PCOs, please pick up your literature!

This is a message out to all of our PCO's:

Here is how and where to pick up the Voters Guides for the General Election. They are at the home of Barbara Whitt and Burt Webb. The Guides are in boxes in front of their garage, and the lists and envelopes are in the house. Please call Barbara or Burt at 206-729-7410 for their address and to arrange a pick-up time.

If you need us to drop your stack off at your home, please let us know.

Our lists consist of the following:

Strong Democrats
Likely Democrats
Unknown
No Data

If you have enough to deliver to your entire list, please do.

The ballots go into the mail on October 15th. What we heard from some of our experienced PCOs at the September meeting is that it is most effective to go door to door, actually talking with people. It is less effective to just drop them on doorsteps. What this becomes is a timing issue. If you plan to talk with people, they're more likely able to remember that they have the voters guide because you will have engaged with them as you hand it to them. If we just drop it on their doorstep, it might get lost. So we're recommending that while door to door talking can be done at any time between now and November 2nd, drop-offs should be done as close to when the ballots hit mailboxes as possible.

Marked up lists should be returned to Brittany from the Coordinated Campaign when you are done. We always have hope that they will enter the data and make it part of the Votebuilder system. What I would like to see all of us focus on is the membership drive on the back cover, because that's where we get the bulk of our activist outreach. The more members we have going into the 2011 election year, the better!

See you out walking door to door!

Chad Lupkes
Chair, 46th District Democrats