I just spent 2 hours calling 110 democrats and undecideds in Mass this afternoon

[graywarrior]

Results: 30 voice mails, one Brown vote, the rest for Coakley. Three undecideds listened when I said "Do it for Teddy." Two of us got all weepy and promised one another we'd put aside our anger and vote for Ted.

I also heard that Congressman John Tierney said the visibilities we are seeing are one big group that moves around the state and that they are busing them in. We all learned from the Obama campaign that signs mean nothing. We're mobilized here. There were 8 people in my small town making calls today. Tomorrow we do it again.

Based on the positive responses from todays calls, I sincerely believe we will win this. There are more of us than them.

[taterguy]

1. And yet, you never call me

:wtf:

[graywarrior]

7. I'm back ordered on my sex calls.

[dave29]

43. bwahaha

:) Great work, keep it up!!

[graywarrior]

44. Don't use that phrase around Taterguy.

:P

[taterguy]

84. Sex, sex, sex. Is that all I think about?

[Left Coast2020]

101. Sex calls for Teddy? OMG!!!!!!

[mikelgb]

137. HI I'm calling to ask you to vote for Coakley... what are you wearing?

[FourScore]

146. LOL

[HowHasItComeToThis]

156. THANKS, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CALL

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[blue neen]

2. Thank you so much for the report of good news and the great work you are doing.

:yourock:

[leftygolfer]

3. Good work

I hope you are right, we NEED this win.

[Arkana]

4. *claps*

Awesome. Good on ya.

Also free the duck

[greenbriar]

5. you rock

,

[BeatleBoot]

6. Turnout.

Sic 'em graywarrior!

Turnout

Turnout

Turnout


Saying prayers for my brothers and sisters in the great state of Massachusetts!

[KingFlorez]

8. Good work

It's the regular citizens stepping up and fighting for this seat that will save it.

[bobbolink]

25. And I hope to hell that Coakley remembers that if and win she takes her seat.

Some of us are damned sick of giving our all, and having it thrown off a cliff when it becomes convenient to do so.

There is a lesson to be learned here.

[graywarrior]

31. I hope they're getting the message.

[Left Coast2020]

103. Awsome stuff Dude. And I was only joking about the sex calls :)

:kick:

[Betty Karlson]

9. You are a credit to your nation. N/T

[tblue]

10. Thank you!!!

I know what that phone banking is like. You're a mensch. :hug:

Are you working off of a website from home? Thank you for sharing, too!

[graywarrior]

15. No, I went into a local buiness who donated their phones.

They had a fantastic calling system. No dialing. We called all over the state which gives me hope that Martha will win this.

[JDPriestly]

89. Did anyone ask you about the health care bill, and if so, how did you handle it?

[Cha]

11. Graywarrior!

Thank you! For your calls and the refreshing news :patriot:

:patriot:~STAND WITH MARTHA~:patriot:
http://www.marthacoakley.com/

[abluelady]

12. Wow!

You got 80 people to answer their phones! I find that wonderful. I rarely answer my phone if I don't know whose calling. Congratulations.

[graywarrior]

20. Sunday afternoon football.

They're all home. Mr Gray had even better results with his calls. He's got the Irish gift of gab.

[NJmaverick]

13. You rock!

:yourock:

[BeFree]

14. Good work

A strong turnout will beat diebold every time. I hope.

[cal04]

16. thank you graywarrior. Josh Marshall has some readers checking in

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Longtime TPM Reader FC checks in ...
From West Roxbury & Hyde Park

An update from someone working the past 2 days in suburbs around Boston and the high-turnout neighborhoods of West Roxbury and Hyde Park.

There has been a huge uptick in activity by Coakley supporters over the past 48 hours, especially grassroots progressive groups and the well-oiled, disciplined and certain-to-vote unions who came out big for Coakley in the primary: SEIU has quietly conducted numerous GOTV-prep sessions numbering several hundred volunteers each; teachers in Brookline, Newton and Watertown conducted day-long phone banks and canvassing; pro-choice womens' groups (including a large contingent of nurses) have been running an intensive outreach to female voters.

