Look familiar?
Posted on 01/31/2016 12:04:53 AM PST by JediJones
A voter report card mailer is grading residents on how often they vote compared to their neighbors and some Missourians aren't happy.
Grow Missouri sent the mailers the week before the Nov. 4 election to spur residents into voting during the first general election in nearly a quarter-century featuring no race for president, U.S. Senate or governor.
The group is financed by investment firm founder Rex Sinquefield, the state's most prominent political donor.
The voter report cards give letter grades to voters based on participation and then list neighbors' scores. The mailer says it might issue another report after the election.
Some residents say the mailer is an invasion of privacy, even though voting records are public. Efforts nationwide have met similar complaints.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox2now.com ...
If you can’t see the differences, it is because you refuse.
Terrible.
There was a campaign where I live that mistakenly set the robo caller to 1-4 am. That made the new as well.
What do you mean?
POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!!!!!
POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!!!
POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!!!
POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!!!
POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!!!
I don’t know, I’m thinking the magic of it might be that it gets neighbors talking to each other and maybe they all agree to go out and vote.
The problem is that makes sense in a general election when you can target Republicans easily, who are going to be very likely to vote Republican. But I don’t know if they had the ability to only send these to Cruz-leaners. So they might be motivating voters for all the other candidates too.
I think I made my point. Go away.
So Ted isn’t the only idiot out there.
Nice to know.
I don’t care if 500 candidates did it last year.
If one of those came to my home, that guy would never get another vote of mine.
obviously Jedi you need to go back and feed the cats. Anyway, one of the originators of this type of mailer, Chris Larimer was quoted in the WAPO that the Cruz Campaign went around the bend with their mailer by turning it all negative and thus it is back firing.
“And in an email, Larimer told the Washington Post that Cruz had taken a good idea and bent it.
“As a researcher who has done randomized field experiments with get out the vote mailings,” Larimer wrote in an email, “what I can say is that mailings that call attention to an individual’s vote history as well as that of their neighbors’ have been shown to be effective in terms of significantly increasing voter turnout. We draw on norm compliance theory which suggests that publicizing behavior regarding a social norm increases the likelihood of norm compliance.”
That was if the ad was crafted in a smart way. “The Cruz mailing is more negative than anything we have done and has the potential to elicit a negative response or what psychologists call ‘reactance’ or ‘boomerang effect,’”warned Larimer. “The mailing also states that a ‘follow up notice’ will be sent following the caucuses on Monday. This is not possible as caucus turnout is private and maintained by the parties.”
Which is one reason I posted it. That guy in WaPo is wrong. The mailer wasn’t “turned into” anything by the Cruz campaign. The exact format was used in 2014.
The guy in WAPO was one of the originators of this type of mailing. In the picture you supplied, where does it say VOTING VIOLATION? If you can point that out to me I will apologize and feed your cats for the next week.
Exactly Jedi....that is what I thought. You will have to feed your own cats.
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It doesn’t matter who has used this before. It’s not the right thing to do. The other cases of this may have got minimal media attention, but this time it has gone viral and will hurt him.
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