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.
Topics of focus include: message development and delivery; earned and paid media; targeting; and
direct voter contact.
In addition they will need to employ some sort of cloud database systems and opt - in protocols
around voter contact.
It's been a long two years since I first laid my hands on this open - source, web
based voter contact management tool.
Somehow, many campaigns aren't managing to spend much more on the most effective form
of voter contact than on radio.
«54 - person team of analysts, engineers and organizers that provided analytics and technologies
for voter contact, digital, paid media, fundraising and communication» Chief Analytics Officer Dan Wagner
This just in: NGP VAN reports that Democrats have made 54 % more individual
voter contacts in 2014 than at this point in 2010, the last comparable mid-term election.
The group's committee most recently spent $ 30,000
on voter contact efforts for a trio of Senate Republicans: Sens. Carl Marcellino, Kemp Hannon and Tom O'Mara.
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.»
The agenda also included a line, in boldfaced text, that said SCL wanted to use
voter contact lists available to Bolton's campaign to direct people «toward the FB app.»
There are no measures in the Act to give Elections Canada access to phone numbers of people called by parties or access to party
voter contact databases.
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.
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.
The Hotline has two very hot documents from the Republican database - driven turnout machine, one describing their (apparently very successful) absentee ballot program in Michigan and the other listing sample
voter contact numbers by state and district.
The agenda also included a line, in boldfaced text, that said SCL wanted to
use voter contact lists available to Bolton's campaign to direct people «toward the FB app.»
For instance, the grassroots volunteer - management software connected with the voter database system built for Get Out The Vote operations, letting volunteers update information directly — getting more value out of every
individual voter contact.
Voter Activation Network is the world's largest provider of
voter contact technology, available only to Democrats and progressives.
In addition, Mosley stated there was clear evidence someone had used the Conservative Party's
voter contact information database (CIMS) to identify the targets for this voter suppression effort.
And there's a tradition of sharing information and best practices that's been well - established over the years, spearheaded by left - leaning interest groups and labor unions that began experimenting
with voter contact techniques during the George W. Bush years.
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.
Malcolm served as ACT's president in 2003 and 2004, helping to raise over $ 145 million for a well -
developed voter contact effort in key states.
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.
Otherwise, buy pizza for volunteers, put your best volunteers on the payroll for the final weekend, buy umbrellas for voters waiting in line if weather threatens, whatever — good field organizers can always find SOMETHING useful to spend money on, and in -
person voter contact still seems to cut through the message clutter better than most other options.
For political targeters, this feature has been a handy way to connect Facebook to a voter file and automate the process of peer - to -
peer voter contact.
Smart campaigns work ruthlessly to turn every
casual voter contact into a long - term relationship, whether the potential voter «meets» the candidate via the campaign website, social media or in person — witness the email signup features included in almost every voter - canvassing mobile app.
But it's still true that: Parscale worked closely with the Facebook, Google and Twitter embeds, and the Fb team helped him develop a system to plug into Facebook to run a donor acquisition /
voter contact scheme on a vast scale.
Display ads could play a similar role — another place undecided voters will be turning to is the websites of the major political news outlets, in their own states but also the Times, the Post, CNN, etc. — though I suspect that they're likely to cost much more per
actual voter contact than search ads.
Mobile Field: Field should go mobile in a big way in 2012, with mobile apps and mobile optimized websites sending data to canvassers (directions, talking points, even video) and taking it right back from them in the form of information on
voter contacts entered directly into a phone.
Justin Gargiulo is the founder and CEO and VoterTrove, a data management and
voter contact platform offered exclusively to center - right campaigns and causes.
After Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus announced a «50 state strategy» last week that will deploy paid field staffers in every state in a push to rebuild the GOP's
stale voter contact operation, Steele, the party's former chairman, said he «had to laugh.»
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.
«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.
Otherwise, Dems focus on more - mundane tasks like building up the voter file through
repeated voter contact and optimizing their use of the information it contains.
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.
(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.
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.
During the election, Geoffrey's team
maximized voter contact reaching in excess of 75,000 voters daily using a combination of grassroots and digital strategies.
But it appears that a swath of the Democratic establishment is frosty on the idea of shifting away from a system that has grown over the years to
power voter contact for a large number of campaigns, including, by Trevelyan's count, 287 Democrats running for seats in the House of Representatives.
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.
But there's mounting evidence that their efforts — including improved high -
tech voter contact systems — are making an impact, especially given that tea partiers and parts of the GOP base are less - than - thrilled with Romney.