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I’ve lost track of how many races I’ve lost. Mostly because they stretch back to my first one: Howard Dean. I licked my wounds for a few days (?) and then rebounded by directing all my energies into local races that cycle. Lupe Valdez won her Democratic Primary...
I’ve lost track of how many races I’ve lost. Mostly because they stretch back to my first one: Howard Dean. I licked my wounds for a few days (?) and then rebounded by directing all my energies into local races that cycle. Lupe Valdez won her Democratic Primary...
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...Runoff election for Dallas County Sheriff a month or so after Dean withdrew from the Presidential Primary.
Keep in mind that I had quit my job and was living off savings to volunteer for Dean full time. That was a tough, upsetting loss over a media-overblown...
...Runoff election for Dallas County Sheriff a month or so after Dean withdrew from the Presidential Primary.
Keep in mind that I had quit my job and was living off savings to volunteer for Dean full time. That was a tough, upsetting loss over a media-overblown...
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...unidirectional mic feed and an enthusiastic candidate going hoarse trying to pump up his troops. (Lupe went on to become the first Latina, out Lesbian, Mexican immigrant Sheriff in all of Texas. Maybe in all the country. And she won re-election multiple times and ran...
...unidirectional mic feed and an enthusiastic candidate going hoarse trying to pump up his troops. (Lupe went on to become the first Latina, out Lesbian, Mexican immigrant Sheriff in all of Texas. Maybe in all the country. And she won re-election multiple times and ran...
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...for Governor in 2018.)
So, I know about hard losses. Heck, the first campaign Postcards to Voters wrote in 2017 was also a loss. A narrow loss. Which in many ways made it worse. Victory was within our grasp. But, still, all the optimism and all that postage and...
...for Governor in 2018.)
So, I know about hard losses. Heck, the first campaign Postcards to Voters wrote in 2017 was also a loss. A narrow loss. Which in many ways made it worse. Victory was within our grasp. But, still, all the optimism and all that postage and...
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...time and we still lost that Special Congressional Election in Georgia’s 6th.
But, Lucy McBath won by a hair when she ran in the General Election for the same seat. She’s my Congresswoman! And I feel certain that she won because of the groundwork in community...
...time and we still lost that Special Congressional Election in Georgia’s 6th.
But, Lucy McBath won by a hair when she ran in the General Election for the same seat. She’s my Congresswoman! And I feel certain that she won because of the groundwork in community...
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...organizing that the Ossoff team invested in and created. There hadn’t been anything like it here for generations.
Postcarding - as we now know it for GOTV - had its “rebirth” here in the 6th. People were using postcards to organize their precincts and neighborhoods.
...organizing that the Ossoff team invested in and created. There hadn’t been anything like it here for generations.
Postcarding - as we now know it for GOTV - had its “rebirth” here in the 6th. People were using postcards to organize their precincts and neighborhoods.
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To motivate Democratic neighbors and invite them to events. I know that postcarding was one of the tools deployed to great effect in the time right after the Ossoff defeat right up to McBath’s announcement to run and through to her eventual win.
All this to say that...
To motivate Democratic neighbors and invite them to events. I know that postcarding was one of the tools deployed to great effect in the time right after the Ossoff defeat right up to McBath’s announcement to run and through to her eventual win.
All this to say that...
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...Tricia Zunker, her team, and volunteers like us worked tirelessly to narrow the gap. Her performance was markedly better than the last try. And, she will be running again. When the turnout will be greater. And the anti-Trump sentiment will be greater. Turnout in a...
...Tricia Zunker, her team, and volunteers like us worked tirelessly to narrow the gap. Her performance was markedly better than the last try. And, she will be running again. When the turnout will be greater. And the anti-Trump sentiment will be greater. Turnout in a...
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...Special election during a pandemic a mnth after there was already another election is always hard to predict. And harder still to get low propensity voters back out (or to their mailboxes).
We don’t do all this work to attract a few dozen new volunteer writers in WI.
...Special election during a pandemic a mnth after there was already another election is always hard to predict. And harder still to get low propensity voters back out (or to their mailboxes).
We don’t do all this work to attract a few dozen new volunteer writers in WI.
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(Although, that is nice.) We don’t do it to curry favor among the campaign professionals on Tricia’s team or in the Wisconsin Democratic Party. (Again, that would be a nice bonus for us.) And we don’t do it to sell more postcards. (You’re never obligated to buy...
(Although, that is nice.) We don’t do it to curry favor among the campaign professionals on Tricia’s team or in the Wisconsin Democratic Party. (Again, that would be a nice bonus for us.) And we don’t do it to sell more postcards. (You’re never obligated to buy...
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...postcards from us. You can make or print your own.)
We write to move the needle into the win column. When we don’t win, it stings. I don’t ignore the stinging. But, I can’t let that stop me from the next worthy fight.
If I had stopped after Dean’s loss, what...
...postcards from us. You can make or print your own.)
We write to move the needle into the win column. When we don’t win, it stings. I don’t ignore the stinging. But, I can’t let that stop me from the next worthy fight.
If I had stopped after Dean’s loss, what...
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...good would that have done me? If the Democrats in Georgia’s 6th had stopped after Ossoff’s loss, McBath wouldn’t have won in 2018.
We can’t know today what ripple effects will emerge from the outcome in WI. All we can be sure of is that it would make the other...
...good would that have done me? If the Democrats in Georgia’s 6th had stopped after Ossoff’s loss, McBath wouldn’t have won in 2018.
We can’t know today what ripple effects will emerge from the outcome in WI. All we can be sure of is that it would make the other...
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...side giddy to learn that any volunteer writer decided to throw in the pen because of it. They know we are making a difference. And if they can chip away at us with a temporarily demoralizing loss, they will have achieved more to undermine our future success than they...
...side giddy to learn that any volunteer writer decided to throw in the pen because of it. They know we are making a difference. And if they can chip away at us with a temporarily demoralizing loss, they will have achieved more to undermine our future success than they...
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... could with any ad or mailer.
I don’t give them the satisfaction. I want them to read this and know that my resolves remains just as strong now as it was a month ago. If not stronger. They should be worried. Not gloating. They should see us growing in numbers, ...
... could with any ad or mailer.
I don’t give them the satisfaction. I want them to read this and know that my resolves remains just as strong now as it was a month ago. If not stronger. They should be worried. Not gloating. They should see us growing in numbers, ...
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...not shrinking. Writing more and more addresses each month.
There will always be losses. But we’re not losers until we give up.
Write on!
...not shrinking. Writing more and more addresses each month.
There will always be losses. But we’re not losers until we give up.
Write on!
