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The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.The text reads:“You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors’ are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday’s caucusesâ€.
Funny nobody is talking about this in the news. Of course, FOX has been busy shilling for Marco all day. Do you suppose FOX News VP is hoping his daughter gets be Rubio's spokeswoman if Cruz's shaming mailer backfires?These people disgust me.
Academic researchers have studied and proven that voter-shaming mailers do lead to increased turnout.In a paper published in 2008, researchers from Yale University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that they had sent letters to voters with a variety of messages -- voting is public record, your neighbors will know if you don't vote, etc. -- and what they found is that among people who received the mailers "substantially higher turnout was observed.""These findings demonstrate the profound importance of social pressure as an inducement to political participation," the researchers wrote. In other words, nobody wants to be embarrassed in front of their neighbors.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/voter-shaming-alaska-north-carolina-florida
It was front page news this morning via Fox -- Cruz stated that he would not apologize for trying to get people out to vote. The anti-Cruz phenomenon is in full swing - very disheartening, but I expected as much.
It's been all over Drudge. If you got off your knees and took a break from your Trump "support" you'd see its been all over the media.
Do you ever get tired of screaming in your own personal echo chamber?
Maybe today. Wasn't when I posted that I saw.
My echo chamber is anything but personal, outside of those at the Cave in full-throated support of Cruz.
I do believe the primary results in all the states will make me a hell of a lot happier than they will you.