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Pook Good Mook posted:Anyone know the average size of a campaign staff for a Senate election? Surely they must approach 73 people. The last Senate campaign I worked had ~150 people in Field (door-knockers and volunteer coordinators) alone in a small state top-line race in a non-presidential year. Field staff works from roughly 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on most days. You spend the morning in office, doing paperwork, cutting turf (making walkable maps of houses to hit) and putting out fires with down-ticket candidates who will spend the entire election focused on parades and lawn signs. You knock doors from 3 p.m. until dinner, then you make phone calls from dinner 7-9. From nine to ten, you are tabulating all the data you gathered and kicking it up to Regional. At 11 p.m., there's a conference call where you're told how poo poo you are and how America itself will fall because you're a lazy piece of poo poo. You find out that Applebees is the only place you can get both food and booze after 11:30 p.m. You knock doors all day Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Knocking sucks. You approach people at the threshold of their sanctuary from the world and ask them intimate questions about a touchy subject. You'll get screamed at, chased by dogs, threatened, look down the barrel of a gun and will meet at least one person who has no qualms about answering the door naked (Willingness to answer the door naked is inversely proportional to traditional notions of attractiveness). Sweet old people will invite you in and keep you forever. They may or may not know why you're there. Calling sucks. You are the telemarketer that you hate. You do have some idea what time it is. You are sorry that they asked to be taken off the list. You'll make sure you get it right next time. You don't have a predictive dialer, so 70% of your time is ringing phones. Occasionally you'll get so bored that you start including additional issues into your surveys. "Which one of these issues matters to you the most: jobs and the economy, national security, environment issues, jet-packs, tax policy or guns?" People feel much more free to say vile poo poo over the phone. A field campaign is broken into three phases: I. Identification - Figure out who is already voting for you and why they're voting for you. You get lists of previous voters that nobody has touched for 2-4 years (if you're lucky). They need to be knocked and updated so you can figure out who moved, who died, etc. You recruit volunteers, identify new voters, help them get registered, and place everyone in the universe (Strong Supporters - Weak Supporters - Undecided - Weak Opposition - gently caress You). No-one wants to talk to you on the phone. The weather is cold and gross. II. Persuasion - All that data you crunched is applied with specific campaigns at specific groups of voters. You and your volunteers are canvassing specific groups within the universe with specific messaging (I.E. you knock every Weak Supporter who identified "Guns" as their big issue with on point literature and messaging). You are organizing your volunteers into groups and teaching them to do your job. If your state allows early voting by absentee ballot, you push hard to lock in votes now. The best pitch you have is promising to leave people alone once they vote. At a mandatory staff 6:30 a.m. staff training another organizer drops a napkin on your table that's been hastily scrawled with "Union Now." Regional hears about this and treats it like an Ebola outbreak. The note's author is fired after returning from a late night meeting at a Union Hall. Knocking doors is hot and gross. No one wants to talk to you on the phone. III. GOTV - Knocking doors is cold and gross again. No one wants to talk to you on the phone, but you no longer care. You know with 90% confidence how every registered voter in your area is going to vote and you have names, addresses and phone numbers of everyone you think is going to vote for you. You have poll watchers trained to check names of voters against your list of supporters and hunter-killer teams of little old ladies standing by to police up stragglers. You know everyone in the community and they know you. Two days before the election you knock the Republican Central Committee Chair's door and listen as he rants about how lovely your campaign is if they think a Democrat lives here. When he hits a natural pause, you ask if his wife is available and relish in the sound the door makes when it slams in your face. Your candidate loses by 20 points, the Applebees waitress you've been sleeping with dumps you, and everyone gets fired the day after the election. The point is that no amount of money will buy you a pop-up ground game because it is built on thousands of hours of mind-numbing agony and drudgery. It is already too late for Trump to do it right and the consequences of doing it wrong will not be apparent until election night. Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Karl Sharks posted:please post more, this was interesting to hear, thanks Field:  Which part? The strategy, the abuse, or the chicanery? My favorite guy to call with was this dude named Tom. Whenever someone screamed at him on the phone, he'd immediately call them back.  Oh hey, I think we got cut off. So anyway, Sherrod Brown believes...*click* Would you be interested in taking our complaint survey?*click* Hey man, you want to buy a vacuum cleaner?
