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Dulcinea

(10,179 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 07:40 AM Jul 2025

Postcards to Swing States needs your help!

(Crossposted from Activist forum)

There are off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania this year. Here's a link: https://turnoutpac.org/postcards/

Don't get mad, get busy!

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Postcards to Swing States needs your help! (Original Post) Dulcinea Jul 2025 OP
I'm retired and happy to do this but will it work? CTyankee Jul 2025 #1
According to their website it does make a difference. Dulcinea Jul 2025 #2
It absolutely does JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #4
I received one Monday JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #3
What did it say? CTyankee Jul 2025 #6
Reminder that NJ 7 is JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #7
That's excellent! CTyankee Jul 2025 #8
Kick Demovictory9 Jul 2025 #5
Kick Dulcinea Jul 2025 #9

CTyankee

(68,296 posts)
1. I'm retired and happy to do this but will it work?
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 07:44 AM
Jul 2025

If I lived in some red state and got a postcard from someone I don't know in far off Connecticut I probably wouldn't bother reading it. It would go in the daily stack of junk mail that I toss every day.

Dulcinea

(10,179 posts)
2. According to their website it does make a difference.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 08:15 AM
Jul 2025

Especially in close races. Handwritten postcards seem to be more effective than those glossy pieces of political mail that we all just toss in the trash or recycle bin. Here's another study: https://cdce.umd.edu/feature/power-postcard-rocking-vote-0

JustAnotherGen

(38,079 posts)
4. It absolutely does
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 09:16 AM
Jul 2025

I've been to postcard writing parties and my husband and I did several lots in the 2024 election.

It's a touch from another American asking us to help.

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