Brian Schatz isn’t overconfident and we shouldn’t be, either.
But he’s also not pretending he knows the outcome, because he doesn’t. Good or bad, no one knows.
No one knows the outcome. It’s not possible to know the outcome because the outcome will be partially determined by people who haven’t even voted yet. And by the people who don’t vote.
Our job is to get people out to vote – and not just the people who always vote – let’s try to get some folks who haven’t been paying attention.
Change your plans for today and do something to help.
Please think about volunteering somewhere today. Just do it.
I don’t know if we are going to win or lose and I’m nervous as hell like the rest of you but understand that tactically speaking they want you to be despondent and not volunteer. So, be nervous, but don’t be frozen. Find a campaign, and help. Thanks. https://t.co/Ip3tDtu8an
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) November 4, 2022
Every time someone predicts gloom, other people get discouraged. Maybe they don’t vote. Or maybe they don’t volunteer. Or maybe they pass on the gloom, and even more people get discouraged, become despondent. Those people don’t vote and they don’t volunteer.
Look at the ideas in the post from yesterday. Go to Pod Save America and pick up one of their opportunities. Just do something to make a difference, please.
We have just 3 more days. We only get one shot at this. Just do something to help.
NEVER STOP FIGHTING TILL THE FIGHTING IS DONE https://t.co/ZIU7bnHhWp
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) November 5, 2022
This is it. No Regrets.
Mousebumples
I’m hoping to do more texting tonight. Did some yesterday, but mostly waiting got responses to texts others had already sent.
I’m open to suggestions on who has good texting campaigns. I’ve tried to volunteer with the UU texting program someone suggested here, but no response with info yet.
My text banks have been with mobilize.us so far. With 2 little kids (and a broken ankle), I’m limited in what I can do to GOTV, but I’m doing what I can.
What are you doing to GOTV? What’s your mood music today?
https://youtu.be/HgzGwKwLmgM (obligatory Queen mood music)
WaterGirl
I am looking for a simple list of facts. What are the top things the Republicans plan to do whenever they get power?
I want to send the list to a few people in my extended family who mostly always vote the wrong way. If I send it to 10 and get even one vote for our side, that’s still one vote.
MomSense
Janet Mills in Maine could use some support – massive dark money hit our state and now they are running ads saying she is pushing pron in schools. I mean WTAF. She was a former prosecutor and Attorney General FFS.
oatler
I’d like to hear Chuck Todd interrupt his Sunday MTP spiel to say “instead of scheduled guest Madison Cawthorne, I wanna tell you these fascists are trying to finish the 1/6 coup this week and Both Sides need to vote!”
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Are you talking donations or GOTV for her?
Eunicecycle
@oatler: He’s really having Madison Cawthorne on? He didn’t even win his own primary. He’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel for guests!
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl:
@MomSense: If you or others have links to online GOTV efforts for candidates, I think this thread would be a great place to share them. Can’t guarantee I’ll be about to help (depending on when and what they’re needing), but hopefully someone (or multiple someones) can. 😊
Citizen Scientist
I’m working with Turn PA Blue this final weekend to chase down D absentee ballots. Last week, only had maybe 10 serious responders ( one who was clearly MAGA told me they were an illegal alien) out of 200 last week, but they all needed help. Feeling like that means we’re gonna do pretty good with mail-ins this year ; most have already filled out and turned in their ballots. Keep your heads up jackals!
JML
I appreciate the Untouchables reference from Schatz. “Here endeth the lesson.”
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
These aren’t hypotheticals. This is what they are trying to do and have said what they WILL DO.
HinTN
No regrets, @WaterGirl: but no pre-panicking either. They’ve told us what they’ll do. If they win, first we have to see what they won. That will inform our plans to achieve what we want (and’s thwart their evil). Take a deep breath. Act on your plans through election day. Look around at this big beautiful world and enjoy.
brendancalling
Im knocking doors today and tomorrow in Philly, as I do every weekend.
Omnes Omnibus
I will be out in the wind and the rain canvassing this afternoon.
BlueGuitarist
Useful late donation option (via the local races/super swing districts link)
NC down ballot candidate (southern Wake County) Christine Kelly is still raising money, specifically to fund youth turnout efforts thru texting and digital ads.
Democratic voters she brings to the polls can also vote for Democrats in overlapping swing districts:
NC-13, a toss-up open Republican seat; D=Wiley Nickel, one of the US House candidates MazeDancer mentioned a number of times.
and NC-Senate 17 a toss-up seat for state senate, D=Sydney Batch
And in the 3 big NC statewide races:
Cheri Beasley for US Senate
2 NC state supreme court seats, Democrats must win both to hold the majority:
Sam Ervin IV (yes, grandson of the Watergate Committee chair) and
Lucy Inman (49% last time)
So each additional Democratic voter the campaign brings to the polls is 6 more Democratic votes up & down the ballot, in 6 different elections all likely to be close.
you can also phone bank for her
https://www.mobilize.us/christinekellyfornchouse/event/522676/
and canvass (southern Wake County)
https://www.mobilize.us/christinekellyfornchouse/event/529730/
Make more likely voters!
oatler
@Eunicecycle:
I really don’t know, just assumed it’ll be some GOP glozer. NBC’s site really obscures information.
