Hit the Damn Cities!

[SheenaR]

We have some big contests coming up with huge urban areas (Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Ohio and later NY)

Take a look at the map of Massachusetts for instance yesterday.

Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell all big losses for us. We literally won almost the entire rest of the state. It's a common theme in this election for our side. Is it not time for a new strategy?

Why not hit the cities hard? Detroit, Flint, Lansing. Chicago (South Side), Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Akron, Cleveland etc. We need to carry cities and we are falling woefully short.

This is literally the only way I see us mounting a reasonable comeback. We will take the outskirts as we have been above the Mason-Dixon Line. It needs to happen though. The base we are going for is not enough. He needs to spend every day in the big cities and start (should have started long ago) expanding this base and bringing the enthusiasm back to the polls. We have marches, rallies and the like that show great enthusiasm. But it's not enough.

Hit the Damn cities Jeff and Tad!

[TTUBatfan2008]

1. Sadly...

...I think the MSM Blackout of 2015 did its job. Here we are in early 2016 after pretty much a full year blackout in media coverage. The guy is just now receiving the kind of media coverage required to reach voters who aren't already interested in the campaign to begin with. The only reason he is receiving more coverage now is because he competed a lot better in actual elections than the media ever expected him to (ie they expected him to get no more than 5-10% of the vote nationwide).

[SheenaR]

2. I don't disagree

But I think a shakeup is still needed.. Get in those neighborhoods that are going exclusively Clinton. Knock on doors personally. Show them who he is. It is worth the risk at this point to save this race if we are really trying to win

[Gregorian]

3. I just want to thank you.

Whenever I see your name I know it's going to be an important post. Just had to say it.

[SheenaR]

4. Wow... Thank you Gregorian

You have been here a lot longer than me so I genuinely appreciate that comment. I am humbled.

I just want what we all want. And I will fight like heck to make it happen. And if there is an obstacle I can't get around, then I'm going right through it! My fiancé and I have really been moved by Bernie to take action and become active once again.


I got burned by John Edwards, now I love the Bern


As for the OP we have kind of implicitly trusted Weaver and Devine to this point. To me this strategy at this juncture has to be looked at in my opinion.


Thank you again. If it were still Valentine's you earned a heart from me!

[Dems to Win]

5. Knock on doors, persuade people face-to-face

I did the phonebanking into Iowa one day, and it as a very frustrating experience. 20 phone calls, not a one was a good phone number. One guy I asked for had been dead 6 years.

The phone lists they are using are so bad as to be worthless.

I'd like to see Bernie volunteers get voter lists from their county registrar of voters and hit the streets, independent of what the campaign is doing.

Knock on doors in low income areas! Trailer parks, where people move frequently. Have a stack of voter registration cards in hand, so you can help them register with their current address. Keep track of the people youve helped register, so you can go back and let them know it's time to vote for Bernie.

I'm going to do this in the trailer parks of my town in California (I've done it before). I encourage others to do this, too.

[SoapBox]

6. Excellent point about the phone numbers...

We still have a landline...and unless we know the number, we NEVER answer it...always results in a hang up with no message.

[jillan]

7. And get Bernie off the stage and out into the streets shaking hands, talking to people.