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A text or phone call, how do you make sure that turns into them actually going and voting. well, we provide them all the information about where their polling location is, how to vote. many young people don t know what a runoff is and if the rules change and we can see right now just from hearing that we don t know whether next saturday young people or people at all in georgia will be able to vote. we make sure they know exactly when and where to vote. we ask what their voting plan is, if they re going to take friends and family and we follow-up up with them until we know that they voted. brendan, how tough is it to get people to vote in a runoff. people need to get a turkey on the thanksgiving table. some of them are starting to do their holiday shopping. is this kind of old-fashioned gotv still the most effective way? you have to do it, absolutely. there s a lot of people in georgia who have been hammered with ads for months and months. and i don t think they ....
A state like mississippi which is 37, maybe 38% black, it only votes 30. if you got your staff from 30 to 38, that s a lot of votes. we don t lose that bed in mississippi, that big. not as many electoral votes, but we might be better off looking harder at mississippi and florida. i don t know that. i m just throwing a riff off the top of my head. but it s been very frustrating. from our previous consultants you had on, i ve been trying to tell some of these big fund-raisers, the massive gotv, massive voter registrations in the mississippi delta, louisiana delta. most of the black folks in my part of the world live close to probably 80% black, i grew up right on the river. i think consultants are making good points. we ve got to be realistic here. if we can just get a good share ....
To deliver some yard signs. if you can focus on that. all the things we re reading right now are depressing in the way that it reminds us of the polarization of american politics. i gotta say though, it s a pretty bright spot, jazz, that you have so many people in a midterm election that are saying, we re exciting to get out there, we re focused, we re paying attention and i wonder, it depends on how your modeling this electorate. what that potentially tells democrats about who it is, whose doors they need to be knocking on? that s exactly correct. it s exactly why this gotv is not like any gotv we ve been through before. that s because the voting electorate, the pool, is wider than it ever has been. we re gonna see a lot of polls in the next 15, 16 days, they re gonna say a lot of different things. they re gonna show tight races, but the only thing we need to know, are these midterm elections are the most important midterm elections in ....