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Kicking Off Canvassing for Open Senate Seats in Minnesota and New Hampshire [1]

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Date: 2025-04-30

We re-registered 1 voter and 22 voters completed Constituent Service Request forms.

Hope Springs from Field PAC began knocking on doors again on March 1st. 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:

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.

New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced she wouldn’t seek reelection in mid-March and two names quickly emerged as the candidates to watch, both named Chris. Republican Chris Sununu had won four terms as governor and had left office with high approval ratings. And Chris Pappas, the Democrat who had held New Hampshire’s 1st CD since 2018 when he became the first openly gay man elected to represent New Hampshire in Congress. In the end, Sununu announced he won’t run for Senate in 2026.

At the beginning of the month Pappas jumped into the race. If elected, he would be the first openly gay male U.S. senator. Republican Tejasinha Sivalingam, who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in the 2022 U.S. Senate election, is the only other announced candidate so far.

48 volunteers came out to knock on doors in New Hampshire in 2 canvasses there. We had canvassed briefly there last year at the request of the (then) Biden campaign, so we had a small core to start with (We won’t have the benefit of that in Maine). We knocked on 3,480 doors and volunteers talked to 288 voters. 183 of those voters answered questions to at least part of the Issues Survey.

Inflation was the #1 Issue in New Hampshire on Saturday. Tariffs was the Second most cited Issue.

5% of the New Hampshire voters we talked to said they viewed these cuts in a favorable light (far fewer than i expected), 44% thought the DOGE cuts to Social Security services et al was problematic. 11% of the voters we talked to had a favorable impression of the job Trump was doing while 42% disapproved. 21% had a favorable impression of Gov. Ayotte while 28% disapproved.

Hope Springs volunteers registered 1 new 18 yo and re-registered 4 voters, who mainly updated their addresses as required by law. 11 voters filled out Constituent Service Request forms. We sent 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 and use a voter-driven approach to guide them through the Issues Survey, the CSR and Incident Report. We record questions voters raise with a Q(uestion)-slip and record other relevant observations on an Observations form. Q-slips are sent to the relevant Democrat to respond to and Observations are entered into VAN. 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.

But the main focus of our canvassing is the Issues Survey, asking voters for their input and concerns. Voter responses to the questionnaire are entered into VAN and made available to all Democratic candidates who use VAN in the state after the primary. Creating this kind of data isn’t done with a specific goal in mind but has the purpose of engaging voters and creating a dataset that any Democratic candidate can use in opposition to a Republican.

Hope Springs has targeted states that have competitive Senate races and/or Congressional Races in 2026. There is a lot of work to be done! Especially since we have had to expand the map this year. By starting early, and aiming towards super-compliance with some really, really onerous new voter regulations, Hope Springs from Field seeks to undermine that strategy, while informing voters about the new laws and regulations aimed at them and helping them to check their current voter registration status, if they cannot access it online themselves.

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