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Revving Up for Pennsylvania GOTV & Winding Down our Georgia Canvasses for the year [1]
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Date: 2023-11-01
Ohio is not the only state where there’s an important election next Tuesday. Pennsylvania has (mostly) local elections with a PA Supreme Court seat is also on the ballot. But that Supreme Court seat is, well, another Supreme Court seat. In another swing state. Democrats in Pennsylvania are using the court races as a way to mobilize voters for local races, as well. Anything to catch our base’s attention.
2024 Senate Battleground Map
Every election is important. Even more so for Democrats because we don’t have the fidelity to voting that Republicans do. We have to work for our turnout. I wish it weren’t so, but it is. The Democratic coalition is so diverse and so many of our core voters look at each election through the lens of, “what’s in it for me?”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But it’s a fact. And it’s not going to change. The more in-person voter contact we have, especially when it is matched by related advertising (field should be coordinated with message strategy) and digital attention, the more Democratic voters we turn out. Turn out is the name of the game, especially in the last week before an election. Several Pennsylvania volunteers wanted to hear me say it: It’s GO(TV) TIME, baby!
I think voters are often perplexed by the whole electing judges thing. Especially this time:
This year’s race will not change partisan control of the court, which currently has a 4-2 majority of judges elected as Democrats, with one vacancy after the September 2022 death of former Chief Justice Max Baer. But that majority could fade quickly, said Democratic political operative J.J. Abbott, as all four incumbent Democratic justices will either face retention or reach their mandatory retirement age by 2027.
And, believe me, Republicans understand the need to play the long game. So we have to, as well.
Our Pennsylvania volunteers have learned from their helping in Ohio this Summer about the “homework solution.” That’s what one Pittsburgh volunteer called it, who said she was frustrated by how few people she could talk to if she did phone banking or canvassing. “But if I take the (walk) list home, I find a lot more voters I can talk to!” By last Saturday, Pennsylvania volunteers found another 9,179 voters who answered at least some of the questions on our Issues Survey (we use a truncated version for phone calls) which more than doubled the number of voters we contacted the previous week.
602 volunteers came out to knock on doors in Philadelphia and the Pittsburgh suburbs last Saturday. The grey Congressional Districts (PA-01, PA-07 & PA-17) represent most of where we are targeting, but we also walking on the Mainline and in minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia as well. Hope Springs for Field PAC volunteers knocked on 44,969 doors last Saturday and talked to 3,498 voters. 2,228 of those voters answered questions to at least part of the Issues Survey.
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