I thought I would share some field output data, per an email sent to me by Dean staffer Mike Weissman. Below is verbatim, except for my parenthetical note at the very bottom. And thanks for Mike for taking time the day before the election for the updates:
-----
Hi Tom-
I've done a bit of checking and have some house meeting numbers for you:
We held 1309 house meetings from July to December 2003. On Sunday, January 11 we began the "week of 1000 house meetings. While a bit of the data may not have gotten into the system given how crazy it's been lately, we are over 2300 since we began here.
Other numbers you might be interested in. January 17 and 18 was "makeover weekend" in which we deployed new materials to our supporters in the field (those are the blue-on-yellow signs and bumper stickers you may have seen). In total, 50,000 bumper stickers, 12,000 yard signs and 450 of the large 4x8 signs went out to the field.
I'm still tracking down letters-to-NH numbers for you; I'll email about that later in the day.
Mike Weissman
New Hampshire Director of E-Communications and Organizing
(Note from Schaller: Mike has since followed up to let me know that 107,981 total letters were sent into NH, broken down as follows: 39,249 via the Meetup hand-written campaign, and another 68,732 sent directly online by email.)