Ohio 12 - just heard back from Text the Vote

[NewJeffCT]

They had so many volunteers signing up to help that they went through their entire database by 10am this morning and have sent over 140,000 texts on behalf of O'Connor. In a seat the republicans have won by over 35 points each of the last two elections, this has to be a very good sign.

From the email I received:

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for volunteering to send texts to get out the vote for Danny O'Connor.

We had an unprecedented number of volunteers sending texts starting at 8:00am this morning and as of 9:55am have officially completed our entire list of voters to text!

I apologize if you were unable to send texts today or over the weekend — there were thousands of volunteers interested in texting for this race, but only so many voters for us to text.

Rest assured you will get a chance to text when we are texting for dozens of candidates in the midterms. We will also have worked out most of the bugs by then, so our texting operation will flow much more smoothly.

So what's next? We'll keep you updated on the election results as they come in. Win or lose we should all feel incredibly good about what we accomplished. We sent over 140,000 texts sent in just 5 days for Danny O'Connor!

[sheshe2]

1. Excellent.

[Ninga]

2. Thanks so much for the update! This is why I love DU! I live in Cuyahoga City near Clevelamd

and just spoke 2 days ago I Spoke to two people who were thinking about voting Green today.
I Carefully laid out my case that voting Green today will not help the people who need health care and jobs. I respected their choice and refrained from telling them they were nuts...which was very difficult for me....but in the end my quiet careful suggestions took root and they both pledged to vote O'Conner and at now worried about Kavanaugh. Whew!,

[NewJeffCT]

5. great work

just a few votes can make a difference.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[Hortensis]

8. Lol and phew! Sounds like a good job, including

leaving them with some new awareness of what they have to fear.

[winstars]

9. So if Danny wins by 2 votes tonight, everyone here at DU owes you a beer!!!!

[xxqqqzme]

13. Good work.

Democrats need hundreds more like you.

[deurbano]

15. I admire your patience! Thank you!

How ANY voter (who hasn't been in a coma for the past year and a half) could even consider tossing away such a precious vote is so... nuts (as you said, even if not to them)... and really, well BEYOND nuts. I mean, if they were previously under the delusion that voting for a Democrat is the same as voting for a Republican, that myth has been dramatically dispelled multiple times a day every day since that thing took office. Meanwhile, his sycophants in the congressional majority have completely abandoned oversight in their zeal to overturn all the progress that had seemed so firmly established. How much clearer could it be?!!

Again, thank you!

[Ninga]

23. I agree. However it's incredible how truly UNINFORMED people are, and yet they think

they know it all.

[TeamPooka]

27. did you miss the photo of the two Trumphumpers with the Better Russian than Democrat t shirts?

thats who we are up against here: US citizens who will sell out their country, values, and history to win elections and hold power.

[Stallion]

3. And After you Text--Don't Forget to Vote

Crazy Kids and their tweets and texts

[NewJeffCT]

7. I'm in Connecticut

but I think kids in high school are using Snapchat, Tumblr and Instagram nowadays more than Twitter and Facebook.

[dalton99a]

11. Young people avoid Facebook like the plague

[SunSeeker]

20. Yup. The only reason my son has a facebook account was to get "coins" in an online game.

He never uses it. It's "Mombook" to him.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[Hortensis]

10. Terrific view into that happening. Thanks, Jeff.

[iluvtennis]

12. Nice. Donated to O'Connor earlier. Fingers cross we Dems can take this one.

[33taw]

14. This is great. But isn't there an automated service that can perform this task?

Queue up the numbers and simply schedule a mass text at 7:00 AM and another later in the day? The volunteers could be helping with personal calls or other tasks?

[DoctorJoJo]

16. I Sent Danny Cash--Now I Will Sit Here 30 Miles Away With Fingers Crossed!

[radical noodle]

17. THIS is the way to GOTV

Lots of volunteers motivated to get things done.

[H2O Man]

18. Recommended.

[SunSeeker]

19. Hell yeah!

[zeusdogmom]

21. I must be on more than one list 😄

Several texts today - and in previous days. Plus phone messages.

Almost overkill. Such a fine line between encouraging people to vote and annoying them.

And to make myself perfectly clear - I am not annoyed - I just delete the messages after reading to keep my system from getting filled. I, too, am pleased about the enthusiasm.

I will be voting for Danny O'Connor later today. I always vote. Always.

So hoping O12 turns blue tonight.

[eleny]

22. Thom Hartmann read the first part of your posting on his radio show today

He interrupted the topic of the day to share this great report.

Rec'd.

[NewJeffCT]

24. Thanks for letting me know

I wonder how many actual voters got texted out of the 140,000 texts? 14,000? 28,000? 7,000?

However, if this is close, every single vote will count

[eleny]

25. Even 7000 in a single district is a lot of contacts

[beachbum bob]

26. 2016 election GOP candidate got 251,000 and democrat got 112,000 so this

Is a largely red district...the may primary, there were only 43,000 democratic votes cast and 67,000 republican votes. This is a monumental uphill battle to even have this election to be within 10%....you never know as the dislike of trump is evident in Ohio now too

[NewJeffCT]

28. However

the incumbent that got that many votes in 2016 has retired.

Polling has it a dead heat.

national Republicans are already criticizing their candidate for being unlikable and for not running a good campaign. Sounds like their internal polling agrees (or is worse) than the public polling if they're making excuses for him. There were similar comments from GOP leaders leading up to election day with Conor Lamb earlier this year as well.

[beachbum bob]

29. We can only hope we see the trump effect and the dislike of tariffs

There are lots of manufacturers in this area and steel tariffs aren't helping

[beachbum bob]

30. Also the university is not in session, so no youth vote like it

Could be in November.

[John Fante]

31. Way to keep that positive energy flowing.

[beachbum bob]

32. Got to keep it real and why happens now will be way different in November

For the obvious reason of having 10s of thousands of college back and able to vote. ....