GOTV

If it makes you feel any better, the DNC is apparently still better at GOTV campaigns than the RNC. The evangelicals, however, could teach everyone a thing or two.

Some Democrats suspected that the ballot initiatives were engineered by Rove and the GOP, but religious activists claim otherwise.

In Michigan, Republican state Sen. Alan Cropsey introduced a bill to ban same-sex marriage in October 2003 and assumed it would have the support of his party. Instead, the Roman Catholic Church in Michigan became the amendment's main booster, spending nearly $1 million to secure its passage.

"I couldn't say anything publicly, because I would have been blasted for it, but the Republican Party was not helpful at all," Cropsey said. "It's not like they were the instigators. They were the Johnny-come-latelies, if anything."

Michael Howden, executive director of Stronger Families for Oregon, said it was a similar situation in his state. "There's been no contact whatsoever, no coordinating, no pushing" by anyone at the White House or in the Bush-Cheney campaign, he said.

At least we know Karl Rove's not the genius everyone thinks he is.