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To: 20yearsofinternet; Thapsus

Voter Shaming is an old leftist tradition!

‘Vote-Shaming’: An Effective Leftist Strategy
American Thinker ^
Posted on 1/30/2016, 8:18:10 AM by Thapsus

FYI: BACKGROUND ON “VOTER-SHAMING”/”VOTER REPORT CARDS”

From the American Thinker: ‘Vote-Shaming’: An Effective Leftist Strategy

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/voteshaming_an_effective_leftist_strategy.html

“While campaigns nationwide are hysterically ramping up their ‘get out the vote’ (GOTV) efforts, Democrats are banking on a strategy that worked for them in 2012, hoping it will give them an edge and allow them to eke out some victories.” [....] “This kind of tactic could never work on conservative, independent, Republican, or Libertarian voters. Our DNA does not include the sheeple gene, and we are just not cut from the groupthink cloth. “

From Rush Limbaugh: New Democrat Tactic: “Voter Shaming”

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/10/29/new_democrat_tactic_voter_shaming

“...they’ve got Democrat Party election officials sending them letters telling them they’re being watched and telling them that they know whether these people have voted or not and that they will know whether they vote this time or not and that their neighbors will know whether they’ve voted or not, and they will know whether the neighbors know. So I’m not sure how this is gonna play out. But once again, it’s another sign of desperation on the Democrat Party side about the election and vote turnout and all of these things that are tied into it.”

From the Wall Street Journal:Democrats “Shame” Voters With Mailers

http://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-shame-voters-with-mailers-1414803485

“Democratic Party postcards and letters sent to more than 800,000 New Yorkers this week gave them grades based on how often they had voted and told them their voting records in 2014 would be watched. “

From a Slate article on the MoveOn.org tactic: The “Voter Report Card” MoveOn Hopes Will Shame Slackers

http://www.slate.com/blogs/victory_lab/2012/10/31/moveon_can_its_voter_report_card_shame_slackers_into_turning_out.html

“MoveOn is mailing 12 million registrants in battleground states a ‘Voter Report Card’ scoring their participation in their past five elections and comparing it to the neighborhood average...”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3390648/posts


778 posted on 01/30/2016 8:26:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is the wrecking ball destroying GOPe, FAUX & their bs mediot conspirators & beltway pundits!)
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To: Grampa Dave
GP Dave, there is the answer then. It may have worked on leftists that only care about who won American Idol or that they are properly keeping up with some insipid fad.

Individuals that live their lives with method and purpose are simply angered with this sort of grade school exercise.

1,118 posted on 01/30/2016 5:23:13 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! Trump 2016!)
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