redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Nov. 3rd, 2020 12:53 pm)
Yesterday I made a few get-out-the-vote call specifically for the Biden campaign, and some mostly nonpartisan get-out-the-vote text banking., Today, I've sent a lot of texts: a friend posted last night that she had meant to text bank today but her tendonitis is acting up, so she guessed she'd be phone banking. So we agreed I'd text on her behalf, and she'd phone on my behalf.

Nonetheless, I may try phone banking again in a little while, or at least find a specifically Biden/Harris or Democratic text bank, rather than the ones that are hoping that if we get lots of people to the polls who don't usually vote, explicitly including Black and Hispanic voters, significantly more of them will vote for Biden than for Trump. The Trump fans seem to think so, based on their reactions to texts that say things like "I'm with State Voices, do you have a plan for voting?"

[personal profile] cattitude continues to be my support Cat, with sandwiches and tea and
[3100 initial texts, plus replies including to other people's initial texts, as of 1:00.]
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Nov. 3rd, 2020 08:05 pm)
So, I have sent 1800 last-minute get-out-the-vote texts on behalf of the Biden campaign, in Michigan, after doing 4600 non-partisan ones earlier in the day. Non-partisan because while they can't say "vote for Biden" and keep their tax-exempt status, they can send texts to registered Democrats and independents, and skip the known Republicans.

r they can send enough texts that I think every human being and probably most of the fax machines in Florida has been urged to vote.

The Biden campaign was using ThruText, an interface that required twice as many clicks to send messages as everything else I'd sent earlier in the campaign using Spoke.


And now [personal profile] cattitude is about to serve me dinner. Then maybe Nevada or Alaska?

[450 GOTV texts after dinner, to California and Hawaii, because while both states were shoo-ins for Biden, there were state-level things, including California's usual stack of propositions, on both ballots. I missed the smaller batch of texts to Alaska.]
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