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I've just been asked to help out a few counties over with the state party's coordinated campaign. The location of the office has yet to be fixed and the CC doesn't know if it'll end up with its own place or if it'll share space with a local congressional campaign. For anyone who has gone through this already, what are some of the best things to do this early on, when everything's in a flux?
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May 11, 2014 21:31
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Long hours at minimum wage with no break, sitting in a windowless office trying to reach quotas day after day. No, higher-ups say, we won't do the door-to-door canvasing, that'll be the volunteers we recruit. Visibility events? We'll still be holed up in the office. That "frequent travel required" thing in the job description? Eventually maybe you'll get your own office in part of the county, where you'll be holed up doing more quotas. You don't interact with the campaign, you treat the press like the plague and this is basically your life until November. Goddamn, I thought at least we'd get out at some points during this thing.
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May 20, 2014 11:43
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During the first introductory day of work, everybody really emphasized the chain of command. What if our direct boss is already breaking into fits of nervous giggling and we still haven't found anyone who will tell us straight what our pay is? What's the best way to actually break the chain of command? What if 3/4 of a county's FOs are this far away from mutiny already Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 21, 2014 |
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May 21, 2014 11:50
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Concerned Citizen posted:is this a statewide or local?
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May 21, 2014 14:51
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We are supposed to get breaks for meals, right? Like, I get that we need to devote all our energies to getting out the vote, but we should be getting breaks for lunch and dinner, right?
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May 22, 2014 01:37
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There's no primaries that we have to be concerned about, and primarily all we seem to be doing is phone banking to build up volunteers. We're not even doing that good a job of it- the paper lists have a depressingly low rate of return, and nobody seems to've bothered properly stocking VB. Wouldn't it be more useful for us to physically go out and attend local party meetings, and just try to get people from those face-to-face contacts in groups we know are already interested in seeing us succeed? Or just something, goddamn anything else. Thus far it all seems less organized than it ought to be, no one's ready to say anything about pay, and they're trying to retain us by keeping us occupied in a holding pattern of busywork calls to numbers that don't answer.
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May 22, 2014 11:52
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G-Hawk posted:1. it sounds like your campaign is a shitshow Yesterday I got one (1) scheduled volunteer out of ten or so hours of calling, and out of something like 14 contacts total and about 300 dials. I (or any other FO) could've gotten one volunteer from attending one of the party meetings going on last night, and it wouldn't have taken 10 hours or cost the party 10 hours' worth of wages. I get that, for the most part, phone banking is an effective overall strategy for reaching
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May 22, 2014 20:16
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Xanderg posted:If your numbers are accurate then you have some terrible data OR you are in a non-battleground state that doesn't have any sort of serious field infrastructure. Probably a combination of both to be honest. Are you pulling lists based on when people are home? (calling people 55 and older during the day and 54 and under at night?) New data was loaded into VB last night. We would've used the better numbers today, except the FO who's been using her tethered phone as a hotspot was sick and so we had no wifi in the office again (the staff at Panera are very generous, thankfully). Allegedly we'll have proper internet access in the office tomorrow and won't even have to rely on phone-based hotspots, but I am skeptical. *Another region experienced the same problem, so probably it's the latter.
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May 22, 2014 21:16
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G-Hawk posted:Contact rates often aren't great but thats shockingly low if accurate. I'd be hard pressed to find a way to do that unless a universe has been run into the ground beyond any possibility at this stage of the campaign. To be fair I think I was on the unlucky low end of the spectrum- another report was something like 40 contacts out of 350, but that was the deceased-disconnect guy so I dunno. Average rate of volunteer scheduling out of whatever contacts were made was around 5%, both from our region and the other region which had to fall back on the paper lists.
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May 22, 2014 21:35
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Concerned Citizen posted:I'mma real talk you here Ofaloaf. It sounds like your RFD is maybe no so great, but I also feel like you need to (wo)man up a bit. 2. The 1-in-14 rate doesn't bother me as much as it just being 1. Whole pages were nothing but NH-- but the pace for those pages was slower than it'd be for disconnects, since standing policy is that a dial must go through to the answering machine or some other termination of ringing before moving on. Ring-four-times-then-hang-up is frowned upon, and that's straight from the mouth of HQ. 3. The paper lists are HQ-issued. They're sorted alphabetically by last name, with no other details sorted beyond that.
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May 22, 2014 21:59
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G-Hawk posted:the eternal fight of local committees/etc who think events and visibility are a thing that matter versus campaigns who rightfully care about direct voter contact will never end. I did a stint, I know what's what with campaigning, but apparently it's all about the little postcard-sized mailers and "VOTE FOR X" signs. "It proves you're a serious candidate," I've been told.
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Sep 22, 2014 03:03
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Jackson Taus posted:That said, in your case some lit might be a good idea - let them pass it out when they do their events or their own knocking or whatever. Nowhere near as useful as talking to voters yourself, but it's not like you can knock every door before E-Day. It's been fairly easy to cover an entire neighborhood in a day, and it's local so at least some people already know me and talk me up. I've also taken to leaving business cards when I go door-to-door, since it provides my name & contact info, people can easily stick it on their fridge, and it's cheap and easy to print from home.
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Sep 22, 2014 12:41
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Jackson Taus posted:But I reiterate my worry that folks you talk to in June will need another touch in October so they remember to go to the polls, especially if you don't have a competitive House or Senate race in your area. Of course I'll go out on my own too, and not just bank on his efforts backfiring.
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Sep 22, 2014 13:42
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