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Weather tripped us up last weekend. It was too cold to canvass in Reno, too rainy to canvass in Maryland and too wet and cold to canvass in Pennsylvania. These kinds of things happen, and at the beginning of the season, there’s no reason to take...
by snowbored
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on Sat May 11, 2024 at 09:00 AM PDT
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I make no bones about the fact that i like the last state canvassing diary of the week to be about the state that turns out the most volunteers the prior Saturday. I like to honor the Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers from that state and...
by snowbored
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on Fri May 10, 2024 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers in Nevada have been discussing the electoral changes for the 2024 elections and what it means for them. Nevada adopted a largely all-mail voting system in 2021, permanently codifying pandemic-related...
by snowbored
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on Thu May 09, 2024 at 09:07 AM PDT
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*** BREAKING: President Joe Biden leads former President Donald Trump 50 - 44 percent in a head-to-head matchup, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters in Wisconsin released today. In the U.S. Senate race, Sen. Tammy Baldwin...
by snowbored
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on Wed May 08, 2024 at 09:18 AM PDT
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People seem to have noticed that President Biden is gaining on TFG in the polls. But this is what we have been finding at the doors, in every state (which just so happen to be Swing States) where Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers are...
by snowbored
36 comments
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
with 97 Recommends
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No stranger to public service, Justin Shore is President of the Clearwater, Kansas, City Council. Clearwater is 20 miles from Wichita. About 23 minutes. Clearwater is dead center in the 93rd Kansas House District, and so is entirely within the...
by grim determined indolent
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on Mon May 06, 2024 at 08:41 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] is fully activated. We targeted 12 Swing States to knock on doors this year, and now we have volunteers canvassing in all of them. All except for Montana are engaged in our Issues Canvass approach, knocking on the...
by snowbored
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 09:42 AM PDT
with 36 Recommends
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Been writing a lot about Arizona and Florida this year. Circulating petitions to get Reproductive Freedom enshrined into state constitutions has brought out a lot of our volunteers this Spring, so there’s a reason. Reproductive Rights has been “a...
by snowbored
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on Thu May 02, 2024 at 11:10 AM PDT
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Well, it had to happen. Several times i’ve noted that Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers weren’t hearing that the MidEast conflict or the Campus protests had risen to the level of suburban consciousness. But, then, last weekend, it did....
by snowbored
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on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 08:04 AM PDT
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This is our second monthly report; you can read the first one here. We have a plan. Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers set the goal (10 Million doors knocked before Labor Day) but i really think they pulled that number out of the air. It sounds...
by snowbored
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on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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President Biden and Democrats in general have a secret weapon this year. Reproductive Freedom is driving voters (and volunteers) in expected and surprising ways. Not just in states where there are Constitutional Amendments on the ballot. Hope Springs...
by snowbored
10 comments
on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 10:25 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers start canvassing tomorrow in Pennsylvania and Ohio. “Got to get started sometime,” one of our Ohio volunteers texted. They seem to be coming off a victory high (we saw that in Georgia, too, a few years...
by snowbored
7 comments
on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 09:18 AM PDT
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Circulating petitions to get Reproductive Freedom enshrined into state constitutions has been driving a lot of our volunteer turnout this Spring. Perhaps more so in Arizona than in Florida, but this fact means that our top 2 states in volunteer turnout...
by snowbored
10 comments
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 09:02 AM PDT
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First of all, congratulations to Summer Lee for her victory last night. We had volunteers from Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] on both sides of that primary, and while i certainly do not agree with some of her positions, i DO BELIEVE in...
by snowbored
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers are now canvassing in Maryland. At the last minute, former Governor Larry Hogan jumped into the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, “a surprising move that immediately made the state a top battleground...
by snowbored
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 09:09 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC finally has a website. After pestering from some very serious, and knowledgeable contributors, and the kind folks at Cooperative Digital (who patiently worked through our limitations), you can find the first iteration at the...
by snowbored
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 09:03 AM PDT
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We all knew it was coming. I mentioned it in my last diary about Arizona. 'This changes everything,' the Arizona Republic declared. And (for once?) the headline writer was right. The number of Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers who showed up to...
by snowbored
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Last year, our canvassing statistics were skewed by the the two Issue 1 ballot referendums in Ohio. In 2022, in the course of canvassing in 3 competitive Congressional Districts (and winning all 3), Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers knocked on...
by snowbored
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
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I don’t think of myself as a particularly optimistic person. Through my career, i’ve been called blunt, sometimes an a**hole (ask my wife), but — until last year — not a particularly optimistic person. And i admit, it confused me. This year, i decided...
by snowbored
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 09:06 AM PDT
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I start my day by reading the newspaper. But here’s the thing, in the four years since Hope Springs from Field PAC was launched, with now four years of Issues Surveys to compile, it feels like what i read in the newspaper is old news. At least to me....
by snowbored
20 comments
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 10:03 AM PDT
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