Strategize, strategize, strategize. Get Out the Vote (GOTV).

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   tsmogposted 9 months ago

   Team Harris is getting out the vote — what is Trump doing? by The Hill [Opinion article] (Oct 16, 2024)
   https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/49 … game-gotv/
   
   "There’s no doubt Harris has the money and the numbers to field a historic voter engagement operation. Last week, a source close to the campaign estimated Harris surpassed $1 billion in fundraising, an astronomical sum given the short time she’s been a candidate. Harris has been pouring that cash into her battleground field operation since her first days at the top of the Democratic ticket, resulting in a professionalized field army that dwarfs Donald Trump’s scattershot operation.
   
   As early as July, Harris boasted “more than 260 field offices in swing states” including “more than 1,300 staffers.” That number has ballooned in the two months since. Harris’s field team now numbers “2,500 staff members located in 353 offices,” according to reporting out this week from the New York Times. Last week alone, the Harris team reported knocking on more than 600,000 doors and completing more than 3 million phone calls into swing states. That ground game is one reason Harris’s team is brushing off concerns about tightening polls."
   
   Then, a little further along . . .
   
   "None of that nuance is present in Trump’s threadbare national get-out-the-vote operation, much of which his campaign has outsourced to untested third-party groups. That’s especially true in Wisconsin, where billionaire Elon Musk’s America PAC is paying up to $30 an hour for inexperienced volunteers. Musk’s effort has been riddled with problems since the beginning, the Washington Post reports, draining scarce GOP funds while offering producing results.
   
   Not even Republicans are convinced Trump’s on-the-cheap effort will work. As early as last year, some party insiders griped that “nobody wants to admit” the former president’s efforts are not yielding winning results. “That’s why we’re losing elections,” one veteran GOP strategist told NBC News."
   
   Of course, sources could be questioned especially being an opinion piece. However, how important will the GOTV be for this election cycle? What is the effort like in your neck of the woods. Here at my home, in Escondido, California I have had two door knockers representing a local candidate and a county candidate. On TV there is a commercial focused on voting without any hint toward a candidate.
   
   Thoughts, criticisms, accolades, and/or commentary?

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      Sharlee01posted 9 months agoin reply to this

      The language alone of this author shows a bias. Not worth replying to.
      
      " Donald Trump’s scattershot operation"
      "Trump’s threadbare national get-out-the-vote operation, "
      
      "Not even Republicans are convinced Trump’s on-the-cheap effort will work. As early as last year, some party insiders griped that “nobody wants to admit” the former president’s efforts are not yielding winning results. “That’s why we’re losing elections,” one veteran GOP strategist told NBC News."  ONE VETERAN--- no name to put a face to?
      
      Last I looked Trump was doing well in the polls she lost ground. 
      
      Nice article for some that enjoy biased info with partial facts.

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months ago

   From the Hill's mouth to God's ears!

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   tsmogposted 9 months ago

   How Trump and Harris are trying to get out the vote in Pennsylvania by Spectrum News (Oct 17, 2024) [3+ minute read]
   https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2 … ction-vote
   
   What You Need To Know
   
   ** With 19 electoral votes at stake, Pennsylvania is the biggest battleground prize that both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns are trying to win
   
   ** Spectrum News spent three days in Western Pennsylvania this week speaking with voters and volunteers
   
   ** The Harris campaign has deployed a traditional voter turnout effort, while Team Trump is using the help of various outside political groups
   
   ** Pennsylvania voters said they are exhausted by the amount of ads they see each day
   
   Subheadings . . .
   
   Pennsylvania matters. A lot.
   The commonwealth has 19 electoral votes up for grabs, the most of the seven battleground states.
   
   According to the tracking firm AdImpact, more money has been spent on political ads here than in any other state.
   
   Comparing campaign outreach
   
   Outside groups play big role in outreach
   
   Voters hopeful their side is doing enough
   
   Trump won this state by 44,000 votes in 2016 and then lost it by 80,000 in 2020, so turnout really matters.

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