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Still postcarding! (Original Post) Dulcinea Jun 2024 OP
I just got Delphinus Jun 2024 #1
Excellent! Dulcinea Jun 2024 #2
Thank you very much for doing this! benfranklin1776 Jun 2024 #3
I'm writing to Arizona! BadgerMom Jun 2024 #4
I just signed up! ShazzieB Jun 2024 #5
I've been wanting to do this, too NJCher Jun 2024 #6
Same here. Dulcinea Jun 2024 #10
Plus more effective NJCher Jun 2024 #11
Excellent leftieNanner Jun 2024 #7
post card and letter writing to swing state voters Cathy Bayer Jun 2024 #8
Thanks for the info, Cathy NJCher Jun 2024 #12
My husband and I are writing to Wisconsin. murielm99 Jun 2024 #9
I would like to do this, but Susan Calvin Jun 2024 #13
Hi Susan, try this: Dulcinea Jun 2024 #14
I just signed up! LNM Jun 2024 #15
Is this the same as The Progressive Turnout Project's Postcards To Swing States? HeartsCanHope Jul 2024 #16
Yes! Dulcinea Jul 2024 #17
Will definitely do that! HeartsCanHope Jul 2024 #18
My pleasure! Dulcinea Jul 2024 #19

benfranklin1776

(6,577 posts)
3. Thank you very much for doing this!
Sat Jun 22, 2024, 10:38 PM
Jun 2024

It’s a great way to make a critical difference in motivating turnout. ✊🏼 I do as many as I can myself in my spare moments outside of work.

NJCher

(37,838 posts)
11. Plus more effective
Sun Jun 23, 2024, 07:12 AM
Jun 2024

Did you know that people will read something handwritten where some 4-color glossy piece gets thrown in the trash.

Even if it’s a magazine or newspaper ad and the designer adds a handwritten element, it increases readership by 35%.

I learned this when I was an ad manager for places like McDonald’s, Chrysler, and General Mills.

I signed up for “wherever it’s needed the most.”

Cathy Bayer

(4 posts)
8. post card and letter writing to swing state voters
Sun Jun 23, 2024, 12:02 AM
Jun 2024

Hello,
I have been writing through an organization called Vote Forward and also Swing Left, we write to registered voters who are democratic leaning who don't always vote to encourage them to vote. For me it is very satisfying as I feel i am doing SOMETHING... I pay for stamps and envelopes and printer ink... it is better to me to do that then send money to some political campaign ... look into your hood and see what is available to you... I have written letters to reservations in Nevada, many swing states like the Carolinas, Nevada, etc... a local CA district that has a congress seat to swing, etc... it is very worthwhile and I am glad to have done it for some years now...

Susan Calvin

(2,094 posts)
13. I would like to do this, but
Sun Jun 23, 2024, 08:36 AM
Jun 2024

Handwriting for any length of time makes me twitchy. Can you tell me anything about the length of the messages, or if they would mind if you ran the postcards through a printer for the messages and then hand sign and hand address them? I would have asked them, but I couldn't find any way on the website to just ask a question. Thanks.

HeartsCanHope

(734 posts)
16. Is this the same as The Progressive Turnout Project's Postcards To Swing States?
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 01:26 AM
Jul 2024

First time posting in this forum. Thanks to all of you sending postcards and any other voter activism you may do. My son and I are wanting to send postcards. He found this link https://www.mobilize.us/ptp/?tag_ids=173. Neither of us would find it easy to canvas, or talk on the phone, so he did some research and came up with this. After the events of the last few days, and the totally crap SCOTUS decisions, I have to do something or go out of my mind. I want to support my son's choice if I can. So, if this is the same group or you, Dulcinea, or someone else here knows about the Progressive Turnout Project, could you give me some input? It seems this group's target group is Dems that haven't been exercising the voting right on a consistent basis. And Dulcinea, thank you for the 800 goal you set! You rock!

Dulcinea

(7,460 posts)
17. Yes!
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 03:28 AM
Jul 2024

This is The Progressive Turnout Project's Postcards To Swing States. I've been postcarding with them since 2020.

Hope you can help! Welcome aboard!

HeartsCanHope

(734 posts)
18. Will definitely do that!
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 05:40 AM
Jul 2024

Have to do something! Trump must be stopped! Thanks again for your reply, Dulcinea. I appreciate your help!

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