MomSense
@Mousebumples:
We are doing really well on the volunteer front. The issue is this last minute dark money ads that are timed to hit for the patriots game tomorrow. I think the campaign just really needs some quick money to run counter ads on social media tomorrow.
MomSense
Full disclosure, Janet is my second cousin and besides being a kickass governor in all the measureable ways – massive economic growth, almost 900 million in the rainy day runs, finally meeting the school funding mandates, universal free lunch in public schools, expanding access to abortion services, some of the most ambitious climate change goals and measures (she spoke at the UN as a model of leadership) expansion of broadband, free community college – she is also a fine human being. She is the person who will sleep on your couch and help you with kids and the house if you have a sick child so you can sleep or go to work or whatever. She is a music lover and poet. Honestly can’t say enough good things about her and it makes me so mad that they are trying to turn her into a villain.
citizen dave
Sam Ervin IV the former South Carolina Public Service Commissioner? All the best to him and ALL DEMOCRATS. LFG!
WaterGirl
I am going to put up a separate post for this, but in the meantime:
Donate
Eunicecycle
@oatler: oh, okay. See, I can’t even tell if it’s a joke! I did see Madison stick his head up on some issue the other day, so it wouldn’t surprise me!
New Deal democrat
Remember one of the Big Truths about chaos: every time there is a publicized observation about human behavior (like polling data), the humans observe back and change their behavior accordingly.
First Object Lesson: “Hillary has this 2016 election in the bag! Therefore I don’t have to vote/can vote for a protest candidate/can vote for Trump in protest/can have a press conference that we, the FBI, have reopened our investigation of her emails.”
Ignore the polls. Get out and vote.
rikyrah
There is no such thing as a good Republican. Even in Blue States, they are trying to sabotage.
In my state, as long as a Mail Ballot is POSTMARKED by Election Day, the ballot has 14 days to arrive into our office. Those ballots will be counted. It’s State Law. Been State Law for at least 15 years, if not longer.
Now, it’s being challenged by the Republicans.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Thank you! Just put $25 in – have been donating a lot and volunteering.
frosty
@rikyrah: In PA absentee and mail ballots have to be RECEIVED by 8:00 PM on Election Day. Drop offs are OK but only one site in the County, the Board of Elections. We have a Republican gerrymandered legislature. Bastards.
rikyrah
@frosty:
We just started Dropboxes during the pandemic. But, they are now legislated by law. We have them at every Early Voting Site (we have 53-54). Ballots picked up everyday from the EV site. If I did Mail Voting, I would take mine to the dropbox.
The USPS has gotten slack in the past few years. Used to be able to count on them with the date stamp. But, not now. So, if someone asks me, I always tell people to go INSIDE of the Post Office and watch them put the datestamp on your Mail Ballot.
RaflW
I’ve continued to textbank. Our merry group of UUs sent 25,000 texts to Houston, TX area infrequent voters in just two hours yesterday afternoon. The organizer was ALL CAPS over the moon at how fast we were.
Maybe because there’s 750,000 more texts to send? I didn’t see how many N.C. texts got sent by a different group of UUs, but I popped into their zoom for a bit and about 70 ppl were there getting trained, so I think they hit their 100,000 goal, so really there’s probably 600,000 to send as of right now? 200,000 per day will get us through the 800,000 final push by the end of texting time Monday.
Phew!
H.E.Wolf
The late great John Lee Hooker: “Boom Boom Boom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUyFrHERpU
C Stars
Hello, I’m filling out my ballot today and am wondering if anyone can point me to the post that ran a few weeks ago about recommendations for the CA ballot. Curious what BJers had to say. Is there a quick way to search for this post?
Ohio Mom
@C Stars: Does this link work: https://balloon-juice.com/2022/10/23/balloon-juice-voter-guide-for-ballot-initiatives-ca/
C Stars
@Ohio Mom: Yup, that’s the one! Thank you so much!! I have like a half-hour to vote between soccer game carpooling and taking my older one to the youth group overnight trip…arg!
TheTruffle
I’m going to do texting tomorrow. Signed up for today but didn’t get instructions in time. So tomorrow it is.
This after sending letters and postcards all over New York State and to several swing states. That’s what has kept me sane.
WaterGirl
@TheTruffle: Thank you for doing that!