How To GOTV
On Caucus Day in Iowa, it’s all about GOTV: Get Out the Vote. Hillary Clinton’s campaign has handed out more than 600 snow shovels and bought hundreds of pounds of salt to make sure sidewalks and parking lots are clear across the state; they’ve enlisted more than 5,000 drivers and rented nearly 400 SUV’s to help the 4,927 people who’ve requested a ride get to their caucus location; they’ve even arranged for babysitters to take care of supporters’ children during caucus hours of 7-9pm.
Check out Clinton Iowa Director Teresa Vilmain explaining what the campaign is doing behind the scenes on the Big Day to translate ones and twos into actual delegates — and how they’ve trained precinct captains to bring supporters from other candidates and undecideds over to team Hillary.
(Quick Explainer: campaigns separate supporters into numbered categories: 1’s and 2s are a campaign’s firm supporters, as opposed to the undecided 3’s, negative leaning 4’s, and 5’s — which Clinton spokesman Jay Carson described as people who “wouldn’t caucus for you if you gave them a million dollars and cured their kid’s cancer”)
Also listen for a bit of the expectations game (Teresa says Clinton started with zero organization in the state, compared to Edwards who retained 74% of his precinct captains from 2004), and a numerical quantification of just how sick Iowans are of all the phone calls they’re getting — which, for undecideds, can hit 15 a night.
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Is this a way to choose a president? NO.
While the self-described Christians in Iowa vote for a big-government liberal former pastor this year, they would have voted for a big-government liberal Sunday School teacher in 1980 (Jimmy Carter) instead of Ronald Reagan because he was divorced and had signed pro-abortion legislation.
Mitt Romney? Never signed anything pro-choice, only pro-life as governor. Married to his high school sweetheart for 38 years. Understands the world economy, not on judicialwatch.org’s top ten most corrupt politicians (like Huckabee) and would not pardon murderers just because he felt like it (as Huck did twelve times–he pardoned more convicts than his previous three gov’ners did, including Bill Clinton. Huck is beyond soft on crime!!)
Huck, jester-in-chief.
Mitt, Presidential, ready to lead the biggest corporation on the planet.
Iowa, do not vote for the 2008 version of Jimmy Carter.
Appolo is Right. Mitt record is close to spotless from a conservative view. Before you say “no so”, dig into every vote or everything he signed and know all the circumstances. If you do, you will realize that this guy really is the “Reagan Conservative” and the “Huckster” is not. Do not be fooled by a false prophet Iowa!!!!!!!!!!!! Huck is on judicialwatch.org’s top ten most corrupt politicians for a reason.
I’m Methodist and I have no problem voting for the most moral of all the candidates, republican or democrat, MITT ROMNEY.