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In reply to the discussion: This is, more or less, what we're up against: [View all]MineralMan
(146,288 posts)I talked to while doing precinct walking. If someone said they weren't really planning to vote, I'd try to convince them of how important it was to vote. If I got them to say they'd go to the polls, I marked them in my tally as a GOTV success. By election day, I had tallied 97. Now, not all of them probably did vote, but I have a high confidence level that most did.
Hanging around the polling place, I actually recognized some of those folks.
I can't say I talked to anyone who looked like that person in the toon, but I talked to an awful lot of people who needed to hear a reason to bother going to the polls.
Governor Dayton (DFL) won his election in a recount, by only a few hundred votes. I like to think my precinct walking played a role in his victory. We turned out almost 70% of registered voters in my precinct.