The Talarico campaign sent 4.7 million text messages in Spanish and English through volunteers directly to voters for the primary. I contributed as a volunteer in sending some of them. They used a good texting platform and had a good team of volunteers. The success rate of this text campaign can be ascertained from the Talarico campaign in terms of what percentage of the voters texted voted in the Democratic primary.
Will you please pass on this advice to the Democratic candidate to also invest in text banking where each conversation will cost around 5 or 6 cents ? He can leverage volunteers to send them. He can also use voter scores in VAN to target the Democratic leaning voters and keep cost down.
Thanks for sharing this. Text banking has become one of the most effective tools campaigns have for reaching voters directly, especially when volunteers are involved.
Thanks for the deep dives; learning a lot. Possible future topic: Fallout from gerrymandering. Republicans targeted 5 seats: Green, Cuellar, Johnson, V. Gonzalez, Casar. We lost Doggett, kept Casar. Johnson/Allred are in a runoff, Green/Menefee in another. Veasey and Crockett won't return. How do you see the impact of the new maps?
Thank you, Michelle-- this piece was really timely, for me. I'm grateful to know we're still connected.
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Haha. Why wouldn't we be?
We made a long international call today & a lot of things got changed. Things have ben weirder ever since, lol..
The orange one hasn't blown us to smithereens...yet. Give it a few more months.
Lol
Thanks again for an informative article.
The Talarico campaign sent 4.7 million text messages in Spanish and English through volunteers directly to voters for the primary. I contributed as a volunteer in sending some of them. They used a good texting platform and had a good team of volunteers. The success rate of this text campaign can be ascertained from the Talarico campaign in terms of what percentage of the voters texted voted in the Democratic primary.
Will you please pass on this advice to the Democratic candidate to also invest in text banking where each conversation will cost around 5 or 6 cents ? He can leverage volunteers to send them. He can also use voter scores in VAN to target the Democratic leaning voters and keep cost down.
Thoughts?
Thanks for sharing this. Text banking has become one of the most effective tools campaigns have for reaching voters directly, especially when volunteers are involved.
Thanks for the deep dives; learning a lot. Possible future topic: Fallout from gerrymandering. Republicans targeted 5 seats: Green, Cuellar, Johnson, V. Gonzalez, Casar. We lost Doggett, kept Casar. Johnson/Allred are in a runoff, Green/Menefee in another. Veasey and Crockett won't return. How do you see the impact of the new maps?
Every Dem in Houston should be helping out!