AFL-CIO Maps Out Final Voter Push For Obama, Democrats

[Coyotl]

AFL-CIO Maps Out Final Voter Push For Obama, Democrats
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/afl-cio-final-four-voters-obama_n_1987505.html


The nation's largest federation of labor unions says it plans to knock on more than 5 million doors, make 5 million phone calls and blanket battleground states with 12 million pieces of mail in the final four days leading up to the Nov. 6 election.

Billing the undertaking as the group's “final four” get-out-the-vote plan, the AFL-CIO will be pouring its resources into 25 states that hold key congressional races, with a concentration in presidential swing states like Ohio and Nevada.

“It’s a culmination in that we have steadfastly tried to make the case to working people that this election is about their economic future, that there are two very different paths that the two parties want to take them down,” Michael Podhorzer, the AFL-CIO’s political director, said on a call with reporters Friday. “If we continue to bring these points home to people, we’ll see unprecedented turnout.”

In the run up to the election, the AFL-CIO has registered more than 450,000 new voters and gotten 200,000 voters to cast their ballots early. ..............

[WCGreen]

1. Back when I was the Treasurer of the Democratic Party here in Cleveland

I was able to see first hand how intense the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and the Teamsters took their GOTV and voter identifications. Especially SEIU which had mobil homes outfitted with call centers that took the call centers to places where the people were.

[Coyotl]

3. This is why the wingnuts want to bust unions, politically effective organizations n/t

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