re: #236 ipsos
Rant time:
I’m in upstate New York. Have only ever lived in two other states in my life, and neither one is Colorado or Ohio.
Yet every day for the last few weeks, I’ve received at least one text from either or both of those fine states from very earnest (presumably) young people encouraging me to get out and vote in either Colorado or Ohio, sometimes for specific candidates or ballot issues, always on our side, at least.
Around the same time, FB started to show me a crapton of ads from some PAC trying to swing Ohio right - lots of “Democrats are scary and will rape and murder your puppy” stuff.
I let the FB stuff ride because I’m very happy to let that PAC waste its money on misdirected ads that aren’t going to change my vote here in NY.
But I do worry that whatever voter outreach our side is trying to do by texts may not be as effective as it should be if I’m getting this many misdirected messages (and, incidentally, NONE that have anything to do with NY, which may just show, correctly, that their model knows that I show up at EVERY election anyway and don’t need their resources expended on me.)
I just hope whoever’s supposed to be getting those messages in Ohio and Colorado still somehow gets prodded to vote.
I’ve gotten a ton of emails from AZ, and during the primary season a lot from Colorado and Massachusetts (I don’t live in any of these states). I’m assume I’ve ended up on their email lists due to previous contributions to the DCCC or DSCC, but why these in particular I’m a little stumped. Maybe back in the day when I contributed to individual candidates whose names and states I’ve since forgotten.