This is a Daily Kos diary from yesterday
by Eclectablog
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This past week, Organizing for America (OFA) has been pulling out all the stops. We've had a "7 in 7" campaign where we hoped to contact 7 million Democratic voters in 7 days, urging them to GOTV. Well, as you can see, we've blown past that and we're not on Day 7 yet.
If you got to the OFA website, you can volunteer to GOTDV, you can use their totally kick-ass online virtual phonebanking tool (which enters the data back into the Voter Action Network database
instantly.) You can find out where to vote, report polling place irregularities and access a whole host of other useful voting resources.
But there's a much fuller and richer effort going on, almost under the radar and in stealth mode, that has been months in the making. As many of you know, OFA has been contacting folks on our lists since late spring/early summer and getting them to sign pledge cards where they pledge to vote for Democrats. Here's the one I got Howard Dean to sign when he was in Ann Arbor, Michigan earlier this fall:
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Now, after all of these months of calling and phoning, we are set to go back to these people to gently and cheerfully remind them of their pledge. As the OFA Community Organizer in my area, I will be running a staging area this weekend where we will launch canvasses and phonebank continuously from Saturday morning through when the polls close on Tuesday. We have over 20 packets each with over 50 homes in them. We will contact each of these more than 1,000 households THREE TIMES over the next four days. First to remind them to vote, second to leave a door hanger telling them where to vote and which Democrats are running and, finally, on Election Day itself, to make sure they voted.
Over 1,000 households. In just one staging area. Plus phonebanking. And that's just ONE staging area of three in our city. And our city is just one of hundreds in our state where this is happening. And our state is just one of 50 where OFA is G'ingOTDV.
moreFrom the media's constant drumbeat about the enthusiasm gap, one would get the impression that Democrats have already packed up and gone home, for good.