FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 2, 2018
Progressive Turnout Project Adds $50,000 Mail and Text Program in Ohio
Organization on pace to spend $250,000 ahead of Tuesday’s special election
COLUMBUS— Progressive Turnout Project is investing an additional $50,000 in targeted communication in Ohio’s 12th congressional district. The organization will send mail and text messages to inconsistent Democratic voters to ask them to commit to vote in Tuesday’s special election.
“Since the election of Donald Trump, Progressive Turnout Project has prioritized special elections because we know that Democrats need to play offense if we’re going to take back Congress,” said Executive Director Alex Morgan.
For the past two months, Progressive Turnout Project’s 15-person field team has been on the ground in Ohio’s 12th congressional district speaking with voters about the importance of casting their ballots in the upcoming special election.
To date, the organization’s Field Representatives have knocked on more than 50,000 doors across the district and received more than 3,000 commitments to vote. The latest poll shows Democrat Danny O’Connor trailing by a mere 1 percentage point.
“Our research shows that Progressive Turnout Project programs can boost turnout as much as 4 percent and we’re going to do everything we can to get Danny O’Connor first across the finish line on Tuesday,” said Morgan.
Tuesday’s special election will be the last special election before the November midterms. Democrats have outperformed in terms of turnout in nearly every special congressional election since 2016.
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Progressive Turnout Project is a grassroots-funded Political Action Committee with a single mission: get Democrats to the polls. PTP designs, tests, and executes specialized voter-turnout programs targeting inconsistent Democratic voters in the most competitive districts across the country. Since its inception in 2015, the organization raised more than $18 million with a supporter base of over 3 million and invested in voter-turnout programs in 73 congressional races and 17 state legislative races, including 10 Virginia House of Delegate races 2017.
