A little over two weeks left, and people are losing their freakin’ minds. And I get it: We have a lot more to lose than they do. If we win, their lives will improve (whether they want to admit it ...
I’ve done some letters from Vote Forward. I’m not sure it’s the way. For one, you have to hand-write messages, which is time consuming at scale. For another thing, personally, I would like to be partisan. I want Trump to lose, and I’d like to send my get out the vote letters to Democrats.
I’m not saying they’re doing any kind of bad thing, but I did think about finding addresses for Democratically registered people in swing states, and just doing my own thing batch-printing letters encouraging them to vote with handwritten signature and addresses on the envelopes. I think I might be able to have a serious impact that way.
Also, what happened to text banking? I thought about trying to do that but I haven’t been able to find where to sign up.
You are writing to likely dems with Vote Forward. The political campaign ones are explicitly going to likely dems, the social campaign ones are going to underrepresented demographics - which typically lean towards dems. Their research has just found that writing partisan messages doesn’t work as well for increasing voter turnout, so they say not to write parsian messages. Similar for how writing by hand works better
There are still text banks still open! Here’s some with Field Team 6
I know for me personally, I don’t want anything printed out ever. It’s just waste, and if I see any flyer or those letters for example it just upsets me. I get the sentiment and maybe in years past, but outside of official communications from an agency don’t send me shit.
Helpful links
Register to vote if you haven’t. Deadlines are within days in the many states
Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online
Write letters to voters in swing states or competitive downballot races
I’ve done some letters from Vote Forward. I’m not sure it’s the way. For one, you have to hand-write messages, which is time consuming at scale. For another thing, personally, I would like to be partisan. I want Trump to lose, and I’d like to send my get out the vote letters to Democrats.
I’m not saying they’re doing any kind of bad thing, but I did think about finding addresses for Democratically registered people in swing states, and just doing my own thing batch-printing letters encouraging them to vote with handwritten signature and addresses on the envelopes. I think I might be able to have a serious impact that way.
Also, what happened to text banking? I thought about trying to do that but I haven’t been able to find where to sign up.
You are writing to likely dems with Vote Forward. The political campaign ones are explicitly going to likely dems, the social campaign ones are going to underrepresented demographics - which typically lean towards dems. Their research has just found that writing partisan messages doesn’t work as well for increasing voter turnout, so they say not to write parsian messages. Similar for how writing by hand works better
There are still text banks still open! Here’s some with Field Team 6
https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?show_all_events=true&tag_ids=22573
That makes perfect sense. I’ll finish up the pile I have today, and I also signed up for text banking. Thanks for the link! This is wonderful.
Also note that one the link I sent earlier shows other volunteer opportunities like phonebanking and canvasing (door knocking)
I know for me personally, I don’t want anything printed out ever. It’s just waste, and if I see any flyer or those letters for example it just upsets me. I get the sentiment and maybe in years past, but outside of official communications from an agency don’t send me shit.