Ongoing GOTV in Ohio: Mobilizing Suburban Opponents to Issue 1

[RandySF]

Saturday was our fourth week of knocking on doors in Ohio with a supplemental Issues Canvass designed for GOTV (Get-Out-the-Vote) for the upcoming special election on Issue 1. We changed things up a little (some of our Obama alum organizers call it ‘going old skool’), so that “super volunteers” are now taking their walk sheets home and calling the homes they had knocked on Saturday. Those that answer are asked the supplemental questions from our Issues Canvass (see below) about their position to Issue 1.

Out of the 739 volunteers who had knocked on doors in Ohio on July 22nd, 388 of them took their walk sheets home. This represented 29,254 homes, for which we had 18,723 valid phone numbers. Volunteers did find invalid (primarily disconnected) numbers, but we didn’t track that. Out of the 18,723 numbers, super volunteers talked to 4,294 voters, of whom 2,638 said they opposed Issue 1 (and who hadn’t voted yet) and more than half of them already had a plan on when they would be voting against the constitutional amendment. These voters have been folded into our existing (through last Friday) GOTV universe of 9,277.

We exclude those voters who told us (and we verified) that they had already voted in the special election. As of last Friday, our voter universe had been reduced by 6,882 since those voters have already voted as of last Thursday.

Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers have been knocking on doors in 3 Congressional Districts (OH-01 represented by Democrat Greg Landsman (the grey CD on the lower left), OH-09, Marcy Kaptur (the peach CD on the top left) and OH-13, Emilia Sykes (the grey CD on the top right)) as well as the suburbs of Columbus and Dayton. But the presence of Issue 1 has dramatically increased our efforts as we have added a GOTV component as well as a supplemental question to our Issues
Survey.




https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/31/2184307/-Ongoing-GOTV-in-Ohio-Mobilizing-Suburban-Opponents-to-Issue-1

[doc03]

1. Today I made a 30 mile drive in rural Ohio. Up until today I saw very few Vote YES on issue one

signs but over the weekend they have sprung up like weeds. I would say they probably outnumber the NO signs now.

[Norbert]

2. In my deep red area of the state there are several Vote Yes Signs up.

There are also several vote no signs up too. Thinking this is looking good.

[RandySF]

3. I don't Oh. well anymore.

But I remember small towns and rural countries used to overwhelm the metropolitan areas.