Daily Beast: The DNC Knows Everything About You
The DNC Knows Everything About You
Learning from the Obama presidential campaigns, the Democrats are rolling out a sophisticated national ground game they hope will get ‘souls to the polls.’
With fewer than 75 days left until Election Day, Democrats across the country are feverishly moving from planning to implementing a vast, multilayered turnout operation that they hope will make the 2014 mid-term elections look more like a victorious Obama presidential year and less like the sort of mid-term wipeout that cost them the House majority in 2010.
It won’t be easy. Of the 21 Senate seats Democrats are defending, six are Red states that Mitt Romney easily carried in 2012. Even in Democratic and swing states, President Obama’s dismal approval ratings are a drag on any Democrat in a competitive race.
But as the cliché goes, the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day, and Democrats are focusing an unprecedented amount of resources on turning their voters out on November 4th. The data-driven, Obama campaign-inspired approach is designed to not only persuade likely voters to pick the Democrat in their elections, but also to vastly expand the pool of Democratic votes in those elections by finding, registering and turning out people who would probably vote for a Democrat, if they bothered to vote at all.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is calling their $60 million turnout operation “the Bannock Street Project.” The Democratic National Committee calls theirs the Voter Expansion Project. DuBose Porter, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia where the DSCC and DNC are both invested and where Democrats must win to keep their Senate majority, has his own term for getting out the vote in 2014.
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to the trash bin in about 2 seconds, then.
They turn off small donors by sharing/selling lists and overwhelming us with requests, particularly when many are financially destitute in part due to the corporatist policies and TBTF greed that continues to go unpunished.
Every call and e-mail is a slap in the face. I've tried to explain to a pol friend of mine that if they would just re-do their e-mails to ask for an hour of our time in lieu of money so many people would feel so much more respected and valued (and if/when they had money they'd give it). As is, we're reminded in every fundraising appeal how useless we are unless we can make gifts of 5k or more.
Thank God there's so much important work to do outside of the electoral process, like building resilience through spreading widespread vegetable-gardening literacy, for example. 
