It seems that we have to relearn how to do these things in every election cycle, and we're regressing. I worked for both of Bush's campaigns, and although the technology was nowhere near comparable to what we have now, I never had a runner come late to my polls, and I never missed getting a call.
We have FOUR registered Republicans in this house, and two of us contributed money to Romneys' campaign. Because we all like to vote together, we're usually the last to vote in our small sub-suburban polling place, and we head over to the fire hall around 7:30 PM. During McCain's run, there were only two of us. We got multiple calls on election day reminding us to vote. We did not receive a single call on Nov 6th reminding us to vote.
NOT ONE CALL. In a state Romney supposedly believed he could win: PA.
Leave it the Class of ‘98 to nail it! The operation should be in place and available to our nominee. I covered three operations for my www.OurtownFLA.com : The “Organizing for America” that transitioned to “Obama for America” and the Koch Brothers “Americans For Prosperity” and then Romney HQ. Although the Romney HQ wasn’t so bad as to have greenbar paper to call off of but the callers had to call form a seat in their office. “Obama for America” and “Americans For Prosperity” both had software where you could go to a website and access the next person to call who would see your phone number on caller ID instead of Romney for President. They would tell me they had people calling from coffee shops. “Americans For Prosperity” couldn’t mention Romney’s name so they couldn’t be overly effective but I’m sure the Koch Bros would have sold the republican party the software if they were smart enough to ask. Great idea FZ
You know, I think you are right. I had maybe 3 types of calls (I didn’t answer but one) over the course of the campaign: a robo call gal, can’t remember her topic but she left a handful of voicemails; an Unavailable that never left a voicemail; and someone calling for my son from a Hispanic education something or other that I sent away (sorry, not interested, leave us alone). But, I don’t think we got a single call on election day.
I was in a PA victory center on Tuesday, manning a phone for 9 hours. I asked the director of the center what demo I was calling. Basically, it was all low motivated GOP / swing voters. A vital demo, but no effort to reach strongly motivated GOP voters that I could see.