going to once again suggest that if you are a political junkie you should get off of social media and find the opportunity to talk to a voter from outside of your immediate social circle
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My anecdata of talking to folks in daily life (dental hygienists, Office Depot cashiers, deli counter employees, etc.) is that EVERY young woman is voting this year.
I don't remember this from previous election cycles...
GOTV canvassing & phonebanking is much more fun, because you are calling people known to support the candidate or likely to support the candidate. Persuasion is mostly over at this point.
I spoke to a friend who is voting for Trump and it was just depressing.
It was like he lived in this alternate reality and there was no reaching him since frankly, even liberal corporate media says things that avoid contradicting the views of people like him.
This is my only social media outlet and it's my lil indulgence...talking to people who have VERY different outlooks on the election and just ideological perspective overall is really easy when you live in a red state 😀
Solid advice, but I tend to just get mad and yell, “are you out of your effing mind” or similar at them. I am not the best GOTV person. Unless writing postcards counts. Can’t yell there.
I was driving around rural VA yesterday/shenandoah and expected to be all Trump/Vance signs but there was a sh-t ton of Harris-Walz stuff up - it was encouraging.
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An old man with a comb over sits in a fake black barbershop rambling that the entire Dept of Education just needs to be one person and a secretary to teach English, English, English bc kids are receiving trans surgery @ school. I long for the day 100% of ppl just laugh at the pure ridiculousness!
Yes! The big thing about social media is when you click like, you feel as if you've accomplished something about the election. You have not. Get out and talk with others, as he says, who are outside your immediate social circle.
It surprises me the most the most when someone says they’re undecided (if they’re telling the truth). Not sure how someone was alive for that last few decades & an adult during his presidency & not have a strong stance for or against Trump.
I'm sure that would be enlightening at first but with the average voter's knowledge and susceptibility to easily disproven propaganda it would quickly drive you mad.
Once again ran a phonebank for https://annarthomas.com, and we found a LOT of strong supporters, straight Dem ticket voters who had already returned their ballots. We found others who needed some help with ballots, and others who weren’t yet decided. PLEASE DO THIS. See following skeet.
Honestly, how do they think this when Biden had to bring NATO back, trump killed the Iran deal, and trump kisses up to dictators and our allies don’t trust him with intel. When I travel people confide they can’t believe he’s even on the ballot with felonies or post Jan 6 much less taken seriously.
Trump killed the Iran deal and Biden did nothing to revive it. Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, Biden kept it there. Trump turned China into a bogeyman. Biden’s whole foreign policy centers around antagonism with China.
I don't get it, but people somehow think that the world respected us more with him in control which is laughable both in that they think people respect and in that they think he was controlling much of anything beyond his varying grifts.
It’s to make them obsessed with sex hyper sexualized while never actually having it, and damn sure not to pro create or to cherish their wife or husband God has blessed them with. School is indoctrination everyone agrees with this or is still under the spells.
Wrong. God loves you. I’m not reading something sent from someone committed to a lie. If God wanted me to talk to you, which he’s commanded me not too, he’d be working through you, / in reality you’d be letting him work on you. And you’d be based in love. Not fear. And projecting that others r afrad
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The way ppl dismiss how much voter suppression happens in the south (especially for black americans) bc we're "red states" and "why should we care about them". 😐
I really don’t think ppl purposely dismiss it. Most just don’t know, because they are turned off by politics. The noise on the right about southern or small town “values” is so loud. I fear even voters in those areas suppress themselves to a degree, but our vote is our prayer as Warnock says.
And I live in a red area of a blue state, but these people are loud and proud. They always think they can turn the state red. Obviously, their vote isn’t and has never been suppressed, so it’s not quite the same. But they really believe it is, yet they still vote and put giant flags on their trucks
Agree! Pics are from canvassing for 4 different candidates running in state house races in TN. The only way to win is to play the ground game! Knock on some doors and talk to voters!!!
thanks, I just took my shot and told my Michigan Arab friend that a vote for Jill Stein is a vote to Trump to let Netanyahu ethncially cleanse Gaza, phew that was tough
True but trump just stated he told Netanyahu to go forward and that when they talked yesterday, Netanyahu said he’s not listening to Biden. They want all Muslims wiped off the face of the earth. That’s their evil plan and Netanyahu is biding his time until Trump’s President and full support is there
Biden is already telling Netanyahu to go forward by continuously supplying and funding his weapons.
They are both genocidal warmongers, Kamala too. The only difference is Trump is a mad dog and Biden/Kamala are more calculated to appease liberals, but only so that the genocide can continue.
Not exactly. It’s complicated bc Israel is the only democracy is a sea of surrounding autocrats. Netanyahu wouldn’t be calling Trump if he had full support of Biden or Harris.
The act of actually VOTING was cathartic. Woman in front of me has been in the US 30 years and this is the first time she’s voted. She was SO excited. The actual election is all that matters, the rest is noise.
I have and it has been both encouraging and frustrating. More voters than expected aren’t going to vote for Donny. Either going for Harris or leaving the line blank. However they are going to vote republican rest of the way down ballot.
What do they say about the candidates they are voting for down ballot who have such a lack of integrity, they been enabling Donny’s lies for a decade as well as the terrible tariff and slew of regressive project 2025 ideas. None of it is conservative or small government! It’s overreach.
Being anti choice and taxes are more important to them than who’s trying to enact these policies. Doing my best to work on them, but since we’re in a very blue area some will say their vote doesn’t matter anyway.
I just got back from a trip to Seattle, where I ran into some people from North Carolina in the elevator. I mentioned I was originally from Georgia and the woman *rolled her eyes at me* and turned her face away. I have never in my life had that happen before.
Understandable, however I must remind you that among those voters might be someone named Dave, who couldnt even be first at the local rock eating contest
Volunteering by phone banking, texting, or canvassing is a great way to talk to voters, for anyone interested. It's wild when you come across a true undecided and then talk to them and they don't fit any of your preconceived ideas. Humbling and rewarding.
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I don't remember this from previous election cycles...
Still, agree. Haven't met a woman who is not voting.
Cheers!
It was like he lived in this alternate reality and there was no reaching him since frankly, even liberal corporate media says things that avoid contradicting the views of people like him.
I do this already, obviously, at work. but I want to know how this is important or helpful
#merica 🇺🇲
From my very limited experience:
Harris voters are very enthusiastic! ❤️
Trump voters repeat weird talking points (e.g., "Kamala is not African American")
#USPol
"I think I might vote for the lady..."
Learn to shoot hoops in phys ed., learn to shoot rope in sex ed.
They are both genocidal warmongers, Kamala too. The only difference is Trump is a mad dog and Biden/Kamala are more calculated to appease liberals, but only so that the genocide can continue.
Could it have been a sports ball? Sometimes these things turn out to be about that . . .
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