Reply #21: I understand your frustration [View All]

[Cheswick2.0]

but ACT did what they could. They could only be responsible for their part. If you read the article they did indeed turn out the democraic vote. They got new voters and infrequent voters to the polls. No matter what you think the problem was, ACT did it's job. Don't blame them for what the campaign and the party didn't get done. The fact is that Gore voters did switch because they did not understand what Kerry's message was.

They waited in line because the party didn't take electronic voting seriously and did not follow up on the voters righst act to make sure the polling places were covered with enough machines.

I don't know what you think the problems were on election day. I can tell you that in the office I worked in there was always a handful of volunteers who thought they knew what all the problems were and that they knew better than ACT employees what had to be done. It was amusing but annoying as hell too because most of the time they had no clue what they were talking about. They also had no idea of the job that was being done behind the scenes so that they could be handed a walk list on election day. Don't get me wrong, I was grateful to every person who showed up to help us. But there wasn't time enough in the day to educate a few of them about all the things they did not understand.

ACT is basically SEIU. SEIU is one of the most if not the most effective GOTV organization in the country. But amazingly enough people who never did GOTV in their life could pop into the office on the last few days and think they knew better. I would love to know what you think was done wrong on election day considering that we increased the turnout in a massive way over recent past elections.