AL-SEN: "Lousy" DNC spent $1 million on African American and Millennial Turnout

[RandySF]

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[gibraltar72]

1. Priceless!

[mcar]

2. Perez deserves credit

He's doing a great job!

[vi5]

3. Awesome.

And that's what we'll need to overcome voter suppression tactics and laws. Everywhere.

If this was the strategy it worked and we need to keep doing it again and again, all over the damn place.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. THIS

[Scoopster]

5. Here's a great thread about the on-the-ground GOTV effort

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The NAACP, Tom Perez & the DNC and neighbors talking to neighbors made all the difference in this election and deserve a HUGE amount of credit. Especially the DNC - they used some of the same campaign targeting efforts as in Virginia and again it paid off big time. Using these same efforts will make all the difference in winning some of the seats in Alabama's congressional delegation. Dems currently only hold one seat.

[oberliner]

6. That is a great thread

That effort should be repeated coast to coast.

[Gothmog]

7. DNC waged stealth organizing campaign for Jones

Tom Perez and the DNC did a great job in Alabama https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/12/alabama-senate-democrats-jones-293496

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — With the spotlight squarely on Roy Moore in the closing weeks of Alabama's Senate special election, a constellation of Democratic groups embarked on an under-the-radar effort to organize voters for candidate Doug Jones.

Despite publicly remaining mum on the race, the Democratic National Committee spent nearly $1 million on the contest while dispatching and funding 30 aides here, a party official told POLITICO. That push came just as Jones sought to distance himself from the national party and win over conservatives.


It was a politically delicate move. Jones’ detractors have tried painting him as a tool of the national party, so Democrats in Washington have tried treading carefully in order to avoid leaving too much of a footprint in a state where Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in over two decades. The effort paid off: Jones prevailed Tuesday.

But the DNC and other national Democrats have also come under fire from critics this year for their perceived lack of involvement in other special elections, so the committee has been eager to chip in.