Reply #25: Three problems with this

[jburton]

1. Cellphone ownership is not exclusive to Kerry supporters.

2. If a campaign doesn't have the support already in place to secure 15% at a caucus, would it really have the capability to organize a list of cell-phone caucus-goers, and a system in place to contact them, gain input of how each caucus is going at any time, persuade, etc.? This would be a massive undertaking (especially since it is such a narrow time frame - caucus night). Want to call one caucus attendee in each county? That's 99 calls right there. Want to call ten in each county? That's 990 calls. All of these calls would have to be made in an extremely narrow timeframe.

3. All of this is COMPLETELY MOOT when the caucus chair says "Turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones, pagers, and text-devices" at the beginning of the meeting. That's what my caucus chair does, and I'm sure plenty of others do too.


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