Sentences with phrase «of voter outreach»

She formed the New York 2nd District Democrats to defeat King, and is using a strategy of protests, town halls and a planned summer campaign of voter outreach and registration to boost voter turnout.

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Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

After launching its services for congressional candidates in the 2014 cycle, Cambridge Analytica made a dramatic public entry into U.S. presidential politics in 2015, working on what was touted at the time as a groundbreaking voter outreach effort on behalf of Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Tex.).

But in the years in between, developers of everything from dating apps to voter - outreach tools used by the Obama campaign, capitalized on Facebook's rules to extract massive amounts of data about Facebook users and their friends.

Marco Rubio's close connections to the Tea Party could alienate Latino voters from him, despite all of his outreach efforts.

Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.

Mark DeMoss, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign helping with outreach to evangelicals, says he has been discouraging Republican voters from making too big a deal of the candidates» religious faith.

Many of us followed Sasha's 2012 articles on Slate.com, which detailed how the Obama campaign team was using data, analytics and the scientific method to optimize voter outreach and get the people they needed to the polls.

Washington Post online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign's use of niche social networking sites for voter outreach:

Guess what: most of us use the internet in some way, whether on a computer or a cell phone, and online tools from advertising to social media outreach can be great ways to connect with donors, volunteers and voters.

The best answer seems to be a combination of targeted and untargeted outreach: online communicators can use a sharpshooting approach when appropriate, delivering targeted messages and ads to particular voters and connecting personally with chosen bloggers, Twitter enthusiasts and journalists.

Of course, Jones has been blitzing the airwaves too, but targeted targeted outreach can deliver specific messages to black Alabamans that might risk blowback from white voters if they were broadcast widely.

Washington Post online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign's use of niche social networking sites for voter outreach: And as of Friday, he's the first candidate to have profiles on BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com, popular soc - nets in the...

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

With individual chapters investigating crucial aspects of his online communications juggernaut in depth, the e-book covers strategy, campaign structure and technology, online outreach and recruiting, field organizing, voter / volunteer moblization and of course online fundraising.

Meanwhile, we've seen Hillary Clinton build a modern digital campaign determined to marry data and direct outreach to wring every bit of advantage out of each online (and offline) encounter with a voter.

Here's one angle of the Brown campaign that hasn't gotten much attention: Brown's folks used free Google online tools to help organize grassroots voter outreach and to collect field data.

Union President Mike Fishman lauded the assemblyman's «strong record of advocating for working families,» and said 32BJ is committed to a voter outreach campaign to assist him.

Political data nerds LOVE to use tools like the VAN backend voter management system to slice and dice outreach lists by all kinds of criteria — age, location, voting history, and....

The union, which represents more than 70,000 workers in New York, is endorsing Schneiderman at City Hall in Manhattan this morning and has pledged to do a voter outreach campaign — including mailings, door - to - door canvassing and member mobilization — in support of Schneiderman's election.

Epolitics.com contributor Sangeeth Peruri is the CEO and founder of VoterCircle, a platform that helps campaigns leverage friend - to - friend connections for voter outreach.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

And while it's an uphill battle facing a heavily entrenched foe, outreach efforts will give Staten Island and Brooklyn voters — both old and new — food for thought the next time they go to the polls: ranging from alleged campaign finance fraud; to Grimm's threatening of a reporter with physical violence; to his latest federal fraud and tax charges, he is quite a colorful character with a very colorful history just begging to be lampooned.

Winner Joe Lhota spent around $ 1.5 million overall on voter outreach, of which nearly $ 463,000 went to Target Enterprises for TV advertising and around $ 290,000 went to Target Enterprises earmarked for «cable and digital ads.»

This constant flow of voter information allowed the campaign to refine its outreach over time, helping it to use resources, particularly volunteer time, efficiently.

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).

Republican candidates have found it difficult to gain a foothold in some parts of Queens, but the GOP remains dedicated to providing an alternative to Queens County Democratic candidates and have since stepped up efforts with youth outreach, voter registration drives, and dedicating full support for Councilman Dan Halloran's bid for Congress.

The CFB's voter outreach arm, NYC Votes, is helping to lead a lobbying coalition to Albany on Tuesday in support of the VEA.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

For Biss, the outreach to the African - American community is much like his campaign as a whole: seeking support largely from younger voters among the roughly 30 percent of African - Americans who backed Sanders for president in 2016.

Included in his long list of those accomplishments were vigorous member outreach, fund - raising and on - line interaction with voters, elected officials and prospective candidates.

(announced June 13, 2015) Youth outreach program manager in Des Moines for the League of Conservation Voters, Aug. 2013 - June 2015.

Lazio's campaign is hoping to target Latino voters, and in September hired Teresa Santiago, the former director of Amigos de Pataki, to conduct ethnic outreach.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

To prepare voters, Board of Elections Commissioners Reginald LaFayette and Carolee Sunderland have launched a voter outreach drive to increase awareness of the new machines and allow voters to see them — up close and personal.

After launching its services for congressional candidates in the 2014 cycle, Cambridge Analytica made a dramatic public entry into U.S. presidential politics in 2015, working on what was touted at the time as a groundbreaking voter outreach effort on behalf of Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Tex.).

Bryan Erwin, 41, of Mattituck and Washington, D.C., used his experience working for former Sen. Tom Daschle (D - S.D.) and in the Obama administration to form a nonprofit that works with grass - roots groups on voter outreach in Suffolk County.

She claimed her lobbying of county committee members was simply normal outreach to prime Democratic voters.

Rascoe said last week's elections showed the strength of a motivated Democratic base that could raise money from outside the county and deploy paid canvassers from groups like Citizen Action and the Working Families Party to conduct voter outreach.

Canvassing is changing but it remains one of the most effective ways for campaigns and groups to do voter outreach.

Pastor Mark Burns, an African - American supporter of Donald Trump who has been defending the candidate's recent outreach to minority voters in the media, tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, mocking her outreach to black voters.

The DCCC has undertaken a new black voter outreach initiative — which the committee says is the most expansive and expensive project in the history of the DCCC — that has consisted of demographic focus groups, battleground polling, ad testing and renewed ground game in black neighborhoods.

Cuomo also announced that he had tapped four Republicans, including former state party Chairman Patrick Barrett and former state Sen. Michael Balboni of Nassau County, to lead his outreach to GOP voters.

Finnegan helped coordinate members» voter - outreach efforts in support of de Blasio.

It was during door to door voter outreach for this campaign in 2012 that Caitlin came across a colony of community cats, instantly falling in love with 3 kittens who she soon adopted.

We also fought off a «right to farm» measure in Oklahoma, but, despite the efforts of our rural outreach team, a similar measure squeaked by voters in Missouri by less than half of one percent of the vote.

Even ignoring the offensive work of the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, and other Koch front groups, the recent focus on Latino and Hispanic voter outreach is clearly a self - serving political tactic, where broadly - defined groups of people are used as a means to an end.

The Do It Yourself Markham or DIY Markham social media campaign is at the centre of an overall voter outreach program that includes direct mail flyers, registration cards, print ads and billboards.

As part of its outreach to U.S. officials, SCL is touting more than 20 years of experience in shaping voter perceptions and advising militaries and governments around the world on how to conduct effective psychological operations.

One of the founding directors of Global Science Research, the firm hired by the Trump campaign's data - targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to harvest Facebook user data for its voter - outreach operation, now works at Facebook as a human computer interaction researcher.