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State of the Race: Don't freak out—get to work (www.dailykos.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"A little over two weeks left, and people are losing their freakin’ minds. And I get it: We have a lot more to lose than they do. If we win, their lives will improve (whether they want to admit it or not). If they win, we’ll lose our rights."

Unfortunately it's kinda "worse" than this even...

If we win we still almost certainly lose the Senate, so nothing happens. Because nothing happens and Faux news keeps The Base in a frothing rage, they keep/regain the house in 2026. No improvement or anything happens for the entirety of the 4 year term. If they win they win the trifecta and get their entire wishlist... :(

I hate how "easy" their job is. Stall Democrats plan, they win. Win the trifecta and help billionaires more they win...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not at all certain we lose the senate. There's actually a real chance we win. If we flip Texas senate (super close) or Florida senate (fairly close) or squeek by in Montana, we can keep the senate

Alternatively, we could also get a 49-50-1 senate if union-leader indepdent Dan Osborn flips Nebraska which polling suggests he is really got a chance to do. It's gone from a close race to a close race with osborn up slightly

Recently leaked republican GOP senate internals suggest republicans are much more worried about it than they are publicly letting on

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/13/senate-republican-poll-memo-00183570

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I really hope that's true! We really need some good news

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Helpful links

Register to vote if you haven't. Deadlines are within days in the many states

Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online

Write letters to voters in swing states or competitive downballot races

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've done some letters from Vote Forward. I'm not sure it's the way. For one, you have to hand-write messages, which is time consuming at scale. For another thing, personally, I would like to be partisan. I want Trump to lose, and I'd like to send my get out the vote letters to Democrats.

I'm not saying they're doing any kind of bad thing, but I did think about finding addresses for Democratically registered people in swing states, and just doing my own thing batch-printing letters encouraging them to vote with handwritten signature and addresses on the envelopes. I think I might be able to have a serious impact that way.

Also, what happened to text banking? I thought about trying to do that but I haven't been able to find where to sign up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are writing to likely dems with Vote Forward. The political campaign ones are explicitly going to likely dems, the social campaign ones are going to underrepresented demographics - which typically lean towards dems. Their research has just found that writing partisan messages doesn't work as well for increasing voter turnout, so they say not to write parsian messages. Similar for how writing by hand works better

There are still text banks still open! Here's some with Field Team 6

https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?show_all_events=true&tag_ids=22573

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That makes perfect sense. I'll finish up the pile I have today, and I also signed up for text banking. Thanks for the link! This is wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also note that one the link I sent earlier shows other volunteer opportunities like phonebanking and canvasing (door knocking)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know for me personally, I don’t want anything printed out ever. It’s just waste, and if I see any flyer or those letters for example it just upsets me. I get the sentiment and maybe in years past, but outside of official communications from an agency don’t send me shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I dunno what "get to work" means. I would be open to volunteering, but it seems like they want phone banking and door-to-door canvassing. I'm not willing to talk to right wingers and fence sitters, so I just haven't done it.

I volunteered for the Kerry campaign, and it was awful. Mostly talked to knuckle draggers who realized that Dems were more in their self interest but didn't want gay marriage (which wasn't even on the table as an issue then).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Textbank for Democrats: https://www.mobilize.us/ft6/?show_all_events=true&tag_ids=22573

Textbank for Ranked Choice Voting: https://represent.us/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Have you checked out letter writing? That's a good way to have a personal impact without having to directly interact with Nazis.

Votefwd.org

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When I canvased it was to a specific list of registered Dems they were looking to get to the polls. Talk to your local field office again. They won't send you directly into the field of fire to deal with MAGAts if you don't want to. The couple I did talk to, I just encouraged or thanked them for voting.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago

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