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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just sent out 150 hand written letters via Vote Forward to low propensity democratic swing state voters!!
I only wrote 70 letters in 2020 and Biden beat tRump. I hope it works! Harris/Walz 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just Jerome
(105 posts)Just started phone banking in 2022. Flipped our state house seat blue! At it again to re-elect her. Also phone banking to flip our Senate seat (josh hawley, AAARRGH!) Wife and I are sending post cards to other states!
Can you FEEEEL the love, people?
texasfiddler
(2,189 posts)Grown2Hate
(2,166 posts)Kaleva
(38,502 posts)tavernier
(13,277 posts)Im going tomorrow to a Kamala caravan. I only have a bumper sticker but well figure something else out.
HeartsCanHope
(754 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 6, 2024, 10:39 PM - Edit history (1)
My son and I are sending Postcards To Swing States. They are also handwritten. Between the two of us we wrote 400 of them. They get mailed later this month. There's another DUer that is sending something like 800 postcards for the same organization and has been sending them for different elections since 2020! Thank you to everyone for all you are doing!!
Edited to add a shout out to Dulcinea, she of the 800 postcard mailing!! You rock, Dulcinea!!
qwlauren35
(6,279 posts)Oh, those strong fingers!
HeartsCanHope
(754 posts)Ms. Toad
(35,601 posts)I've been writing them since around 2020.
Oddly enough, I received one this week. Odd, because they are supposed to target voters who are inconsistent - but vote blue when they do vote. I'm hardly an inconsistent voter. I think I have missed 3 elections since my first vote in 1976 - all primaries or special elections when there was nothing I cared about (or no candidates with opposition).
I found the message the writer chose as creepy as it I found it when I was choosing which message to write. (The message was the one about the record of your voting being public, even though who you vote for is private.)
My son and I did ours a few at a time, but it took awhile. We started with just 200, but finished them quickly enough that we sent off for another 200. I am so impressed that you did 500!! We used the one about needing to remind others to vote. We felt it was a positive message, and the message we would rather receive. I think they had so many people sign up this time that they were targeting other types of voters. We had to wait longer for the 2nd batch to arrive than the first batch. Thank you for writing so many! You rock!
Ms. Toad
(35,601 posts)callous taoboy
(4,673 posts)HeartsCanHope
(754 posts)Fiddlelady11
(44 posts)I am doing 200 handwritten postcards due to be sent October 15. Only 30more to do.
qwlauren35
(6,279 posts)We appreciate you!
cilla4progress
(25,972 posts)Yeah!
MLAA
(18,659 posts)Im going to go right this minute and make another donation in your honor!
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texasfiddler
(2,189 posts)MLAA
(18,659 posts)I chose Gwen Walzs email request to reply to 🙂
qwlauren35
(6,279 posts)Everything makes a difference.
people
(709 posts)Supposed to mail them Oct. 27. Just 30 left to do. Hope it helps secure a Harris and Walz win in Nevada and in the Electoral College.
Figarosmom
(3,250 posts)That win elections.
onecaliberal
(36,264 posts)They are ready to go. The directions say to wait until Tue. Oct. 15th.
iluvtennis
(20,941 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,839 posts)Training election workers starts Monday.
GOTV!!
LoisB
(8,931 posts)Deuxcents
(20,058 posts)relayerbob
(7,068 posts)I have 400 postcards to Georgia voters written, and ready to mail at the appropriate time (I'm cheating and sending them a little, because I printed up a blue sticker for them that says "Early voting starts Oct 15".
LFG!!
Mme. Defarge
(8,568 posts)I have done 20 letters so far for people in North Carolina, Arizona and Michigan. Its my first involvement with Vote Forward and I like working at home and on my own schedule. Now I really need to up my game!
texasfiddler
(2,189 posts)oasis
(51,765 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(10,440 posts)dobleremolque
(914 posts)after it's over, I'm treating both wife and me to hand massages, (i.e. massages of our hands ... just to clarify) at the local Vietnamese hand and foot massage business in the shopping center down the street. Writers cramps is a real GOTV occupational hazard.
texasfiddler
(2,189 posts)Great Idea about the hand massage
Prairie_Seagull
(3,816 posts)Doesn't work for shit writing them anywhere near a TV, laptop whatever. Do them on the kitchen or other table. I was filling out a card to someone named Rachel. One guess who's last name I wrote. Does white out affect impact? He jests.