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How much of the "ground game" is just paying people to vote?

Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:40 am
Posted by Jimmy2shoes
The South
Member since Mar 2014
11004 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:40 am
We all know the street money is given to the "organizers" but how much goes to the voter to get them off their rear end and go vote?
Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:40 am to
$0
Posted by Hog on the Hill
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:42 am to
None. GOTV is all about knocking on doors and making phone calls to people who the campaign has identified as likely voters for your candidate. The whole idea is to have that person-to-person contact with someone representing the campaign to give them that extra psychological incentive to actually get out and vote.

If you only turn out an extra 2-3% of those who support your candidate, that can be enough to win a swing state.
This post was edited on 11/8/16 at 7:44 am
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
35131 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:43 am to
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None. GOTV is all about knocking on doors and making phone calls to people who the campaign has identified as likely voters for your candidate. The whole idea is to have that person-to-person contact with someone representing the campaign to give them that extra psychological incentive to actually get out and vote.


OP didn't limit this to non-Democrat efforts.
Posted by Hog on the Hill
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:44 am to
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OP didn't limit this to non-Democrat efforts.
Correct
Posted by thelawnwranglers
Member since Sep 2007
42242 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:44 am to
To me Ground Game translate roughly to voter fraud, but I am jaded.
Posted by Jbird
Shoot the tires out!
Member since Oct 2012
88335 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:45 am to
Lots of dough goes to the Pastor, he tells the flock Hillionaire will save them, they need to vote!

Souls to Polls baby, then after that they want a large separation of church and state, well until four years later that is.
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
35131 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:45 am to
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Correct


but your description did (the implication).
Posted by Port Royal
You Name It , I've Been There
Member since Nov 2016
1811 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:46 am to
$100 bill and a bus ride
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
121438 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:46 am to
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None. GOTV is all about knocking on doors and making phone calls to people who the campaign has identified as likely voters for your candidate. The whole idea is to have that person-to-person contact with someone representing the campaign to give them that extra psychological incentive to actually get out and vote.





No 19 year old intern is going to convince someone to vote.

No, GOTV is bus rides and free chicken dinners.
Posted by Hog on the Hill
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:46 am to
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but your description did (the implication).
Incorrect
Posted by Malik Agar
Member since Nov 2012
12076 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:46 am to
Democrat "ground game" consists of getting people 6 feet under to vote.
Posted by Crimson Wraith
Member since Jan 2014
29747 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:46 am to
They bus them in gubment buses, give them box lunches, etc.

How many times they vote we'll never know.
Posted by DupontsCircle
Dupont Circle
Member since Jun 2016
5823 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:47 am to
I don't like you but it's true. They knocked on my door in VA weekly. Weekly I chased them off.
Posted by uway
Member since Sep 2004
33109 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:49 am to
Democrats love shaming and pressuring people into voting Democrat.

It's an "all for the cause" mindset that anyone who wants to defeat them has to adopt.
Posted by DupontsCircle
Dupont Circle
Member since Jun 2016
5823 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:51 am to
True, good point
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
114126 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:52 am to
100%
Posted by Magician2
Member since Oct 2015
14553 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:53 am to
Refer to Project Veritas videos regarding the dnc strategy for GOTV
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
88429 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:54 am to
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None. GOTV is all about knocking on doors and making phone calls to people who the campaign has identified as likely voters for your candidate.


And then buying them a Popeyes two-piece or a Big Mac to get them on the bus.

You left that part out.
Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
39242 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 7:55 am to
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We all know the street money is given to the "organizers" but how much goes to the voter to get them off their rear end and go vote?


That Phone in their pocket is motivation enough. Straight link to a vote day text message to 'get your arse out there and vote Dem...or lose your phone/subsidies!
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