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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 06:55 PM Jan 2021

Just a thought---senators are used to getting comments by electronic media. Might we have more

impact if we sent thousands of hand-written postcards with a succinct "CONVICT TRUMP!" message?

---No envelopes to open or be concerned about contents

---standardized language shows organization

---hand-written shows sincerity and commitment.

Thoughts?

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Just a thought---senators are used to getting comments by electronic media. Might we have more (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2021 OP
i still have about 100 RESIST post cards samnsara Jan 2021 #1
I would think that standardized language would make the responses have less impact royable Jan 2021 #2
Personalized messages are best. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #3
I asked for thoughts and that was a good one. Thanks. nt Atticus Jan 2021 #4
You're most welcome, Mr. 10K. (Congrats!) n/t royable Jan 2021 #6
we got bdamomma Jan 2021 #5
The most effective would be people who live in those states JI7 Jan 2021 #7

royable

(1,264 posts)
2. I would think that standardized language would make the responses have less impact
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 07:01 PM
Jan 2021

than if responses were short and sweet (well, perhaps not sweet) but individualized. I do think the points of no envelope to open and hand-written are good.

I think I've heard in the past of politicians receiving identical preprinted postcards about some issue or other, and dismissing them as the work of some one group, rather than treating them as the voices of individuals.

Irish_Dem

(47,030 posts)
3. Personalized messages are best.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 07:17 PM
Jan 2021

This is the word from the get out the GA vote volunteer group I worked for.
We sent out brief personal messages to GA voters.

JI7

(89,249 posts)
7. The most effective would be people who live in those states
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 07:33 PM
Jan 2021

be the ones contacting their own senators.

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