To All Sanders Volunteers Who Worked Michigan

[Depaysement]

Mic drop.

[yesphan]

1. I know that a good number

of folks here in OK were phone banking for Bernie in Michigan and will now focus their attention to upcoming states.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Thank you, thank you very much.

Our group has been doing non-stop phone banking from here in California for weeks now. The campaign keeps telling us, phone bank, phone bank, phone bank and that's what everyone's been doing. We tell everyone, even if you have an extra 15 minutes, phone bank! And the new dialer makes it even easier than it was before. The Bernie campaign has made activism SO incredibly easy.

[CTyankee]

11. I do phone banking since I can't canvass physically any more but here's the thing:

I did it for our governor and found that lots of people don't answer their phone and some are relying on their cell phone only, no land line. Our land line is being bombarded by telemarketing robo calls daily and I thought we had banned them. They're sneaky. We never answer but they play "call from******"" and we can tell when they're bogus...

[Le Taz Hot]

12. The new auto dialer only connects us

if someone on the other end answers AND we're calling cell phones and landlines. Do we get people who hang up on us? Yes. But we're like the Energizer Bunny, we just keep going and going and going.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

15. Land lines.....

Oh my...
Leading up to the Michigan primary, I received at least one text on my cell a day from the Bernie campaign.

I answered, then group texted that text, not my answer, to my entire contact list.
My family, a rather large brood, did the same to thier contact list.

Word spread better than any land line.

It's a new day!

[Le Taz Hot]

39. We're doing texting too.

Seriously, we're using all the tools the campaign is giving us. And, FYI, we're not calling only land lines, we're calling mostly cell phone numbers.

And yeah, we're aware "it's a new day."

[Red Oak]

3. Thank you Michigan volunteers! and Michigan voters!!!

Great job!

[PonyUp]

4. Gracias!!

[Jarqui]

5. Me too

What an amazing, awesome, historical record setting performance by those people!!



Not too many folks over the years have been able to make Nate Silver look foolish. But a bunch of noname hearts in Michigan did just that.

Way to go!!

And of course, thank you very much!!

[daleanime]

6. Time to move on to Ohio....

and Illinois....

etc, etc....


Sincerely, thanks for the good work.

[KoKo]

7. Recommend! Great Job!

[disillusioned73]

8. Yes, yes, yes...

Thank you sooooooo much...

[tokenlib]

9. Damn right, to the campaign workers and volunteers hugs and high fives..!!

Now lets do it again!!

[marions ghost]

10. From us in the South

MICHIGAN

[potone]

13. Yes indeed.

I thank you and thank the Michigan voters who voted for Bernie!

[UglyGreed]

14. Thank you all

[fbc]

16. Thanks!

[SamKnause]

17. Thank you one and all from Ohio !!!!!!!!!!

Let's hope Ohio can do what Michigan did and bring Bernie to victory !!!

[kracer20]

18. Reddit seems to be quite organized.

They are always putting out PSA reminders regarding deadlines to register, what areas need attention and the best ways to spread info. This morning is a time for patting ourselves on the back regarding Michigan, but over there, they are already looking ahead to the next primary and trying to get their users fired up. Congrats to them, and I think they really are playing a major roll in supporting Sanders.

If you haven't been over there, stop by and check it out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident

[LiberalArkie]

25. Wasn't it Reddit that essentially drafted Bernie?

[kracer20]

27. No idea, I wasn't over there until well after Bernie was in the race.

[LiberalArkie]

29. I knew he was doing the AMA thing a long time before he announced.

Even sooner than I thought. Dec 2013


https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1t174t/i_am_senator_bernie_sanders_ivt_ama/

[Punkingal]

19. Absolutely because you are the BEST!

[JeaneRaye]

20. Absolutely!

Great job, you guys!

[bvf]

21. A million thanks! It wouldn't have happened without you!

[Enthusiast]

22. Thank you, Sanders Volunteers!

[sarge43]

23. So say we all

Thank you everyone. Hellva job.

[Oilwellian]

24. Bravo! Brava!

[mishi48.59]

26. Yes! Way to go volunteers

[Cassiopeia]

28. Indeed.

Passion is more valuable than money in mos campaigns.

[turbinetree]

30. You FOLKS, You Hard working Poor, Middle Class, all of You............................

You DID IT and you all deserve a big






THANK-YOU



FEEL the BERN

Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[angrychair]

31. I second that

Sanders volunteers should be extremely proud of themselves. All that hard work paid off. You rocked it. I am not worthy!!!

[AtomicKitten]

32. h/t to Reddit in particular for organizing volunteers

[Zorra]

33. Heroes! They said it was impossible. Take a bow, Michigan Vols.

Well I stand up next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand...

[Duval]

34. Thanks, all of you!

[greymouse]

35. hear, hear.

It isn't easy doing phone bank stuff and walking your feet off delivering pamphlets.

[navarth]

36. It was a PLEASURE!! The Great Lakes State says YOU'RE WELCOME!!!

Very proud of my state today.

This ain't over; the kitchen sink will now redouble its efforts.

Time to redouble ours.

Somebody tell me please: what's the maximum one can donate? I'm in the hundreds now, especially after I bought breakfast for the headquarters Saturday. Great bunch of people.

[Indepatriot]

37. Never been prouder to be born and raised in MICHIGAN!

[Plucketeer]

38. Me too!

Even tho I haven't resided there since '81, I still have Michigan blood in my veins. I'm SO proud MI went for truth over twist.

THANK YOU MICHIGAN - THANK YOU FELLOW REVOLUTIONARIES, FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN!

[Indepatriot]

41. I left in 86' but will always be from Detroit. I live in L.A. now and no longer have a desire to

live anywhere it stays cold for 4 months out of the year. But I still love the place....

[Land Shark]

40. The day before the Michigan election, #feel the Bern phone bankers called. Little did They realize..

I had driven over a thousand miles to be with family and get out the vote in my home state of Michigan. As I was convincing my sister and nephew in the living room to feel the Bern, the phone rang. It was Sandsrs' phone banking operation. They had just reached a lively discussion that resulted in tworking new votes for Sanders.

But just so phone bankers keep their spirits up, realize this: the phone banker only asked if there were questions they could answer about Bernie, and the response was that we were in the middle of a discussion about that. When asked at the outset, my sister who was leaning heavily bernie by that point simply said she was "not sure" who she would be supporting.

In reality, at that moment or within a very few minutes later the room had gone all in for Bernie. But the phone bankers only heard "not sure" and "we're in a good discussion about politics right now."

That's what a historic upset can sound like, when you're a phone banker. So keep up the good work phone bankers! Even where you don't share a single fact, I'm sure it helped that the campaign was calling at the same time that we were having our living room discussion about presidential preferences.