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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey can't match our ground game. They never could. It's our superpower
We can lament about shit, doomscroll until we are truly horrified, or we can do what we do best...
ACTIVATE!!!
Today I hope to get my errands done early enough to head over MD's border to PA to help Fetterman. Some of us aren't able to mobilize that way. Not everyone can do everything, but each one can do something.
Here is a link for anyone interested enough to try. Please post your mobilization links here too. We can do this.
https://www.mobilize.us/crooked/
Joinfortmill
(21,360 posts)Amishman
(5,929 posts)Our base tends to be heavily concentrated in suburban and urban areas, which puts us at a major disadvantage with anything districted.
But that same concentration of voters in a small geographic footprint makes organizing and physical campaigning a whole lot easier.
ColinC
(11,098 posts)For instance I live in Boston. Plan to be knocking NH.
Amishman
(5,929 posts)My driveway is about 1/6th of a mile long. Quite a few houses on my street aren't even visible from the road. Going door to door in rural areas is very inefficient. The Pubs are strongest in rural areas where a ground game is most difficult.
ColinC
(11,098 posts)Yeah Ive never really been around New Hampshire. But I also expect a more rural layout when I knock next Tuesday.
Elessar Zappa
(16,385 posts)We have the advantage when it comes to knocking on doors.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,699 posts)We Dems vote if the candidate excites us, if the issue moves us, if it's sunny and warm, if there's gas in the car, if we can find a babysitter, if we don't have to cook dinner, if the laundry is done, if there's nothing good on television.
Reps just vote. Like they think it's their duty or something.
SheltieLover
(81,228 posts)moonscape
(5,784 posts)CCExile
(524 posts)and that state is even redder than mine. Guess I'll have to find a better way! Keep up the good work.
yellowdogintexas
(23,726 posts)are nearest your ZIP.
There may be a red area in your nearby area that needs some GOTV prodding. In red areas folks don't think they need to bother to vote.
Some days I find them within 5 miles, other days they are farther away. That depends on the individual who is leading the walk.
Baltimike
(4,441 posts)Wednesdays
(22,822 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,851 posts)My husband and I are are text banking for NJ, VA, NY, PA, CA, WI, NC, IL,and SD!
And we plan to add more shifts!
On Sunday we texted for 5 hours and plan to do far more texting in the next week!
We also attended a Roevember rally a couple of weeks ago!
Mikie Sherrill was there with surprise speaker Cory Booker!
While we marched around with pro-choice signs drivers honked their support!
This was in Montclair, NJ where Eric Boehlert lived 😭
Mikie Sherrill and Stephen Colbert also live there.
I wish there was a way I could upload videos to this post!
I know you can upload photos, but I dont know about video!
Baltimike
(4,441 posts)Maybe some in our more rural areas would be interested in that.
FelineOverlord
(3,851 posts)At the Democrats website:
https://events.democrats.org/?event_type=3&is_virtual=true
Also state Democratic organizations may have them.