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Barbe Rouge posted:What's the deal with the "Union Now" napkin? Was the guy trying to organize a union and got fired for it? He was joking about unionizing campaign workers. You'd think that would make sense for a Democratic campaign, but the business model is built on milking 90 hour weeks out of employees that are salaried at around $35k per year. If someone (that never wanted to work in politics again) wanted to, they could force the issue because that would be the worst optics ever, but no-one does because anyone who takes the job is all in for the cause and the candidate. You take the abuse because you don't want to be the staffer who helps the other side. This insular, cult-like reasoning is why people tend to burn out after a few cycles. Campaigns eat their young. Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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An indictment is proof that she's guilty. No indictment is proof that she's guilty and that the FBI is corrupt. Check your biases guys.
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Zas posted:it sounds like the cops were pretty lovely to the fake suspect You mean other than the "fake suspect" thing? The video of him surrendering arms featured a surprisingly chill cop giving him his card so he could get his gun back.
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Looking forward to getting back to the comparatively light topic of a lunatic almost winning the most powerful job in human history while simultaneously imploding one half of the two party system that's kept us stable since the civil war.
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A good guy with a gun recognizes that he should immediately give it up when poo poo gets real.
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What do you suppose will be the fate of people subsidizing their ex-pat day-trading loses with disability income when America is Made Great Again!?
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Boosted_C5 posted:Slow and steady wins the race. LOL if you UNCHECK Rasmussen:
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Someone post the Trump Surge Graph that you get by only including Rasmussen.
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Do you think the organizers are going to leave the laptop running the big screen connected to the internet?
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I'm freaked out about the comparative placement they're giving noted Ryan Zinke (R-MT at large). If he doesn't get knocked off this cycle by the Indian Vote, we'll be seeing more of him.
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Christian rap is truly the best rap.
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Jul 19, 2016 01:00
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This act is surprisingly shanty inspired.
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Jul 19, 2016 01:02
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Jeff Foxworthy lookin rough.
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Jul 19, 2016 01:05
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Noted back-haver Donald Trump
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Jul 19, 2016 01:08
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Neal Mcbeal is speaking last.
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Jul 19, 2016 04:18
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West Virginia: one big family.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:22
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I think about that coal miner's meth dealer.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:25
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*forest ranger on a skateboard* Radical Enviromentalism
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Jul 20, 2016 03:32
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BETTER CALL SAUL A COMMUNIST
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Jul 20, 2016 03:38
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Donald Trump is passionate about the American worker topping off this drink.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:41
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Literally wrapping up protesters in an American flag.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:43
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um that's not how obamacare works
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Vote trump to save my neighbors avacado trees.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:54
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Is this like a Jews for Jesus thing?
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quote:F.H. Buckley is a professor at George Mason Law School and the author of The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America. George Mason posted:B. Plagiarism encompasses the following: Edit: quote:
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Jul 20, 2016 04:49
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Guys the honor code at ASSlaw only applies to the students.
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Montasque posted:Trump's loyal voters are about 35% of the Republican electorate. They will not forget this. To them the legacy of lyin' Ted has just been cemented and Hannity, Ingrahm, and Savage will never allow them to forget it. Considering he didn't have them last cycle, one primary doesn't really foretell an loyal voting block. Its not like Gerald Ford supporters went gently caress REGAN in 1980.
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Republicans posted:He's probably banking on the country to be practically begging for a republican in office after 4 years of Hillary. It wouldn't surprise me if he does much more and more overtly to sabotage Trump's campaign. For real, Cruz just adopted "Vote your conscience" as a platform to stump for the RNC down-ballot. If Trump loses, he's prescient and the heir apparent against a likely weak incumbent. If Trump wins, he' can take credit for the down-ballot turnout that helped put the RNC back into the White House.
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paranoid randroid posted:"payback for Bork" is still a rallying cry in the republican party and yall acting like the rabidly devoted trump base is just going to forget Ted showing his rear end to their man I think you'll find that when Trump goes down, there will be very few people who will admit to being that base.
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Meanwhile, is Trump speechwriter Meredith McIver just Joe Barron in drag?
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Seems legit.  Edit: Whoops Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Jul 21, 2016 06:24
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weird how the camera keeps finding that one pocket of hispanics
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Stupid Hillary allowing free elections in Egypt.
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Jul 22, 2016 03:35
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America First! That's catchy! Why hasn't someone used that before?
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KUMATE KUMATE
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So...gently caress off Frenchies?
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