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.
Not exact matches
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.
In the real world, people
working for specific Democratic campaigns (Howard Dean's, for a start) and Democratic institutions (like the DNC) CHOSE to test, implement and use tech ranging from blogs to self - organizing toolkits and
voter contact databases.
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.
The National Political Do Not
Contact Registry is a non-partisan, non-profit org that is
working to stop pols from calling
voters at dinner.
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.
Announcing PDM's new project, Civic Hall; how the GOP's 2014
voter contact program
worked; civic tech and volunteerism; and much, much more.
Geoffrey began his career as a teacher in Paterson New Jersey, and after
working in education, transitioned into developing grassroots
voter contact strategies for progressive campaigns.
As Democratic campaigners search for the best tools to track
voters and
voter contacts, some of them are looking at
working with their
voter data in a platform from the upstart nonpartisan firm NationBuilder instead of with software from NGP VAN, which many Democrats have used for years.
«We're
working hard, just trying to
contact every
voter we can and respond to questions from folks in the media and citizens who have questions about issues,» Faso says.
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.
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.