Yeah you’re massively welcome and I hope that’s insanely obvious.
You’re exactly who I’ve been waiting for to see this thread and I was hoping you’d have interest.
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I think for the runoffs the goal is to micro target GOTV efforts with ads tailored to and micro targeted at specific groups. What will the dems holding the Senate tangibly mean to group x? What will it tangibly mean to group y? Each group needs a personally impactful reason to vote for both dem senators.
How to go about doing that is obviously the tough part, but turning out every possible dem voter is the ballgame here.
Agreed.
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Unfortunately GA does not reopen voter registration for the runoff, so we can skip registering new voters.
This is a good post
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You need someone to move the Overton window to make the real message more palatable. I see myself as having a place within an ideological ecosystem. I’m not an angry person. I guess some people expected me to sound like that on Discourse. There’s a bigger picture that I’m looking at.
I don’t think I can quite get on board with democratic socialism, although I am more friendly towards it than more moderate Dems, but I also can’t get on board with the Democratic establishment’s program of a focus-group tested hodgepodge of issue positions.
We should believe in democracy, even if the full expression of democracy means we sometimes don’t get what we want. We should believe in fairness, expressed in a less impenetrable way than the philosophical musings of John Rawls. We should embrace distributive justice as a vehicle for enforcing fairness. We should be pragmatists who don’t default to socialist means, but are not afraid to borrow from the socialist toolbox.
Democrats are bad at messaging because they lack a unifying message the way that conservatives do.
Obviously the Dems will focus on turning out black voters and at a local level organizing, Abrams is going to do an amazing job.
I think we should consider:
Hispanic
Asian
Working class white
Pick one to go after? Or we could try to use FB and target specifically people who are unemployed and/or have pre-existing conditions and message based on healthcare/stimulus/ui.
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I ordered the voter list. The site says it may take a week or two for them to provide it, so I’ll give an update when I have it.
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You da man!
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Large military population in GA, we could try to hang the losers and suckers comment around Perdue and Loeffler’s necks perhaps?
Use FB ads and target groups that would be joined by military members and spouses.
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Might be time for a title change…
Unstuck Saves the Senate
We need to figure out how to set up as a PAC or whichever structure we want, I have a friend who wants to toss us a few bucks already and if we really get going I can float the idea to some people in my poker game. One of them is liberal and has funded a tech startup for millions through meeting a kid at the poker table.
I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk but there’s a chance he makes it rain on us if he likes the idea and cares about the Senate.
I’m in for money. But we don’t want to just give to Fair Fight? I trust Abrams.
I think there’s easily a podcast or two or three in that group.
(Also I’m pretty sure me and @anon10396289 have a Sopranos podcast in us similar to Binge Mode but it would probably be a bitch to swing logically as they have the backing of The Ringer and we, well, don’t but that’s beside the point)
Also the podcast market is so supersaturated now I’d honestly feel better about investing my money with you guys in a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic than a podcast.
At least half of this is capapulting us into the game. It’s very obvious they need new mid level shot callers. Like all of us tell ourselves that someone else is going to do it… but nobody did the last two cycles. I’m done trusting the prestige path kids who aren’t good enough for Wall Street or Silicon Valley to win these races.
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It’s this. They aren’t waking up, they aren’t figuring it out, and nobody else is stepping up to do it. It’s us.
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I think Abrams is all about voter registration rather than the dark arts we are talking about here of turning Rs social media tactics back at them.
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Yeah were not talking podcast. We’re talking about being in the game not trying to influence it from the press box.
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A 501c4 might be better. Dark money doesn’t have limits.
Any group raising more than $1k for a candidate has to file as a PAC and the process is fucking annoying.
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