The benefits of cooperation

Let's take another look at the numbers from the last post. Over the past year, some of the township Democratic organizations worked together with O:TDB on precinct committeeentity recruitment, while others did their own thing. Here are the townships in the first group and the results that they saw:

Township	PCs on 2006 Ballot	PCs on 2008 Ballot	Improvement
Addison	9	20	+11
Milton	29	49	+20
York	23	35	+12
Naperville	6	25	+19
Lisle	5	22	+17
Total	72	151	+79 (108%)

By comparison, here are the results from the townships in which there was not substantial cooperation between O:TDB and the township organization:

Township	PCs on 2006 Ballot	PCs on 2008 Ballot	Improvement
Wayne	3	4	+1
Bloomingdale	10	26	+16
Winfield	9	13	+4
Downers Grove	26	43	+17
Total	48	86	+38 (79%)

A number of points need to be made here. First of all, O:TDB is certainly not claiming to have recruited all 79 of the new PCs in the cooperating townships. For example, of the eleven recruits in Addison township, four were already-appointed PCs, six were found by O:TDB, and one was found by someone else. Secondly, even in the townships that did not work cooperatively with us, we did do some recruiting -- we came up with thirteen PCs in Bloomingdale township and five PCs in Downers Grove township.
Update: Corrected some erroneous numbers.
Update 2: Fixed bad formatting. Thanks to michael in chicago for the tip.