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Florida Volunteers top out. Good Democrats needed to Run in 3 CDs & the Senate [1]

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Date: 2025-07-18

The Economy was the Top Issue in Florida on Saturday. Concern over Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid was second and Tariffs was third.

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. We’ve been asking voters if they approve of the sudden and deep cuts in federal programs and agencies. On Saturday, 1% of the voters we talked to said they viewed these cuts in a favorable light. 21% disapproved. 10% of the voters we talked to had a favorable impression of the job Trump was doing, while 44% disapproved.

Florida has a new, appointed Senator due to the elevation of Mario Rubio to the White House. Ashley Moody, the new Senator, isn’t that well known to the voters we’ve talked to these last few months. On Saturday, 4% of the voters who responded approved of the job Sen. Moody was doing while a mere 26% expressed Disapproval. In other words, only 30% of the voters we talked to expressed an opinion either way — and that’s not normal, because people tend to have opinions about their Senators. 14% approved of what Gov. DeSantis was doing and 44% disapproved. You probably notice that DeSantis has taken a real beating since we are out of FL-06 (a congressional district in which he served before becoming governor).

Hope Springs volunteers registered 57 new voters on Saturday (primarily African-America). We re-registered 22 voters, who mainly updated their addresses, all using the Florida Sec. of State website to conform to Florida’s onerous voter registration laws for volunteers.

317 voters filled out Constituent Service Request forms on Saturday. 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.

11 voters filled out Incident Reports. Incident Reports are used to plan Election Protection activities, and will be combined with other, historical incidents and handed over to District and State Attorneys, Attorney Generals and the DoJ Civil Rights Division right before Election Day as a precaution against Election Day Incidents in November. Past polling place activity is a predictor of future voter intimidation or suppression activity.

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.

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