re launching another ad campaign in louisiana this week. we re not going to let ourselves be bullied. we won t let ourselves be silenced. we think this is an important issue on the merits and a winning issue we can show democrats what it looks like to stand. up and fight on health care and point out the real villains. anna galland from moveon.org. remember when obamacare was obviously doomed? we ll check back on the predictions and match them with data. for experience. for what reality teaches you firsthand. in the face of danger, and under the most demanding circumstances. experience builds character. experience builds confidence. and experience. has built this. introducing the 2014 glk. the engineering and the experience of mercedes-benz.
house gop voted to stop my 2 k. it depends on what you want to do. tweeting and facebooking is great to activate people to do things. the question is, what things and what happens to on the grass organizing. on the ground organizing has to do with having an effect locally on a local issue, being able to influence your local media, your local politicians. that is one of the politicians where those that are freaking out about why is obama continuing the campaign fails to understand. it is not as if decisions we focus on are not affected by what is happening locally. the right has known this forever. to organize people at the base and influence local media and officials is important. i want to go back to the health
people who pursue these issues and their understanding to say the quality on the ground organizing. in michigan, for example, you had a win on the question of these emergency manager laws. people have got it. they ve experienced it in their communities. the fact that the unions lost on the collective bargaining initiative, i think it s fascinating that this issue has yet to be really communicated even by unions to union members. and not to get on their case. i think 30 years of media bashing unions. most americans have lost any idea of what unions are really about. what they mean. if you are watching me at home on a saturday morning right now, that s because of unions. that s why you have time to be home watching television. up next, the change that you can buy for $6 billion.
super pac which is dramatically outspent, that the work that they did to attack romney during that period and really frame him as this out of touch plutocrat, as haley barbour famously put, a plutocrat whose wife is a known equestrian, that that is determinative. i think we saw the outside spending cancel itself out but more importantly the power of on the ground organizing. all this money that karl rove spent was on television ads. they reached a point of diminishing returns. this was a turnout election. when donors demand answers, they re going to say why didn t you spend more on turnout and ground activities. why did you just spend this money on ads? mike, outside groups spent more in 2012 than they did in the previous 11 election cycles combined. one calculation has karl rove s hit rate at 1%. so did they waste their money? you know, this is the real downside of the whole republican model right now, which is you don t go after small donors and you can build an extra party outsi
and when i am sitting in my usual seat at my usual desk in new york, we have what we call an rp, a rare projector. that s the visual thing that s up over my left shoulder, so on your right. it s our not so magic wall in the studio. and that s where we put whatever the visual is for what s going on in that segment. this is how we opened our show last night, as the polls were closing in wisconsin, this is how we started our coverage of what was expected to be the very close recall election in wisconsin. turnout! turnout! turnout! because the exit polls showed that the wisconsin race was expected to be superduper close, everybody s expectation was that the democratic side had made it close by turnout efforts, by get out the vote efforts, by on the ground organizing. yeah, scott walker had a huge financial advantage and with that financial advantage, he had owned the air waves in the state, blanketed the state with paid advertising, that was paid for my by his corporate and billionaire and