[GPSCC-chat] winning an election

[Eric A. Meece]

She's good. But I wonder if it could all go up in smoke if Obama nominates 
John Kerry to be Secretary of State, and the Dems in Mass don't have a good 
candidate to replace him. Brown could go right back in.

Eric M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Doyle" <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
To: "gdis >> sosfbay discussion group" <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:58 AM
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] winning an election


> Elizabeth Warren was elected to the US Senaate.
> Here is how she did it (per a fundraising email):
>
>
> Let's be clear: we won our election because we stuck to our values,
> we talked about real issues, and we put our money where our mouth was --
> into the grassroots and our Get Out the Vote program.
>
> I couldn't be prouder of our effort. In the last four days before the 
> election,
> our grassroots volunteers knocked on more than 600,000 doors.
> On Election Day, more than 20,000 people volunteered and knocked on almost
> 400,000 doors. Those numbers are unlike any we've ever seen in 
> Massachusetts.
>
>
> For example, we knew we would have to buy a LOT of coffee and pizza
> all across the Commonwealth for our volunteers. After all, we've been 
> proud beyond
> words to have one of the scrappiest, toughest grassroots armies ever 
> assembled in
> Massachusetts or even the country -- and a grassroots army moves on coffee 
> and pizza.
>
> But even our high expectations were shattered. Thousands more volunteers 
> showed up --
> and that meant even more last-minute coffee and pizza.
>
> And more people called in asking for help to get to the polls.
> We were delighted, but it meant we needed to rent dozens more
> vans to drive every last one of them to their voting places.
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