Sentences with phrase «group gets out the vote»

I suspect that this group gets out the vote — and their wallets — in big ways.

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It's a familiar coalition for the Senate Democrats, with many of those groups contributing not just financial resources, but also a get - out - the - vote effort on Election Day that aided Democratic candidates.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get - out - the - vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.

Prof Curtice said all of the parties had to take the «grey vote» seriously because it remains the age group most likely to get out on polling day.

Groups supporting gay marriage have said they would have donated money and helped the senator with get - out - the - vote efforts.

They're working with the town and county Democratic committees on initiatives including get - out - the - vote campaigns in an effort to defeat Zeldin, whom they describe as tightly allied with Trump and his policies, said Eileen Duffy, a Quogue food writer who helped found the group.

On his home turf in the Bronx, the COBA leader serves as vice president of the North Bronx Democratic club (though a source told the Observer the group expects him to resign or get voted out in the days to come).

The state Democratic Party needs to send menacing get - out - the - vote letters to a new group of slackers — its own leaders.

Brian S. Brown (pictured), the president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a telephone interview that the group planned to spend more money, about $ 30,000, on automated phone calls, additional mailings and get - out - the - vote efforts before the election, scheduled for Tuesday.

The Countryside Alliance, to whom the move was understood to have been an olive branch in return for them getting out the vote, has since congratulated her for not bowing to animal rights groups in the misguided pursuit of «electoral nirvana».

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

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While Great Schools Massachusetts used volunteers and paid campaigners to cover polling locations on Election Day, Save Our Schools appeared to overwhelm the pro-charter group with volunteers at the polls and robust get - out - the - vote activities.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.

Two groups of 600,000 users were left out to serve as a control group — one which saw the «I'm Voting» button but didn't get any information about their friends» behavior, and one which saw nothing related to voting at all.

«You all» need clear - headed governance that reflects clear - headed thinking on the part of the governments» electors, all 100,000 of «you all», and not just upon a few, pre-selected, «approved» voting delegates who are easily swayed by the bullshit that routinely gets spewed during pre-vote «information sessions» (indoctrination sessions) in group format whereby NO ONE wants to be seen to be out of step with the awesome ruleing elites... for heavens's sake!