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 ...
If this is what truly conservative politicians do, then i don’t want anything to do with them.
Like I told you earlier, this is creepy stalker stuff here.
If he did this, he’s done, and he deserves to be done.
I started out a fan of Cruz and Paul, both lost me. Paul lost me when he sold out to Mitch, Cruz when he voted for Obamatrade. Trump is the only one left and he almost lost me with his comments on same sex marriage. But immigration is just to important, so warts and all I am sticking with Trump.
Early on with Ted on several occasions he quoted Reagan. I recognized one quote and remembered the context from when I first heard it from Reagan himself. Reagan was speaking on a different topic and making a different point than how Cruz framed it. No one in the media pointed out this “mistake”. Cruz is very slick, which doesn’t mean he’s not a good guy or a good candidate.
It’s . Just . Terrible.
Are you posting to Huffpo cause those are pretty all the words Huffpo posters have to use when describing your next president.
Go back to calc. Walker did better than him. That’s where my disillusionment started.
These types of mailers are nothing new. I think I’ve received similar “voter alerts” before. It’s not worth giving a cheap campaign advertisement so much scrutiny, unless you’re a Trumpkin desperate to smear the biggest threat to your campaign with phony outrage. Since when did these tough-talking Trump fans suddenly become such fragile flowers with such delicate sensibilities? LOL
How do Zombies rise from the dead? Do they eat Democrat brains?
This is the electoral equivalent of standing in your paisley pajamas on the women’s side of the dorm.
It's clear that nothing will shake your confidence in your man. I wish you well.
Overreact? I don’t live in Iowa but just the knowledge that Cruz is sending out these letters makes me think ill of him.
Ironic that last night’s conversation with my wife was over whether we should support Trump or Cruz, with me thinking Cruz had better policies but Trump had better campaign tactics.
I liked Cruz, too. I still don’t trust Trump and now I can’t TrusTed - I am not going to be IntimidaTed. If Cruz knew about it and approved it, it reveals bad character and judgment. If he did not know, then he is incompetent. Bad any way you look at it.
Yes, he has. And he's going to win that way.
It’s like getting a note from a stalker. Cruz is stalking Iowa voters. Creepy.
Check out post 351; Obama’s mailer in the style that they were supposedly “modeling.”
Talk about a swing and a miss...I just can’t believe that a human being somewhere looked at this and gave approval.
All I can say is pray. I know I’m gambling on convert.
Wilhelm, respectfully, please give Trump a second look. We’d love to have you on Team Trump.
I caught that too!
Heh. And she had my email “written down as the best way to get hold of me” isn’t that sweet?
I wonder how many people were sent that mailer that set off all the fireworks.
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