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What Voters are telling us at their Doors about Democrats [1]
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Date: 2025-03-20
More often than not, it seems, what we hear at voter’s doors is dramatically different than what you see online. It’s one of the biggest reasons why i always tell people they should knock on doors to understand the electorate. Let’s face it, even if the country seems to be moving against diversity of opinion, there is no lack of diversity of opinion among Democrats and unaffiliated voters. Not even a little bit.
Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteers have been knocking on doors nationwide for 3 weekends now (and in FL-06 since the first weekend of February) and have collected more than 5,000 Issues Surveys. Admittedly, we have a higher percentage of questionnaires from Florida since we’ve been canvassing there a month longer. But that just makes these findings more remarkable.
As you can see, volunteers ask a number of open-ended questions, and we are looking for immediate feedback. We ask volunteers to tell voters who pause at a question that, “it’s not a test, we can move on.” I’ve spent more than 40 minutes with a voter this year who had a lot to say, so we don’t exactly encourage voters to think a long time about how to answer a question. We want visceral responses because they are the kinds of things that will stick with voters and be part of their considerations on how to vote.
It is also important to note that these responses are entered into VAN, the shared Democratic voter database and made available to Democratic candidates after the primaries are concluded.
Looking over the results we’ve collected so far there are 3 basic questions where voters we’ve talked to this year are weighing in about Democrats and our leadership in Congress: Q6 (“If you could send one message to your Member of Congress, what would it be?”), Q8 (“Do You have any concerns about the upcoming elections?”) and Q9 (“Anything else to add”) — the latter being the most popular in this regard.
The most common response in this particular context is that Democrats should “fight, fight, fight.” You might not have expected Democratic voters to adopt the verbage of President Felon, but they have (among the voters we have talked to): 231 voters have used they specific term(s) in reply. No other comment comes close here. And that doesn’t include the question (why aren’t Democrats fighting back?), or declaration (Democrats should be fighting back!) or any other variation of the word fight. If you include all the variations of fight, 816 voters in Senate Swing States and/or Congressional District we have talked to this year have brought it up.
Things voters say.
It’s almost like they are sending us a message. And it isn’t just registered Democrats. We are hearing this from unaffiliated voters, as well.
Hope Springs from Field PAC began knocking on doors nationwide again on March 1st (we add states as weather permits). We target 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. The voters we talk to continue to tell us they come away more invested in governance and feel more favorably towards Democrats in general because of our approach.
Obviously, we rely on grassroots support, so if you support field/grassroots organizing, voter registration (and follow-up) and our efforts to protect our voters, we would certainly appreciate your support:
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