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FelineOverlord

(3,580 posts)
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 08:33 PM Jan 2022

I am so angry about Virginia [View all]

{rant}

The turnout by Dems was low.

And we had real problems with the way VA Dems ran their GOTV campaign.

They refused to have any text-banking , only phone banking and sending out LETTERS. Not even postcards.

The letters campaign was a real mess. We had to print out letters and hand-write the letters. It was time consuming and expensive (we had to pay for postage).

There were about 20,000 names that were never “claimed” for letters. Those 20,000 names would have easily been reached with texts.

I remember many times while texting for Gavin Newsom in his recall campaign, I received many thanks from recipients for reminding them to return their ballots.

I also received thanks for reminding NJ Dems to vote for Phil Murphy.

But 1000s of Virginia Dem voters were never even contacted.

We were told that letters were far superior to texting. How can that be if they never even got sent?! We don’t even know if they were ever opened!!

I wrote scathing emails to VA Dem officials after the election.

None of them even bothered to respond.

{end rant}

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I am so angry about Virginia [View all] FelineOverlord Jan 2022 OP
Virginia was a national target for 'cons empedocles Jan 2022 #1
McAuliffe got more votes than any other Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia's history EleanorR Jan 2022 #2
So he's going to be the governor then, right? Mysterian Jan 2022 #6
Uneducated white women did a 20% switch, he didn't know that months before the election and uponit7771 Jan 2022 #22
CRT BS was a big deal. tblue37 Jan 2022 #25
Shitty campaigns too... WarGamer Jan 2022 #3
Hopefully Virginia '21 was a one and done for GQP similar to Alabama for Dems and Doug Jones in '18 aeromanKC Jan 2022 #4
McAuliffe thought he was a shoo-in Mysterian Jan 2022 #5
No one including McAuliff thought he was a shoe in. Budi Jan 2022 #7
Yeah, blame it on those evil progressives Mysterian Jan 2022 #13
Delaying and fighting with Biden did not help McCaulif redstateblues Jan 2022 #15
He was a weak candidate who ran a poor ground/web game. I saw and said that in the summer. Tommymac Jan 2022 #10
Unfortunate about no text-banking. Some GOTV hands don't text... brush Jan 2022 #8
I get so much junk mail if I don't recognize a letter, I don't open it. CaptainTruth Jan 2022 #9
I think the average person spends like 3-5 seconds looking at one piece of unsolicited mail. Tommymac Jan 2022 #11
This has been a pet peeve of mine for YEARS TheRealNorth Jan 2022 #12
Democratic turnout was not low. It was high. former9thward Jan 2022 #14
Yep. And the same tactics being criticized here onenote Jan 2022 #16
High R turnout plus they flipped Indies bigtime. Flipping Indies was a MAJOR factor. LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #29
Should have sent a text lame54 Jan 2022 #17
I live in Virginia and got plenty of handwritten postcards, as did my husband. phylny Jan 2022 #18
There was tons of textbanking in VA because I did it. It was being done in a big targeted way. LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #19
Welcome to DU. Thanks for writing. Have you found the Virginia group yet? mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 #20
"a bit of a more robust and earlier groundgame" This is what I read in VA was the messaging he was uponit7771 Jan 2022 #23
He could have started earlier, but did people not know there was an election? LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #24
***I"VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS !!!*** Dem messaging mechanics suck !!! uponit7771 Jan 2022 #21
American voters suck for needing "messaging" to see what should be plain... Silent3 Jan 2022 #26
Not in plain site, the informed think everyone else is as informed as they are. The avg voter isn't uponit7771 Jan 2022 #31
In the hotly-contested 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election, according to the AP-NORC VoteCast Celerity Jan 2022 #27
Why do you think this happened? LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #28
the article at that link partly explains why Celerity Jan 2022 #30
But what do you think? LENNY0229 Jan 2022 #32
The poster didn't write the article leftstreet Jan 2022 #33
she Celerity Jan 2022 #35
... leftstreet Jan 2022 #36
This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Jan 2022 #34
it sounds like Hispanics are under-educated or misinformed about the benefits of our border policy cadoman Jan 2022 #37
I can't speak to Virginia, but in Texas I've seen it. herding cats Jan 2022 #38
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