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Jane Woodside's avatar

Loved the sign idea! Might use it. I read the Ezra Klein interview since you sent it to me (yes it took a while) and that would not have been my takeaway at all. It suggests some additions to our approach but not subtractions and more differential approaches which address targeted populations county by county. It also focussed on demographic shifts without taking into account situational shifts like the war in Gaza. The GOP targeted ads to districts with significant Muslim populations describing Kamala as pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian to districts with significant Jewish populations. Dishonest? Of course but also effective. We still need honest people like you talking to people who care about such things but we may also need a propaganda team to level the playing field.

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Jessica Weingarten's avatar

Thanks for reading the article. I got hung up on "the working class". I have 1,000 words on trying to parse an accurate definition because we cannot get those voters back if we cannot define who they are.

I have other data (a lot from Tom Bonier) looking at race, age and income levels. I've also fed into my understand the messaging proposals from both sides of the party.

Altogether, it's really a hard slog.

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Jane Woodside's avatar

I did use the sign! We had about 200 people with freeway visibility in front of Tesla dealership with constant 👍honking. It was a short notice thing focussed on veterans benefits so the crowd skewed older. I have a sense the world is never going to be the same. It’s getting meaner and angrier. Not in my corner of the world but we were raised with different ideals.

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Jessica Weingarten's avatar

YAY!!! Thanks for being out there yesterday -- think about it -- you and I -- across the country -- standing in solidarity with the same sign!

We had a lot of people who honked and the passenger held up fingers in the peace sign. Or who smiled and honked and showed appreciation. We also had a swasticar-truck thing come past us slowly, filming us. There were also members of the right wing press looking to find people who would agree that escalation to violence was good -- but they had no takers.

Every week -- same location -- more and more people!

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Abbe Seldin's avatar

Got my real ID last year. What a pain in the arse!

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Jessica Weingarten's avatar

I really had a lot of fun. But I'm weird -- put me on a line with strangers, and I talk to EVERYBODY -- find out where they're from, what they're up to -- on grocery lines, I ask about products in people's carts I've never seen before and if they're any good. If someone is wearing something I like, I ask where she got it so I can get one too. The other day, I shared make-up tips with an 89-year-old woman. It's ALWAYS FUN to be out amoungst the people!

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Richard Weingarten's avatar

Well, aren't we all "going to the dogs" (to coin a phrase)? At least the dogs in Idyllwild were cute.

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Jessica Weingarten's avatar

ALL dogs are cute. And wonderful, loyal, honest, spectacular AND WE DON'T DESERVE THEM!!!!

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Tina Stein's avatar

This does not take into consideration the fact that this election was stolen (yes, there is definite data there) and the fact that they have Fox News. This is how they won and took over our country.

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Jessica Weingarten's avatar

Tina, I love you. And I owe you my life because you got me the oncologist who saved it.

BUT

Other people have told me the election was stolen, and they've sent me bits of data, which I have investigated, and I have been unable to find actual proof. Every once in a while, there's a precinct with data indicating cheating JUST at that precinct (generally several hundred people in a precinct or ward) - but when looking up at the county data, there were no such anomalies.

If you have actual data, I'd love to see it.

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