During my first day of Phone Banking for Beto I learned

[Vogon_Glory]

(A) My Spanish isn’t very good.

(B) I need a compact list of debits about Ted Cruz’s positions on bread-and-butter issues above and beyond the phone bank script.

(C) I interrupted a lot of people’s dinners.

[efhmc]

1. Precinct chair here but I don't do phone banking.

I will block walk but think phone banking is not effective. Did you find it so?

[murielm99]

2. I think it can be.

Some people need to be reminded many times to go to the polls. They need to be made aware of alternatives like early voting.

I have had people go to the polls at the last minute because I called. Also, a friend of mine lost a school board election by one vote because people were too lazy to vote. I distributed literature for her and went to information meetings. I wish I had phone banked. Maybe I could have found two voters.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I really dont know

As I see it, I’m just one of the grunts.

Having said that, being on the receiving end of phone hankering as well as being one, I can get quite irritated.

[yellowdogintexas]

4. My VAN is full of dead phone numbers. Block walking

seems to be my best option for cleaning up this mess. I know my neighborhood has had a lot of new families move in, and older adults move out.

My area is not too large, distance wise. With a few other walkers I can make a dent.

Good news is that all of my "Hard Dems" had voted early so I did not need to call them the weekend between early voting and election day.

[LeftInTX]

5. Was this after the primary?