Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is
contacting more voters in local constituencies.
Separate YouGov research finds that up to Friday, Labour had
contacted more voters locally than the Tories, in person, by phone, via leaflets and by email.
Not exact matches
Masses of data about each
voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign
contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target
voters more precisely than ever before.
(The news coverage suggests Barrett with his labor allies had an edge on the ground, but Walker certainly also had his own field operation running and some numbers suggest they've
contacted more than 60 % of all registered
voters in the state at least once in person.)
This just in: NGP VAN reports that Democrats have made 54 %
more individual
voter contacts in 2014 than at this point in 2010, the last comparable mid-term election.
And as
voters get hit with
more and
more advertising / media messages every day and through every conceivable medium, personal
contact is one of the few things that can begin to break through the information clutter.
We've talked repeatedly in these pages about the Democratic advantages when it comes to the actual mechanics of running political campaigns this cycle: they're running
more ads, building a strong
voter contact program and raising
more money (for better or worse) than their Republican counterparts.
«While we first expected to reuse much of the ground breaking
voter contact software we built for Democrats, we soon realized that Republicans are
more interested in scaring
voters than talking to them.»
We've talked repeatedly in these pages about the Democratic advantages when it comes to the actual mechanics of running political campaigns this cycle: they're running
more ads, building a strong
voter contact program and raising
more money (for better or worse) than their Republican...
More than 9 million calls made via the online phone - banking tools on MyBO and Neighbor to Neighbor allowed remote volunteers to help «clean'the
voter file before local teams ever made
contact.
Announcing PDM's new project, Civic Hall; how the GOP's 2014
voter contact program worked; civic tech and volunteerism; and much, much
more.
If
more races end up as close as Iowa — 8 votes separating Romney and Rick Santorum — quality targeting of
voter contact could be decisive.
The report concludes that the primary cause of the error was down to systematic over-representation of Labour
voters —
more likely to be at home and willing to be interviewed — which can only be rectified by using
more expensive methods of
contacting people.
A local source
contacted The Bronx Chronicle said that one document turned over to federal authorities shows that some candidates in unnamed Bronx districts got
more votes than the number of
voters who went into the booths.
And
more voters have seen Katko commercials and been
contacted by his campaign,» Greenberg said.
So while the Tories are spending heavily on
more conventional forms of campaigning - such as posters and leaflets - Labour has been busy making direct
contact with
voters.
And then there is the actual
contact with real
voters, which is
more granular and gritty.
«Additionally, while both Faso and Heaney commercials have each been seen or heard by two - thirds of the electorate, and slightly
more voters say they've been
contacted by the Heaney campaign, primary
voters say Heaney is running the
more negative campaign by a 36 - 20 percent margin.»
The organization has made defeating Farley its No. 1 priority, and has launched an «F is for Farley» campaign that will include several rounds of mail, TV and radio ads, direct
voter contact, phone banking and
more.
What's
more, Obama's team has had much
more time and money to
contact voters nationwide, while Romney's campaign was focused on individual states during the Republican primary campaign.
But there is a feeling that many are unaware of Thursday's European and local elections, and there is
more social media, and less personal
contact, to win
voters over.
It is clear that the only thing that will force lawmakers to move their positions is
MORE public pressure and direct
contact from
voters at home.
By Election Day, the sprawling network of mostly volunteer canvassers had made
contact with
more than 1.5 million
voters.
I encourage all Ward 3
voters to read
more about me and my campaign at TomTronsdal.com and
contact me anytime with questions or to share your experiences.