Sentences with phrase «of voter contact»

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs downplayed Obama's direct involvement in the race (and, for good reason, since the Democratic National Committee and the White House did not have a significant presence on television or in terms of voter contact) but noted that «regardless of the outcome, this is a district where... to even be competitive... demonstrates quite a bit.»

After 2000, one of the things that happens within the Republican party is that Karl Rove and then - party chairman Ken Mehlman looked to the Al Gore effort and said, «What we're gonna do is basically invest in exactly these sorts of voter contact operations that the Democrats had on the union side, and build a very strong micro-targeting and canvassing effort for 2004.»

(Aug. 2011) Director of voter contact and new media for the Tennessee Democratic Party, Feb. 2009 - March 2011.

If more races end up as close as Iowa — 8 votes separating Romney and Rick Santorum — quality targeting of voter contact could be decisive.

Can peer - to - peer tools like these solve the problem of voter contact?

The next step is to run a «sustained operation,» with lots of voter contact.

The DCCC's Brandon English came back with an excellent reply, that the fundraising paid for millions of voter contacts that would otherwise not have taken place, and that the D - trip will be going through the voter file once the data's available to try to quantify any effects.

The Obama campaign also provided the party with an extraordinary pool of small donors, millions of voter contacts generated by its expansive field operation, and staffers with specialized expertise and presidential campaign experience.

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.

«Our telecanvassing program contacted 123,138 individuals, resulting in an increase in turnout of 12.57 % among those called, which is equivalent to over 15,478 voters,» Cambridge Analytica says.

Meanwhile, only 6 percent of voters overall said they were contacted by a religious organization about the election.

In the most recent edition of Campaigns & Elections, we learn about the quiet death of a voter - contact technology:

From fundraising to voter contact to social networking to online organizing of offline events, the critical point is that the Obama campaign seems to have integrated their supporter communications to a very effective degree — it's not one tool, it's the combination that matters.

Moreover, the spreadsheet of potential volunteers or donors gets longer and longer as volunteers in the field log contacts about voters in the field who say they want to volunteer for the campaign, or as people signup on the website or engage on social media, and interact with emails and digital content.

(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.)

My book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

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.

The buys announced today are the first stage of airtime reservations in House Majority PAC's fall paid media strategy and a continuation of SEIU's voter contact program which, in recent weeks, included the launch of the union's largest and most - targeted political field campaign in the union's 91 - year history.

Just as campaigns send out «walk lists» of potential supporters for volunteers to visit based on the voter file, they could provide volunteers with an «email list» of neighbors for them to contact directly.

Here's an interesting approach to contacting voters by email, via Charles Lenchner of DemocracyInAction, who thought of it while doing volunteer work for a city council candidate in NYC.

As John Dickerson notes, «According to exit polls, 27 percent of voters said they were contacted by the Obama camp.

Since 2008, Democrats have administered randomized - control experiments to test the impact of GOTV contact on voters with different score combinations, with the goal of quantifying where those contacts are most likely to produce a net vote.

His book, Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, deals with how American political campaigns mobilize, organize, and target their field operations, using large numbers of volunteers and paid part - timer workers to contact voters at home at the door or over the phone.

Cuomo, in an executive order, directed all state agencies to mail or provide electronic voter registration forms to members of the public who have had contact with the agencies.

Voters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constitueVoters are warming to the idea of an Ed Miliband - led government, and Labour is contacting more voters in local constituevoters in local constituencies.

With an office in Washington, DC, Project Vote's staff are experts in the fields of voting rights, election law, and large - scale voter contact programs.

I'm glad they joined the 21st century for voter contact,» says Rich Beeson, political director for the Republican National Committee (RNC), which is running the bulk of John McCain's ground game.

(Data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study reveal a similar disparity — a majority of Democratic voters in swing states in 2010 and 2012 recall receiving phone and mail contact, but almost no voters recall someone knocking on their door.)

New York League of Conservation Voters Endorses Brian Kavanagh for New York State Senate District 26 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 CONTACT: Jordan Levine (NYLCV)- 917-392-8965 / [email protected] The New York League of Conservation Voters, which works to make environmental sustainability a top political and policy priority in New York State, has announced its endorsement of Brian Kavanagh, who is running for New York State Senate in District 26.

A good District leader is the first point of contact on the ground level with voters.

Topics of focus include: message development and delivery; earned and paid media; targeting; and direct voter contact.

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.

Do you have a contact you could ask about what the registrar of voters does with the information you collect?

Cable TV ads, which usually cost less per voter contact than broadcast, particularly if you're also using the natural segmentation of cable audiences (think: Military Channel vs. Lifetime) to reach particular demographic slices with the right messaging.

«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.»

Walk - lists, after all, come from a database, and voter contacts yield plenty of information ripe for tabulation and analysis.

The most taken - for - granted forms of online electoral collective action, such as donating money and contacting voters, are premised upon years of technical development, infrastructure building, and knowledge creation, as well as enormous investments of financial and human resources.

The incident could pose a devastating setback for Sanders so close to the start of the Democratic primary: Until access is restored to the NGP VAN, the candidate's organizers will have to perform the basic functions of the field program — phone banks, voter contact, visibility — without an electronic system centralizing their efforts.

The campaign had no phone number for roughly half of younger voters, and it relied heavily on Facebook - driven peer - to - peer outreach to connect with people under 30 (about a million people installed the app, yielding ~ 5 million voter contacts).

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...

«A smaller number, 44 percent of these likely voters, say they haven't seen a Teachout commercial or been contacted by the Teachout campaign.

Back in political consultant school, they taught us that campaigns SHOULD spend about 70 % of their money on voter contact, nearly all of that on TV, radio, and direct mail (Hey — it was 2002 — 2003).

So, if you're expecting a $ 15 million dollar race, a decent back - of - the - envelope budget would be to budget $ 10.5 million for voter contact, and if you wanted to divide your spending up like a commercial marketer, you'd earmark about $ 2.3 million of that for digital.

Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who directed the campaign's online organizing work, offered some additional examples of how online activity via MyBO was directed into useful real - world voter contact or field work.

Here's the core takeaway: the internet has revived the art of voter - to - voter contact, which had atrophied during the broadcast television era of politics.

Sources say Reed, who already has a strong ground game and who's hit the level of paid voter contact he needs, cut the national committee a check for $ 50,000.

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York and his wife, Chirlane McCray, went door to door contacting voters for Hillary Clinton on Saturday in Des Moines.

Trip Radtke is a proven voter contact expert, whose strategic consultation has helped elect conservatives at all levels of government.

He most recently led voter contact efforts for the North Carolina and Mississippi Republican takeovers of their respective House of Representatives, and assisted in Philip Gunn's successful campaign for Speaker of the Mississippi House.

The Burnham team's polling found that of 29,020 eligible Labour voters contacted between 15 July and 29 July, 37.3 % said they would support Burnham on their first preference, 27.6 % Corbyn, 9.6 % Cooper and 5.8 % Kendall.