This article was based on the teased video report:
This. Is there any excuse for him not to do it? Not my Senator, but I’m going to contact him anyway. I’ll contact my Senators and Rep as well.
eta: Due to high volume, Senator Blumenthal’s office is only able to receive online messages from his constituents. If you are writing from outside of Connecticut, and wish to contact the Senator, please send a letter to the Senator’s mailing address.
eta: to Kamala, Dianne and Ted
This is something Richard Blumenthal tweeted today:
“Shocked & appalled—I just left a 90 minute classified briefing on foreign malign threats to our elections. From spying to sabotage, Americans need to see & hear these reports.”
He doesn’t accept messages from people outside CT, but you’re one of my Senators. This kind of information can be read into the congressional record just like Mike Gravel entered in the Pentagon Papers into the record without any fear of prosecution. Someone should have the courage to do the right thing instead of just begging Trump to do it.
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I’m literally surrounded by trump signs I thought the same thing, but there’s no dem signs anywhere around me for a reason so I backed off on that idea.
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well that’s stupid if they really believe “they’ll get credit” there, but I guess you can’t actually say “well we figure a bunch of them might die”.
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More from Captain Coward
https://twitter.com/senblumenthal/status/1290801643777392640?s=21
https://twitter.com/senblumenthal/status/1290801645404794881?s=21
When one side plays nice and the other cheats, the cheaters win you fucking imbecile
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Trump is President because Obama chose to stay silent about this same exact shit. Democrats are hopeless.
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I got you on this one. I’ve written to Blumenthal a bunch of times. His office always gives me a response and most of the time you can tell it was actually written by a staffer to my very specific comments/questions. Also written to Murphy before but his office usually just sends generic email back about whatever topic you select in the header.
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Posting in an historic thread
Pronunciations ITT
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We are absolutely fucked.
I don’t know. In my experience, July is too early to be canvassing for November, anyway. People have really short attention spans. The primary is one thing, when you’re trying to increase name recognition, knock on literally every door, or do follow-up visits. For the general, I’ve never had canvassing shifts kick in until mid to late September.
June and July are for volunteer recruitment so you can have an army ready to go when you start GOTV and persuasion efforts.
ETA: that total includes unanswered doors. Response rate on canvassing is usually 10%-15%, so make of that what you will
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Do doorknockers try to do registration as well or is it only used to drive GOTV for registered voters? If they’re trying to do registration too, I’d think you’d want them out early and often, especially in states with early registration deadlines. I also think you’d want people out earlier this year because more people are going to be doing mail in ballots where they can, so you need to start getting people to request ballots as soon as they can in their area.
Also, based on the tweet it doesn’t seem like they’re holding back on doorknocking because they believe it will have more impact later. It reads like the whole in person operation is going to be smaller throughout the campaign b/c of covid. Which seems really risky given that the Biden camp isn’t exactly known for its online organizing prowess.
Joe is inexplicably talking again:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1291088670305509378?s=21
Gonna be a long 3 months.
Nah, by definition, canvassing is only done to registered voters. We always carry a couple forms with us in case someone else in the house needs it (just turned 18, just moved in, etc), but the only way they get on the list to begin with is because an organizer pulled it from the state voter registry files.
Also, it’s extremely rare to canvass a voter registered to the opposite party. Lists are usually your party and independents. A lot of people shy away from canvassing because they are afraid of knocking on mean Republicans’ doors, but hostility is incredibly rare because we don’t send you to republican doors in the first place.
I have no idea how other states are doing it right now. I am lucky to live in a state that already had mail-in voting, so moving minds about that is something we don’t have to stress as much.
I also don’t know what other down ballot campaigns are doing. We are discussing safe canvassing or lit drops for Ammar’s campaign, so it’s really hard to capture the true efforts across the Democratic board based on one number put out by the same people who estimated the Tulsa crowd size, heh. I think the Missouri results show that effective campaigning by down ballot candidates and causes can change margins, thus changing the game. This twitter thread describes what I’m talking about:
https://twitter.com/psephologist/status/1290992217004347392?s=20
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I think they should just run ads where Joe says C’mon Man!
Probably not a bad ad for the target audience. Can Trump even drive?
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that’s a really good question. A golf cart, maybe.