August 4, 2012--As part of the "Super Saturday" weekend push,
RNC Victory and the Romney campaign
held an event at their office at 3811 Fairfax Drive in Arlington,
VA. This office opened in June, and with 94 days until Election
Day, there are currently 28 Victory
offices around the state. Virginia Victory spokesman Michael
Short said
the Republican effort will be "the largest GOP ground game in Virginia
history...easily three times the size of the Victory effort that
carried Bob McDonnell to victory in 2009." He said that since
Obama won Virginia in 2008, "Republicans have outperformed Democrats up
and down the ballot." In 2009 they elected Gov. Bob McDonnell and
took back the House of Delegates. In 2010 Republicans defeated
three Democratic congressmen (Boucher, Ney, and Periello). And,
in 2010 they expanded their majority in the House of Delegates and took
back the Senate. "We're building on what we know worked," Short
said. "We have a winning formula, and more resources than ever
before behind it," he said. Short said the Victory effort would
match Obama's campaign "door knock for door knock, phone call for phone
call and volunteer for volunteer."
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