In the electoral home stretch, one question looms large for every party and candidate on the ballot: How do we get our voters to vote? Turnout is always critical, but in this highly peculiar cycle, it stands to play an even larger role than usual. For this episode, Rachel Bitecofer interviewed Progressive Turnout Project’s own …
Progressive Turnout Project touts voter contact numbers — As Florida begins early voting, Progressive Turnout Project is blasting out stats that it says will help Democrats turn the state blue on Election Day. PTP said it had completed 106,513 phone conversations, including 38,792 conversations about vote-by-mail, resulting in 40,087 commitments to vote from inconsistent voters. …
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In this episode, John Fugelsang chats with Progressive Turnout Project’s (PTP) Executive Director Alex Morgan about PTP’s efforts to turn out voters in battleground states across the country. Listen here.
A national progressive voter outreach campaign says it has secured commitments to vote from nearly 8,000 Alabamians who vote infrequently — enough, it claims, to potentially sway the Senate race in favor of Sen. Doug Jones, who won by just 21,000 votes in 2017. The Progressive Turnout Project targets people who don’t vote often, but …
This week marks four days of Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Senators from both major parties ask questions of the 48-year old Antonin Scalia protégé. Barrett has remained elusive of her positions on many critical issues including the Presidential election, abortion, …
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Polls that ask respondents about their interest in the election—often a predictor of turnout—show that Republicans are matching Democrats in intensity, but the stark divide between when and how the parties’ supporters plan to vote is creating uncertainty about turnout, and the outcome. “I am really curious to see what is the real Republican enthusiasm …
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Like NextGen, the Progressive Turnout Project, is looking beyond the traditional way of in-person canvassing to connect with voters in its efforts to elect Joe Biden for president. To work around COVID-19 restrictions, Progressive Turnout Project focuses on phone banking, where field representatives like Shari Griswold contact inconsistent voters – often young voters – in Arizona …
The postcards Chang and her friends have written are among 15.7 million organized through Postcards to Swing States, one of several new groups organizing get-out-the-vote efforts to boost Democratic turnout. “It’s just a testament to so many people deciding to prioritize participating in democracy in their life,” said Ramsey Ellis, who co-founded the group along …
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As the virus has shut the door — for now — on large-scale Democratic door-knocking operation, Marcos Descalzi, district director for the Progressive Turnout Project in Colorado springs says technology has opened other avenues for contact. “In a sense that’s allowed us to kind of expand past some of the prior limitations of canvassing, in …
