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Ofaloaf
Feb 15, 2013

Mooseontheloose posted:

5. Lawn signs are a tried and true method of getting people elected. Why don't more campaigns use lawn signs?
[sobs internally]

I ran for a super-local position last year and barely bothered with any yard signs at all, and I super-regret doing that. I did a bit of a post-mortem with a friend after the election was over, and he revealed that he'd voted for a super-lovely candidate for the local school board just because he recognized her name on the ballot from all the signs he'd seen on the side of the road.

I might end up running for another local position next year, and I'm definitely going to do more to just plaster my name where I can. Yard signs are definitely part of that, and they do help out if your name isn't a well-known one otherwise.

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Ofaloaf
Feb 15, 2013

Haha, I briefly was working for the state party's coordinated campaign last year. In a Panera Bread. Using my own cellphone and laptop. Because the central office hadn't actually secured a place for our county yet, or gotten any equipment for us. We were still expected to make the same daily quotas goals that every other team had, though!

Ofaloaf
Feb 15, 2013

Yeah, but for entire 10-hour shifts? Do you know what it was like to try to get anyone to seriously engage over the phone with the sound of the dinnertime rush going on in the background?

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