Unions Admit Failed GOTV Effort in '04

After years of cleaning our clock on Election Day, the National Journal's On Call blog reports that Labor Unions have finally admitted their 2004 Get-out-the-Vote effort failed:

"Without being asked, McEntee, who also chairs the AFL's political cmte, stated bluntly that the millions of dollars Dems and liberals put into the 527s for GOTV in '04 were ineffective in the face of the GOP's volunteer effort. Or, as McEntee put it, the Dems' 'stranger-to-stranger' ground game was 'trounced' by the GOP's "neighbor-to-neighbor strategy."