(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Grassroots Canvassing in Pennsylvania & Georgia. Because Hope Springs... [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-12 Rising Costs was the most frequent response to our question about voter’s top concern on Saturday in Pennsylvania. The war in Israel was the second most frequent response this week. Concern over Political Stability was third. Biden Approval among the Pennsylvanians we talked to was 52% last Saturday while 6% expressed some measure of Disapproval. 65% of the voters who responded Approved of the job Sen. Casey was doing while 6% expressed Disapproval. 52% of the voters we talked to thought Gov. Shapiro was doing a good job, 9% said they Disapproved. Remember that each week, we are hitting doors in different neighborhoods, which can account for sharp deviations in results (although looking at the graphic, there doesn’t seem to be much variation here!). There is no effort to make these responses statistically significant. This is just raw data. It is not a poll. You may have heard about the recent Emerson College poll that said Trump led Biden 45 percent to 36 percent among Pennsylvania voters. That poll had a universe of 430 Pennsylvania voters before the weekend. 807 voters, although Democrats and independents (no Republicans) answered our Issues Survey question about the president. Volunteers registered 6 new voters in Pennsylvania and re-registered 29 voters in compliance with Federal (HAVA) law. We differentiate between the two because brand new voters are often ignored by campaigns and we hope to compensate for that somewhat by having volunteers send them post cards before the election and they are also getting robocalls thanking them for registering. But we are finding lots of teens who just turned legal age whose parents (primarily mothers) are insisting they register. 52 voters filled out Constituent Service Request forms. We send completed CSRs to Democratic elected officials responsible for the requested functions, but if there are no Democrats who can further the request, and the appropriate office is held by a Republican, we still send it along. For Democrats, though, we encourage them to reach out immediately to the voter who filled out the Constituent Service Request forms and let them know they are working on the issue. This credit-taking is enormously valuable to the Democratic office-holder. 3 voters filled out an Incident Report about issues they witnessed in a prior election, 2 of whom we requested inside the city of Philadelphia. We have been building a database of Incident Reports, and reports we collected in Pennsylvania previously have been used to request an extension of time before a precinct closed. This week, we are focused on GOTV in Ohio to enact constitutional protections for women (Issue 1). Hope Springs from Field PAC has been knocking on doors in swing states since March in a grassroots effort to prepare the 2024 Electoral Battleground in what has been called the First and Second Rounds of a traditional Five Round Canvass. We are canvassing Democrats and unaffiliated voters with a systematic approach that reminds them not only do Democrats care, but Democrats are determined to deliver the best government possible to all Americans. Obviously, we rely on grassroots support, so if you support field/grassroots organizing, voter registration (and follow-up), GOTV and our efforts to protect our voters, we would certainly appreciate your support: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hope4ohio Hope Springs from Field understands that volunteer to voter personal interactions are critical. Knocking on doors has repeatedly been found to be the most successful tactic to get voters to cast a ballot and that is the goal of what we do. 427 volunteers came out to knock on doors in Georgia last Saturday. We continue to knock on doors of voters in the Black Belt in Georgia and the suburbs of Atlanta, and we now have more volunteers in the Atlanta area than we have out knocking on doors in southern Georgia. They knocked on 31,896 doors and talked to 2,558 voters. 1,629 voters answered at least some of our questions on the survey this week. The Top Issue volunteers found in Georgia on Saturday was Economic Uncertainty. We have been hearing, in the Atlanta region, concern about the economic impact of the expected Trump indictment coming out of Atlanta, specifically worried that Trump followers will try to shut down the city. The second most frequently cited concern in Georgia this weekend was Political Stability. This is as much an issue in the Atlanta area as it is in the Black Belt. The third most frequently Issue this week was Public Safety. Biden’s Approval numbers among the voters we talked to was at 53% last Saturday, with a Disapproval number of 7%. In comparison, Approval of Governor Kemp was 39% and Disapproval was 26% last Saturday. Kemp has the greatest variation in his approval numbers that i’ve seen since we started canvassing in the state. There is no senate race in Georgia this cycle (and a number of Georgia voters have told us “Thank God” there isn’t because they are exhausted!) and while we ask if voters approve of the job their senators are doing, we are not tracking that. Volunteers registered 8 new voters and re-registered 27 voters. 58 voters filled out Constituent Service Request forms. In general, we send these to Democratic elected officials responsible for the requested functions, but if the appropriate office is held by a Republican, we still send it along. For Democrats, though, we encourage them to reach out immediately to the voter who filled out the CSR and let them know they are working on the issue. This credit-taking is enormously valuable to the Democratic office-holder. 3 voters in Georgia completed an Incident Report as well. A couple other voters expressed concerns about the 2024 elections but did not fill out incident reports because they didn’t say they witnessed voter suppression or intimidation (they just expressed concerns or worries about them). Incident Reports are used to plan Election Protection activities, and will be combined and handed over to District and State Attorneys, Attorney Generals and the DoJ Civil Rights Division right before Election Day. We continue to find voters who say they need a photo voter id (which is surprising since that was required to vote in the 2022 elections) — even in the Atlanta suburbs — and are already working Voter ID Days with Registrars offices and our partner Black Churches in both southern Georgia and the metro Atlanta area. We consider it a core mission to help voters in need obtain the required document to vote in November 2024. So far we have found 849 voters who need help get obtaining one before the next election. This effort arises out of the group texts among Albany State organizers who had worked with me in the first Georgia Runoff (and who have now moved on from college to young, working adults who have not given up on helping those in need “where they came from”). We knock on the doors of Democratic and Independent voters. At every door, we leave a piece of “show the flag” lit, something that tells them we were there and hopefully reinforces the Democratic brand. The lit focuses on the things voters told us were important to them last fall, aiming to appeal to every voter. But the main focus of our canvassing right now is the Issues Survey, asking voters for their input and concerns. Voter responses to the questionnaire are entered into VAN and made available to all Democratic candidates who use VAN in the state after the primary. Creating this kind of data isn’t done with a specific goal in mind but has the purpose of engaging voters and creating a dataset that any Democratic candidate can use in opposition to a Republican. Hope Springs has targeted states that have competitive Senate races and/or the Electoral College in 2024, as well as Congressional Districts that are remapped in ways that offer opportunities or vulnerabilities for Democrats next year (specifically those where a Republican won a Congressional District that voted for Biden in 2022). There is a lot of work to be done! Especially since we have had to expand the map this year. By starting early, and aiming towards super-compliance with these really, really onerous provisions, Hope Springs from Field seeks to undermine that strategy, while informing voters about the new laws and regulations aimed at them. 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