Insiders are raising some tough questions about the strategic decisions made by Future Forward, the biggest Super PAC pulling for Kamala Harris.
  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    2 months ago

    I propose to give this article the zero amount of attention it deserves, and instead, to spend the comments talking about how to help get people out to vote.

    I signed up yesterday with votefwd.org, and I’m planning on spending some time on it, as soon as they verify my signup. I’ve already turned in my ballot, but there’s still time to motivate some other people, and influence the outcome that way.

    Edit: Somebody reported my comment. “Spam or abuse.” I think that means I’m doing something right. I downloaded my first packet of 5 letters to send out, but I don’t think this is the most efficient way to have the impact I’m trying to have.

    I’m going to send them out, but it feels like grabbing the voter registration data for registered Democrats in swing states, and randomly sending out hand-signed but machine-printed letters that I’ve crafted, is going to be a lot more efficient. That, I can do by the hundreds. I don’t really know what I’m doing. Is there some other good way to do what I’m trying to do?

  • Spitzspot@lemmings.world
    35·
    2 months ago

    “Various organisations in Nazi Germany required their members to swear oaths to Adolf Hitler by name, rather than to the German state”

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    410·
    2 months ago

    Last month, several Democratic groups circulated a memo warning that Trump is peeling off support among those constituencies. The memo concluded that underinvestments in digital communications with those groups was a major problem.

    But it turns out that a good deal of this angst was directed at Future Forward in particular. Democrats familiar with internal party communications say that the PAC—which is widely viewed as a conduit for powerful White House adviser Anita Dunn to exercise influence over party messaging and resources—is operating from too traditional a mindset. The PAC, they say, favors ads on broadcast television aimed at broad audiences—when reaching young and nonwhite voters requires a more targeted digital approach because their media sources have grown so fractured.

    Switching to Harris really starting to feel like throwing a new coat of paint on a car with a rusted out frame