Sentences with phrase «turnout operation»

We've talked about his small - donor base before, and he's also been building data - driven field / turnout operations in later states.

In large part, it will depend on factors outside their immediate control, since even the best turnout operation is usually only good for a few percentage points in the actual vote total.

The first, written last week with Peter Slevin, focuses on voter turnout operations in Iowa and opens with this nugget about the Obama campaign:

As the polls showed the race tightening, he says, «reporters frequently focused on other factors, such as early voting and Democrats» supposedly superior turnout operation.»

In that case, Obama's grassroots effectiveness could be key to victories in battleground states across the U.S. Of course, the Democratic turnout operation end up being just another nail in a Republican presidential coffin already well - sealed if the economy continues to improve.

Both campaigns are spending big money on TV ads, and Obama's grassroots turnout operation is about to go into full gear.

Though individual candidates can't rely on Obama's national political machine to mobilize the masses this time around, they CAN use online video, social media and above all email to organize their own turnout operations across the country.

In fact, the long Democratic primary season turned out to be a boon for the Obama online analytics team, since it gave them the opportunity to slice and dice their data in every state across the country, providing a solid foundation for the Fall general election turnout operation.

Fundamentally, this election is a giant turnout operation for the Conservatives.

would have roughly ten weeks to organize a nation - wide turnout operation, an apparatus their Democratic opponent will have been building for over a year by the time election day comes around in November.

And as the authors note, tactics aren't everything: the candidates» own records and reputations — and current Governor Bob McDonnell's ethical problems — determine Virginia's basic political terrain and establish the constraints in which the dueling turnout operations can work.

Database - driven turnout operations?

Bishop has had years to develop a successful turnout operation.

Kansas Democrats Turn to Data in Governor's Race and DCCC plans big turnout operation aimed at black voters.

Their 2004 microtargeting turnout operation is still lauded by political professionals as both innovative and successful.

But we've already seen that Obama's campaign is willing to dedicate vast resources to rebuilding its grassroots infrastructure, and the resulting turnout operation promises to dwarf any realistic Republican competition.

I think we CAN point to elections in which good organizing and outreach made critical difference — Virginia's 2013 statewide elections come to mind, for instance, and you can make a good argument that Mitt Romney would have beaten Barack Obama in 2012 had the latter not run an epic data - targeted turnout operation.

Backlash over anti-Obama email in New Hampshire Someone's keeping the faith: Email details Huckabee's Michigan evangelical turnout operation.

Another candidate in the race, Assemblywoman Grace Meng, has been endorsed by the Queens Democratic establishment and almost every elected official in the district, and obviously has her own key turnout operation in her back pocket.

«We know when it's hot, we're the only ones out there,» says Valdovinos, slighting the opposition's turnout operation as he drives through a wide boulevard en route to an early evening canvass.

The Journal's Christopher Rhoads profiles the competing turnout operations, providing great details about how volunteers are trained and coordinated by paid staff, as well as how political databases play into the entire process.

And really, by the 2004 election, they built what was by far the most sophisticated electoral effort at the time, driven by extensive micro-targeting, voter contact and turnout operation online.

McCain needs to make sure that the Republican National Committee is as well funded as possible so that the voter identification, contact and turnout operations traditionally run by the party are taken care of.

GOP officials said internal polling shows Republicans could limit losses to six to 10 House seats and two or three Senate seats if the strategy — combined with the party's significant financial advantage and battled - tested turnout operation — proves successful.

The answer is unclear because it's never been tried, and the W.F.P.'s previous efforts can't be used as an example, because some of the very turnout operations that drive it will be on the sidelines.

The first, written last week with Peter Slevin, focuses on voter turnout operations in Iowa and opens with this nugget about the Obama campaign: In Sen. Barack...

Both campaigns are spending big money on TV ads, and Obama's grassroots turnout operation is about to go into...

Those are just the tools — to put them to work, the campaign will need an email strategy, a recruitment strategy, a social media strategy, a grassroots strategy (often including a mobile component), an advertising strategy, a fundraising strategy, and last but never least, a turnout operation to actually get people to vote.

The same basic ideas that a lot of us in the Democratic political world have been talking about, that Democratic campaigns ignored big - picture messaging around the economy, the health care law, immigration and other base - mobilizing issues while still running a turnout operation that was highly proficient technically.

Much of the Republican ground game this year instead was «outsourced» to others (a phrase I read weeks ago and would love to track down)-- tens of millions of the dollars Romney raised in June and July went to the state parties, for instance, which were in charge of building their own (functionally independent) turnout operations.

Back to now: the polls are tight, the ads have run, and the turnout operations are going full - on.

Hot on the heels of the VAN's decision to offer website hosting and CRM services, the Democratic voter turnout operation has decided to move even farther from its core competence: Voter Activation Network to Launch New Technology For Republican National Committee The architects of the...

Hot on the heels of the VAN's decision to offer website hosting and CRM services, the Democratic voter turnout operation has decided to move even farther from its core competence:

Thus the Democratic primary Mr. Lancman is competing in will literally be the only race on the ballot and turnout operations will define the race.

On election day, the outreach and data - collection operation morphed into a voter - turnout operation, helping to deliver Obama victories in traditionally Republican areas and states.

Known for its left - leaning politics and formidable voter turnout operation, the Working Families Party, founded by a coalition of labor unions and liberal organizations, enjoyed a banner year in the 2009 New York City elections.

The episode began during the 2009 elections, after the Working Families Party, backed by labor unions and armed with a formidable voter turnout operation, won a series of surprise victories for liberal candidates.

They're in a position to provide a meaningful edge in turnout operation that she can exploit.

DiNapoli, who was previously backed the Civil Service Employees Association, has long been supported by the state's labor community, which in turn has helped his voter turnout operation.

«Their turnout operation is exquisite,» a senior Democratic strategist said.

But turnout operations are key, and with the traditional voter - rich Manhattan base carved so much it's minced, the candidates are shifting their focus north.

Visits to the two headquarters and conversations with campaign staff members suggest that Chabot's voter identification and turnout operation is more advanced.

Think of it this way: if you're a member of SEIU 1199, are you going to listen to your union's official endorsement and turnout operation, or a minor party that your union helped to found?

Known for its left - leaning politics and formidable voter turnout operation, the Working Families Party enjoyed a banner year in the 2009 New York City elections, playing a critical role in the election of Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, and John C. Liu, the city comptroller, as well as several members of the City Council.

Republicans have gloated about their advancements in campaign science since being infamously outclassed by President Barack Obama's voter turnout operation in 2012.

The Cruz campaign, which sliced and diced voter profiles thousands of different ways and developed its own sophisticated targeting and turnout operation — appealing to some Iowa voters on the issue of fireworks deregulation, for example — stopped psychologically profiling voters entirely after South Carolina, the third early - state contest, when the pace of the campaign picked up.