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).
Not exact matches
Between phone calls, mailings, and knocking
on doors, Reed estimated his pro-family, pro-free market group had 58.8 million
voter contacts aimed at the conservative faith community.
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.
Critically, your supporters need to CHOOSE to allow your campaign to access their friends, but once they've agreed to do so, the technology matches them with individual
voters the campaign has prioritized for
contact based
on its
voter file data.
Geo - targeting, keyword - targeting and the fact that search ads are pay - per - click makes this strategy cost - attractive — you can concentrate resources
on voters in particular states or metropolitan areas, and you only pay when you actually get a
voter contact (i.e., when someone clicks).
(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.)
A last - minute addition to the arsenal: the campaign's new media and tech teams managed to turn out a very efficient online polling place finder
on a short deadline just in time for the general election, which they promoted via online ads, the email list and direct
voter contact.
Two cases in point from the Obama side: super.del.egates.us is a wiki - based
contact list for
voters to use to reach the precious unpledged delegates to the Democratic Convention, while Yrmomma4obama aims to help young
voters (and those too young to vote themselves) to use text messages to persuade their friends and family to jump
on the Obama bandwagon.
Senate Democrats are also touting their volunteer efforts in the race: Some 3,000 volunteers making 115,000 phone calls, knocking
on 90,000 doors and
contacting 30,000
voters.
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.
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.
They'll all happen
on the same day, at the same time, with the same agenda — our first step towards building the largest person - to - person
voter registration and
voter contact operation our city has ever seen.
Learning from Obama's success in
voter - targeting, campaigns
on both will try to use data to
contact the
voters whose appearance at the polls could put them over the top.
We call
on the
voters to
contact their representative in Congress, and the Obama administration, and to tell them to end negotiations
on the Transpacific Partnership.
(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.)
A good District leader is the first point of
contact on the ground level with
voters.
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).
By mid-November, in its key seats, Labour had
contacted over 15,000
voters per constituency, 21 %
on average.
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.
Because direct, person - to - person
contact with the right
voters may help candidates — particularly Democrats but also some Republicans — turn out the people they need
on Election Day.
(CNN)-- President Barack Obama's campaign touted an intensely focused ground game going into election week
on Saturday, citing their robust
voter contact efforts as a reason the president will prevail against his rival Mitt Romney.
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.
In an email, Johnson said, «I chose to spend funds
on visibility and
voter contact.
I kindly ask for your support in this campaign by sharing it
on your Facebook and Twitter accounts - every new
voter we make
contact with can make the difference this November!
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.
A direct correlation can be found with districts I carried and areas my grassroots team focused
on with door - to - door and other
voter contact efforts.
We did it by focusing
on a narrow communications and
voter contact program governed by the targeting.
If you run a campaign based
on Facebook you lose this important face - to - face
contact with your
voters.
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.»
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.
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It's been a long two years since I first laid my hands
on this open - source, web based
voter contact management tool.
A Committee Person's duties offer many opportunities to meet people: seeking signatures
on designating petitions; selling tickets to Party functions; canvassing for absentees and new
voters; calling and
contacting people
on election days; finding volunteers.
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.
Strategists sought solace in any survey that looked good, but with less than 48 hours remaining before the polls close
on Tuesday, both parties concentrated
on direct
voter contact, built
on months of sophisticated analysis of the electorate and microtargeting of tens of millions of
voters around the country.
Based
on voter data and predictive modeling, the campaign's 100 volunteers have made over 267,000
voter contact calls, and have knocked
on over 14,400 doors, Alcivar said.
«Tens of thousands of
voters have been
contacted districtwide, with an emphasis
on veterans, women, labor members, teachers, and college students,» said Abraham White.
Based
on what I know of Issenberg's book and my understanding of how
voter contact works in general, here's what I think the Obama campaign is doing.
We are fully invested in Harry Teague's
voter contact efforts and remain confident he will win
on election night.»
During an Oct. 17 League of Women
Voters forum, the second of two debates between the Democrat and his Republican opponent Richard Dionisio, Rodier repeated his claims that he had been
contacted by police regarding a FOIL request he made
on Aug. 18 for information related to the 2015 Harrison budget, including a detailed list of the town's expenses.
Grant Shapps MP gave an excellent presentation
on e-campaigning and
on the benefits of
contacting 7,000
voters a week and to do so with next to no funds!
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.»
If you live in the district of one of these senators and would like to work
on showing him that his constituents don't support bringing DeVos's vouchers to PA, please
contact Ed
Voters.
Bowen's office says it
contacts every California high school each year encouraging them to offer
voter registration to eligible students with either paper registration applications or a link
on the high school website to the state's online
voter registration application at RegisterToVote.ca.gov.
Last week, the BC Greens said they worked with the Victoria - based company briefly in 2016, noting they had asked the company to work
on a new
voter contact database and a website.
Although
contact is restricted between students and
voters, a parent alerted the school district that it wouldn't be safe to have kids and strangers
on the same campus after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings, board member Erica Whitfield said.
It's common knowledge that candidates hot
on the campaign trail have to make as much
contact with
voters as humanly possible.
Responsible for meeting strict
voter contact and volunteer recruitment goals
on a weekly basis
The curriculum is organized into seven instruction modules, which are intended to help participants clarify their thinking
on why they're running and how to articulate their reason concisely; how to plan and budget for the race; what research would be helpful and how to get it done; how to raise money and what rules are in place governing what you can collect and how you can collect it; how to ensure you have sufficient time and opportunity to get out there and make
contact with
voters; leveraging social media; and how to get out the vote
on election day.