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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-02-04 03:16 AM
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Question about GOTV in Saginaw tomorrow
Edited on Tue Nov-02-04 03:21 AM by 5thGenDemocrat
I talked to my MoveOn coordinator tonight.
He said "Did you know you're living in one of the most Democratic precincts in the state of Michigan?'
"Yeah, Ben." I replied. "I've been trying to tell you that for the last two weeks." My precinct (14th, City of Saginaw) generally votes, oh, 75-25(D) -- not really THE MOST Dem in the state, but still pretty Dem.
My job tomorrow is to contact the 80 Dem voters we've already identified, with admittedly less effort than could have strictly been expended, and get them to the polls to toss their "Ds" onto our ever-growing pile here in the web of the Thumb of the Lower Peninsula of the State of Michigan.
I am not responsible for the bean counting of the votes or to tell MoveOn what time these voters actually tripped the lever. This is the responsibility of Vince, who waits at the other end of the canvassing pipeline. My job is to oversee a group of volunteers who make the calls and the house calls and chauffeur the taxi rides in order to help Saginaw exercise the most basic of democratic rights from 7 am to 8 pm Eastern today.
I can either expend my particular efforts on these 80 pre-contacted voters -- all of whom will vote Dem, or contact all 550 names and encourage them and abet their getting to the polls -- knowing that the vote will likely split around 420-130(D) -- a 290-vote plurality.
Does MoveOn want raw numbers or do they want Democratic voters at Immanuel Baptist (site of the 14th Precinct vote)? I can easily get more people to the polls -- but MoveOn won't, most likely, have any numbers to quote, because I'll have all my people making phone calls to get the herd to the railhead.
I'd rather get the fannies out and let MoveOn worry about their numbers. Is it more important to keep MO happy or to round up the voters?
What to do?
John
Hello out there. Don't forget to vote.
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