Posted on 01/29/2016 10:28:45 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.
The text reads:
"You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors' are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses".
In an effort to shame the recipient, the notice also informs the targeted voter their neighbors have also been notified of the recipients poor voting record.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
I’m not sure what your emphasis was there.
Ted’s campaign tactic or my addressing it as I did?
John King â€@JohnKingCNN 10s10 seconds ago . @IowaSOS Iowa calls @tedcruz mailer "wrong and I believe it is not in keeping in the spirit of the Iowa Caucuses."
Cruz isn’t stupid, so maybe he is boiling mad over this, because it really looks like a stupid move.
I can’t imagine a person who rarely votes being motivated to go vote for the guy who sent me a mailer like that but, again, Cruz isn’t stupid. So that’s got me wondering if there’s a different motive for sending it out?
For example, would it be more or less likely to convince them to go out and vote at all, regardless who they liked. If they went to a Trump rally and liked what they heard, then got that mailer, would that motivate them to go vote for Trump, or would they just ball it up, toss it away, and say “Screw them,” lumping all politicians together.
After all, you’re talking about people who rarely take the time to vote and who, therefore, probably don’t pay much attention at this stage of the process. Remember, about half of Americans don’t even bother to vote in the general election for President.
I just can’t imagine any campaign thinking this is a good way to get voter support, so something else must be motivating the move. I just don’t know what that would be.
“Shark has been jumped.”
And it’s about to be filleted and deep fried - I understand The Donald has garnered a taste for CANADIAN cuisine.
Timing was bad. They should have put this out weeks or months ago...
I don’t see anything wrong with them. Electric companies use them all the time.
As a matter of fact, this has been done before. Experts say it works.
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And if Trump did this, you Cruz supporters would be going apoplectic!
swampwiz0
>>I support Trump & Sanders almost equally, although I have to make absolutely sure that I can trust Trump to only replace ObamaRomneyHeritageCare with Medicare-For-All (which he has alluded to in the debates.)<<
For Trump supporters, here’s how one voter perceives Trump. His other choice is Sanders and this was his reply in another forum when I asserted that many Trump supporters have Sanders as their second choice.
For sure, someone is going to be surprised if Trump wins. I just hope it’s him, and not the conservatives who have rallied to Trump.
For my money, that guy has a better handle on Trump, by the way.
Oh, dear - you poor lost soul - did you ever just step in it.
Red State sat there, with all their deranged lunacy, and declared that the Ted Cruz campaign should be better than this, because “these are Donald Trump tactics.” So even in defeat, the slimeballs tie Trump to the bad behavior of their candidate.
Not at all. How many times does one have to point out that this is not a new tactic?
It is not a BFD.
I will tell you how grossly offended I was when Indy Power and Light pulled this crap. They sent out shame letters telling me I use more power than my neighbors.
The only problem is that those SOBs didn’t bother to figure in that I have a blind neighbor on one side, two neighbors who are never home and a bunch of seniors who don’t use technology.
I think that our power company must have had truckloads of
“go eat shat” responses. Including mine. They quit doing it.
If you think this is okay, fine, but I purposely upped my power usage in retaliation.
Spox said ‘narrow’, so it’s likely not many people, it may be as innocuous as the marketing company testing the tactic on low turnout areas. Or it could be sabotage. But whoever said ‘print ‘em!’ on the mailing never cleared it with the campaign’s top leadership, that much is obvious.
BS, the the Cruz campaign manager admitted doing it.
Conservatives take responsibility for what they do. narrow, my azz. It was the whole state of Iowa.
Truth is is that this is not a Trump tactic.
This is a Ted Cruz tactic and they need to own it. Trump isn’t a sly little creep like you know who.
Denial is more than a river in Egypt!
“Different voters need different tactics.”
Well, they certainly do when the truth would be a no go. That seems to be the case here.
It's obvious that it was Cruz's idea to put out this mailer, overruling his campaign staff who argued against it.
Or anyway, that is just as "obvious" as your speculation.
TED RAFAEL CRUZ - “the high pressure” CANADIAN USED CAR SALESMAN ....
“Eh! Youze buy dis ****** cah, or I break you ****** head!
I got one of those I’m voting for Rubio now!!!
I’ve been on this site since 1998!! How about you?
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