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Final Canvass for 2023: Swing State Arizona for the Win! [1]
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Date: 2023-11-21
Hope Springs volunteers knocked on 21,513 doors last Saturday. Volunteers talked to 1,686 voters , and 1,033 of those voters answered questions from at least part of the Issues Survey.
The Economy was the Number 1 issue for the Arizonans we talked to on Saturday. Political Stability was the #2 issue voters raised, mostly centered around Trump’s adventures in courts and the efforts to get him thrown off the ballot for leading the insurrection on January 6th. Healthcare Costs was third. This is the period where people get a choice in next year’s healthcare, and so they see what it will cost them.
Among the Arizonans we talked to Biden’s Job Approval was at 47%; 11% expressed some measure of Disapproval. 5% of the voters who responded Approved of the job Sen. Sinema was doing while 41% expressed Disapproval. It is important to remember that we are knocking on the doors of Democrats and unaffiliated voters. We aren’t finding many of those who are supportive of Sinema. Given the interest in this race, we also ask about whether voters Approve of likely Democratic nominee Ruben Gallego. 50% of the voters we talked to had a positive impression of the Congressman.
50% of the voters we talked to thought Gov. Hobbs was doing a good job, 7% said they disapproved of the job she was doing. Because some of our volunteers want to compare Sinema disapproval numbers to Rep. Ruben Gallego’s approval numbers, we include it here (as we have each week).
Hope Springs from Field PAC has been knocking on doors since March in a grassroots effort to prepare the 2024 Electoral Battleground in what has been called the First and Second Rounds of a traditional Five Round Canvass. We are canvassing Democrats and unaffiliated voters with a systematic approach that reminds them not only that Democrats care, but Democrats are determined to deliver the best government possible to all Americans.
Obviously, we rely on grassroots support, so if you support field/grassroots organizing, voter registration (and follow-up), GOTV and our efforts to protect our voters, we would certainly appreciate your support:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hopemobilization
Hope Springs from Field understands that volunteer to voter personal interactions are critical. Knocking on doors has repeatedly been found to be the most successful tactic to get voters to cast a ballot and that is the goal of what we do.
We registered 5 new voters and re-registered 41 voters who updated their addresses (or updated their voter registration to participate in the Active Early Voting List — the latter skews the number higher). We differentiate between the new voters and re-registering voters because brand new voters are often ignored by campaigns and we hope to compensate for that somewhat by having volunteers send them post cards before the election and they will also receive robocalls thanking them for registering.
In Arizona, we had 39 voters fill out Constituent Service Request forms. We send completed CSRs to Democratic elected officials responsible for the requested functions, but if the appropriate office is held by a Republican, we still send it along. For Democrats, though, we encourage them to reach out immediately to the voter who filled out the Constituent Service Request forms and let them know they are working on the issue. This credit-taking is enormously valuable to the Democratic office-holder.
We knock on the doors of Democratic and Independent voters. At every door, we leave a piece of “show the flag” lit, something that tells them we were there and hopefully reinforces the Democratic brand. The lit focuses on the things voters told us were important to them last fall, aiming to appeal to every voter.
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