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The second full weekend that Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers knocked on doors was also our first weather-interrupted Saturday of the year. It was one of the challenges of starting some states earlier than in the past. But this...
by snowbored
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on Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 09:34 AM PDT
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As you can see from the map above, there are 3 (probably about to be 4) Toss-Up seats in Class II. North Carolina is a perennial toss-up and Democrats have repeatedly been disappointed the day after election day. North Carolina Democrats suffer from...
by snowbored
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Before the 2024 election, the Hope Springs from Field PAC [website which needs to be re-tooled] model had been — born out of our experience in the 2021 Georgia special elections that gave Democrats a majority in the Senate — to hand off volunteers and...
by snowbored
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 09:07 AM PDT
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The obvious question first: with Jeanne Shaheen’s retirement, will HSFF expand into New Hampshire this summer? That seems very likely, especially if we can raise the funds for expansion, given that we are already planning on expanding into Maine. As...
by snowbored
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on Wed Mar 12, 2025 at 09:08 AM PDT
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So it began. It wasn’t the first weekend that Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers knocked on doors this year, we’ve had people canvassing in FL-06 for that special congressional election since February. But it was our first regular,...
by snowbored
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 10:08 AM PST
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On Saturday, March 1st, Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers started knocking on doors again in six states (Arizona, Florida (specifically, special congressional election), Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas). Remarkably, after...
by snowbored
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on Tue Mar 04, 2025 at 09:22 AM PST
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Last Saturday, March 1st, Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers started knocking on doors again in six states (Arizona, Florida (specifically, special congressional election), Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas). Except...
by snowbored
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on Wed Mar 05, 2025 at 09:48 AM PST
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Well, this is it. Saturday, Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers start knocking on doors again in six states (Arizona, Florida (special election), Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas). After a harsh winter (and even worse...
by snowbored
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on Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 09:06 AM PST
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Yesterday, i wrote that Elon Musk’s influence in this administration stemmed from his deployment of field staff (paid canvassers) throughout the Swing States and his argument that this was decisive in the last election. IOW, this is how Musk obtained...
by snowbored
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on Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 09:56 AM PST
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Got this text a couple of days ago: “Have you gone radio silent? I haven’t seen word that HSFF would canvass this year.” Which is perplexing (to me), having recently posted “we need to adjust our “business” (or volunteer) model going forward.” I had...
by snowbored
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on Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 09:06 AM PST
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2024 didn’t go as expected. Right? We can all agree on that. Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers certainly feel that way, and a number of us have been focused intensely on understanding what we did right and what we did wrong in the...
by snowbored
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on Tue Feb 04, 2025 at 09:10 AM PST
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In his very excellent book Truman, David McCullough remembered two of the first speeches backwater, back bench clubhouse pol Harry S. Truman delivered on the Senate floor in 1937. Speeches to do with gigantic receiverships and reorganizations that were...
by grim determined indolent
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on Wed Jan 01, 2025 at 12:26 PM PST
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The problem with knocking on doors — the problem with knocking on doors and talking to voters, especially Swing State voters — is that i get asked all the time, “How Is It Out There?” Pretty sure i’m not the only one. I am betting many of our Hope...
by snowbored
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on Sat Nov 02, 2024 at 12:34 PM PDT
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“Don’t you believe it,” a fellow organizer scolded me as i walked through the door. Huh? “You know, your friend’s finding about undecideds.” Oh, that. “The data is the data,” i said. “We still have to sprint through the tape.” Late stages of campaigns...
by snowbored
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on Sat Nov 02, 2024 at 09:12 AM PDT
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Our Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers have known this from the beginning. Many, including our Allegheny Co. vols have worked this system before. They know it, they are comfortable with it, they believe in it because they have been...
by snowbored
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on Fri Nov 01, 2024 at 09:40 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers have now been canvassing GOTV targets for 5 days (or nights) straight. This is the point where the exhaustion starts to set it, and you start looking for that next spark. Heard a new one this week: a...
by snowbored
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on Thu Oct 31, 2024 at 09:31 AM PDT
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Should Donald Trump lose the initial and final vote tally, he still has a game plan to win the election and has set it in motion. Election deniers (defined by USA Today as those who have publicly denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election) are...
by Nickjlicata
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on Tue Oct 29, 2024 at 09:46 AM PDT
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Sunday GOTV canvassing was a little different than those i’ve described before.� We were focused mainly on frequent voters who had voted early in the past or had requested absentees this time but ...
by snowbored
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on Mon Oct 28, 2024 at 01:04 PM PDT
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There are 1.1 million Puerto Ricans in the state of Florida, about 116,000 in Osceola County, where Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers continue to canvass, or about a quarter of the county’s population. Puerto Ricans are the largest...
by snowbored
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on Tue Oct 29, 2024 at 12:24 PM PDT
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“I’ve always been a Democrat but I’m not feeling it.” These are the kinds of voters where Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers wished they had a pen and paper instead of trying to type in notes into the phone. This Pennsylvania voter had...
by snowbored
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on Sun Oct 27, 2024 at 09:13 AM PDT
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