. . POLITICS: ELECTIONS AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS: VOTER SUPPRESSION : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : POLITICS: PRESSURE GROUPS: Kochs Take Tip From Soros Investing in Voter Registration . . Kochs Take Tip From Soros Investing in Voter Registration By Julie Bykowicz August 1, 2012 8:00 PM ET Bloomberghttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/ kochs-take-tip-from-soros-investing-in-voter-registration.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/cmwtmhb . .The door-knockers wearing matching T- shirts and carrying electronic tablets loaded with maps and survey scripts fanned out on a recent evening across Hillsborough County, a Florida enclave that has backed the winning presidential candidate in each of the last three elections.
.Their mission: Find residents who share the small- government philosophy of Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit group founded by billionaire industrialists and Republican donors Charles and David Koch.
.Its a project conceived in envy, as the Kochs watched another billionaire, financier George Soros, underwrite a 2004 Democratic voter-turnout project that operated outside of the official party, said Tim Phillips, AFPs president.
.To their credit, Soros and other progressive, liberal donors decided to strengthen the movement rather than the party, Phillips said. It eventually worked, and theres no reason we cant see the same success.
.Americans for Prosperity plans to spend $100 million this year, only about a third of it on costly television ads that lack the personal connections strategists in both parties agree are more effective in swaying voters.
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