Let's Get Calling -- Getting Young Voters to the Polls in Georgia
Sarah wrote about efforts to mobilize young voters in the Georgia runoff yesterday, passing on a few tips from the Young Democrats of Georgia on how to get involved. One of these was phone banking with friends.
Fortunately, YDG has set up "Let's Get Calling," an opportunity for Young Democrats from all over the country to contact young Georgia voters about the election. Details below:
YDG has made it easy. You can access our phone bank online, from the comfort of your own home, or coffee shop, or dorm room...you get the idea. All you need is
1. Access to the Internet
2. A phone
3. An RSVP for one of the phone banks belowThat's it, we'll take care of the rest. No long hours of dialing and
leaving messages, our system will let you spend your time actually
talking to voters. SO LET'S GET MOVING PEOPLE!Here's our call-times coming up. Sign-up for one of the times below by RSVPing, click on the link, and let's get the Youth Vote out for
Democrats on December 2nd.
- Sunday November 23rd, 1-3PM - RSVP by clicking Here
- Monday November 24th, 6-9pm - RSVP by Clicking Here
- Tuesday November 25th, 6-9pm - RSVP by Clicking Here
More Phone Banks after the Holiday are listed on our website at
www.georgiayds.org, click on "Events".
Make some calls and help Jim Martin!
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2008 Youth Vote in Context
The following charts and graphs are meant to contextualize the unique role that young voters played in the 2008 election, and their increasingly important role in a winning electoral coalition:
2008 Youth Electoral Map

2004 Youth Electoral Map

Youth Vote Partisan Advantage: 2000 - 2008

Youth Vote Historical Support: 1976 - 2008

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Thanks
Thanks for posting this Craig. I set up a small impromptu phonebank here at UC Berkeley today that was very successful. We made a few hundred contacts, which would probably be the equivalent to a few thousand calls had we not been using the Activate system.
That's awesome
Nice job!
What was the response you got?