And if the value's in the externalities, we shouldn't be surprised that the pros currently running ground games aren't structuring them to get those righthttps://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1228386418864664579 …
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[So here's where I use an off-the-cuff tweet from someone who's forgotten more about this than I'll ever know, to say "Well actually" in the most tendentious possible way. I guess I'm really a twitter native now??] David Shor replies:https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1230543402594426880 …
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Wow ok eek no! Obviously David Shor knows many things so this is not me lecturing him: This is me pointing out the gap between past presumptions about how far political engagement might go: and the lived reality of tens of thousands of women (& some men) since November 2016
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It is possible that *within a given organizational landscape*, your best best may be to share thoughts with friends or via social media: esp. if the envisioned alternative is serving as interchangeable door-knocking cannon-fodder within a campaign-run “ground game.” BUT:
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You can remake the organizational landscape.https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1109458973336440832 …
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Lara Putnam @lara_putnamThe local social/organizational terrain is critical to political outcomes. But its pace of change is rarely visible to the naked eye. People paid to win campaigns are paid to treat the terrain as a given & put up the best numbers they can. But the rest of us are sticking around.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
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Lara Putnam @lara_putnamIt's the same point I tried to capture here: The local social & organizational terrain is critical to how candidates reach voters & how voters perceive campaigns. Sometimes the pace of change of that terrain is so slow you can treat it as a constant & ignore. But not now! pic.twitter.com/BRky3h5yL5Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
I just got my weekly email from a local grassroots group: one of thousands nationally that formed in the wake of the the 1st women's march & isn't on Twitter. That is: one of the thousands that Wise Pundits are ignoring when they chinstroke, "Where has your 'Resistance' gone?"
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Local events for the upcoming 4 weeks were listed. They included: 9 events org'd by 4 different post-16 grassroots groups; 8 meetings of local Democratic Cttees that have been rebuilt from dormancy or are under new leadership bc of new precinct-people who entered fr grassroots;
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... 5 meetings led by office-holders elected since 2017 by grassroots groups who recruited, fundraised, & door-knocked to flip downballot Republican seats. 4 meetings in support of new state house candidates recruited & running in 2020 due to grassroot support
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And 8 mtgs of local civic action groups that pre-date the post-2016 center-to-left grassroots surge, but that are now able to reach out to broader networks of allies & recruits bc of the human/informational infrastructure the new grassroots have built. All of this in a 4 wk span!
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Thank you for this thread. I would love to hear your thoughts about how to do field work that is effective. There are places where the Indivisible-style groups held on, but others where they really did rust away. I do not want to repeat mistakes, but need fresh ideas.
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