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I just sent out 150 hand written letters via Vote Forward to low propensity democratic swing state voters!! (Original Post) texasfiddler Yesterday OP
Late starter here Just Jerome 23 hrs ago #1
This is what wins elections!!! Thank you!! texasfiddler 23 hrs ago #2
AWESOME work! Thank you so much. Grown2Hate 23 hrs ago #3
Bravo! Kaleva 23 hrs ago #4
You ROCK!! tavernier 23 hrs ago #5
Thank you for all your letters! HeartsCanHope 23 hrs ago #6
Thank you for what you do! qwlauren35 22 hrs ago #13
You're welcome! It was a labor of love. Take care! HeartsCanHope 19 hrs ago #27
I'm sending out 500 later this month. Ms. Toad 20 hrs ago #24
Wow! HeartsCanHope 19 hrs ago #26
That's the message I chose, too. n/t Ms. Toad 18 hrs ago #28
Excellent! My postcards are coming on Monday. Excited to do my part. callous taoboy 15 hrs ago #31
Thank you for writing postcards! May your fingers stay strong! HeartsCanHope 13 hrs ago #32
Postcards to Ohio Fiddlelady11 23 hrs ago #7
YOU GO!!!! qwlauren35 22 hrs ago #14
I'm postcarding new voters cilla4progress 23 hrs ago #8
Many thanks to everyone on this thread writing and calling. MLAA 22 hrs ago #9
Your post is why we are going to win this election. Thank you!!! texasfiddler 22 hrs ago #10
You guys inspired me! MLAA 22 hrs ago #11
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! qwlauren35 22 hrs ago #12
300 Postcards to Nevada people 22 hrs ago #15
These are the things Figarosmom 22 hrs ago #16
250 Postcards to GA for me. onecaliberal 21 hrs ago #17
So cool 😎 🙏. n/t iluvtennis 21 hrs ago #18
Well done, texasfiddler!!! I'm phone banking again this weekend. littlemissmartypants 21 hrs ago #19
Good for you! Thank you. LoisB 21 hrs ago #20
💙 Deuxcents 21 hrs ago #21
Thank you! relayerbob 21 hrs ago #22
You are my inspiration! Mme. Defarge 20 hrs ago #23
Thank you. Seeing so many good people doing this together is my inspiration. texasfiddler 12 hrs ago #33
Great work. 👍 oasis 19 hrs ago #25
i have received 200 postcards to write and mail BlueWaveNeverEnd 18 hrs ago #29
Wife and I are doing GOTV postcards. It's wonderful, encouraging work and dobleremolque 17 hrs ago #30
My hands cramped up several times during the process. I might need a hand massage as well. texasfiddler 12 hrs ago #34
Same here. Prairie_Seagull 12 hrs ago #35

Just Jerome

(69 posts)
1. Late starter here
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:20 PM
23 hrs ago

Just started phone banking in 2022. Flipped our state house seat blue! At it again to re-elect her. Also phone banking to flip our Senate seat (josh hawley, AAARRGH!) Wife and I are sending post cards to other states!

Can you FEEEEL the love, people?

tavernier

(13,085 posts)
5. You ROCK!!
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:07 PM
23 hrs ago

I’m going tomorrow to a Kamala caravan. I only have a bumper sticker but we’ll figure something else out.”

HeartsCanHope

(595 posts)
6. Thank you for all your letters!
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:11 PM
23 hrs ago

My son and I are sending Postcards To Swing States. They are also handwritten. Between the two of us we wrote 400 of them. They get mailed later this month. There's another DUer that is sending something like 800 postcards for the same organization and has been sending them for different elections since 2020! Thank you to everyone for all you are doing!!

Ms. Toad

(35,229 posts)
24. I'm sending out 500 later this month.
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 01:11 AM
20 hrs ago

I've been writing them since around 2020.

Oddly enough, I received one this week. Odd, because they are supposed to target voters who are inconsistent - but vote blue when they do vote. I'm hardly an inconsistent voter. I think I have missed 3 elections since my first vote in 1976 - all primaries or special elections when there was nothing I cared about (or no candidates with opposition).

I found the message the writer chose as creepy as it I found it when I was choosing which message to write. (The message was the one about the record of your voting being public, even though who you vote for is private.)

HeartsCanHope

(595 posts)
26. Wow!
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 02:04 AM
19 hrs ago

My son and I did ours a few at a time, but it took awhile. We started with just 200, but finished them quickly enough that we sent off for another 200. I am so impressed that you did 500!! We used the one about needing to remind others to vote. We felt it was a positive message, and the message we would rather receive. I think they had so many people sign up this time that they were targeting other types of voters. We had to wait longer for the 2nd batch to arrive than the first batch. Thank you for writing so many! You rock!

MLAA

(18,293 posts)
9. Many thanks to everyone on this thread writing and calling.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:19 PM
22 hrs ago

I’m going to go right this minute and make another donation in your honor!

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people

(673 posts)
15. 300 Postcards to Nevada
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:57 PM
22 hrs ago

Supposed to mail them Oct. 27. Just 30 left to do. Hope it helps secure a Harris and Walz win in Nevada and in the Electoral College.

littlemissmartypants

(24,124 posts)
19. Well done, texasfiddler!!! I'm phone banking again this weekend.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:37 PM
21 hrs ago

Training election workers starts Monday.




GOTV!!

relayerbob

(6,911 posts)
22. Thank you!
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 12:13 AM
21 hrs ago

I have 400 postcards to Georgia voters written, and ready to mail at the appropriate time (I'm cheating and sending them a little, because I printed up a blue sticker for them that says "Early voting starts Oct 15".

LFG!!

Mme. Defarge

(8,437 posts)
23. You are my inspiration!
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 01:00 AM
20 hrs ago

I have done 20 letters so far for people in North Carolina, Arizona and Michigan. It’s my first involvement with Vote Forward and I like working at home and on my own schedule. Now I really need to up my game!

dobleremolque

(852 posts)
30. Wife and I are doing GOTV postcards. It's wonderful, encouraging work and
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 03:34 AM
17 hrs ago

after it's over, I'm treating both wife and me to hand massages, (i.e. massages of our hands ... just to clarify) at the local Vietnamese hand and foot massage business in the shopping center down the street. Writers cramps is a real GOTV occupational hazard.

texasfiddler

(2,160 posts)
34. My hands cramped up several times during the process. I might need a hand massage as well.
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 08:52 AM
12 hrs ago

Great Idea about the hand massage

Prairie_Seagull

(3,589 posts)
35. Same here.
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 08:54 AM
12 hrs ago

Doesn't work for shit writing them anywhere near a TV, laptop whatever. Do them on the kitchen or other table. I was filling out a card to someone named Rachel. One guess who's last name I wrote. Does white out affect impact? He jests.

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