Relied on phone calls and door-knocking to turn out young/infrequent voters when those demographics don't answer the phone or stay at the same address long enough to be easily reached by those methods https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1247662710365605888
Should have focused more on reaching out to people at their workplaces, as the campaign did to great success with the Iowa Somali meatpackers & the Vegas strip hospitality workers
Those methods are more labor-intensive & require more experienced organizers to pull off; the campaign may not have had the resources to do this on a large scale. Still, may have been the only way to turn out the disaffected voters we needed
door-to-door canvassing is a conventional tactic that most campaigns do. It makes it easy to put lots of volunteers to work with relatively little training. But not a perfect fit for a campaign that's trying to do what no campaign has done before
Go door-to-door & the young people on your list have moved or are away at college, or their parents won't let you talk to them. Go to low-wage workplaces & you can find lots of young people with similar grievances you can address
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