I've also been receiving a deluge of emails and text messages from individuals and groups who have been quiet since the primary, all urging me to vote, volunteer, etc. My sense is that the progressive majority here has simply been procrastinating on this, the fourth election since October, and are now clicking into action.


TPM Reader PM reports from Somerville ...
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/01/another_report_from_the_ground.php?ref=fpblg

[Cha]

18. Thank you for this news

cal!

[dkf]

24. Ha! Those unions are true blue. I hope we stop pissing them off.

[graywarrior]

26. The dem machine is oiled and running

People I talked to are aware how crucial their vote is and their promising to show up.

[newspeak]

141. As a progressive

I'd vote for Coakley just because the memory of Kennedy. To have a repuke take his seat, to me, would be unimaginable.

[mdmc]

17. good times

God, how I hate it..

[dkf]

19. When you say democrats are you talking about registered democrats?

Or are you including some people registered as indys but who normally vote with the party? I ask because the independents out number us and wouldnt they be a more important call in the late stages?

Or can we do it with just dems alone?

[graywarrior]

28. I have no way of knowing if I talked with dems or indies.

I was just told that's who we were calling. I'm assuming the undecideds were indies who were leaning toward Coakley.

[Parker CA]

21. Good on ya, Gray! Thanks for the positive report too.

[renegade000]

22. thanks for your efforts!

:yourock:

[frazzled]

23. That's great, but you need to remember the lists you were working from

were already people who had been marked as "pluses" (or whatever system the campaign has been using for voter ID)--Democrats or Independents who had either already committed support or who had voted for the Democrat in past elections.

So you weren't likely to get many Brown voters. You weren't doing voter ID. You were trying to get probable supporters to the polls.

[graywarrior]

29. I thought more dems would be negative and against Coakley

We have more dems than republicans, so we need to get those people out to vote. I have no idea who I called today as it was autodial but the majority were going for Coakley. I am hoping there were lots of indies included in those calls.

[bobbolink]

27. Thanks for your efforts.

[Adelante]

30. Good work

Thank you for the report :toast:

[grytpype]

32. +1000

[spanone]

33. they're teabagging elections...i predict this will be an all too familiar pattern

[Kip Humphrey]

34. I pray for the day you can let the chicken go.

[graywarrior]

40. bok bok!

[flamingdem]

35. u roc thanks!! nt

[Hatchling]

36. What would you do for a vote?

Would you free the duck?







note: rhetorical question as I'm not eligible to vote in this election.

[graywarrior]

41. Ummmmmmmm......

?

[Hatchling]

47. Kudos for you level of commitment!

To even think of freeing the duck for an instant shows you care. :rofl:

[graywarrior]

52. It was one of those moments when you'd sell out your family for a cause...lol

[tavalon]

104. Duck taped is part of homeland security, you know

That, and visqueen. Or, whatever..............

[peekaloo]

37. Thank you for your efforts.

:yourock:

[tabatha]

38. Thank you! graywarrior.

[Vidar]

39. Thank you.

[Call Me Wesley]

42. Let's win.

Thanks for doing this! :hug:

And you and me know how nasty 'Brown vote' sounds. Ewwwww ...

[graywarrior]

45. We'll all have brown skivvies if he wins.

[Call Me Wesley]

48. It'll be sad, but nothing not to undo in the future.

On the other hand, we're talking Ted Kennedy's seat here, the Lion of the Senate, so you better not lose this one. Thanks again for doing what you did!

[goclark]

46. We are with you all the way! nt

[berni_mccoy]

49. Thank you for the report. That is good news.

[undeterred]

50. Thank you!

:kick:

[Jennicut]

51. Thanks graywarrior, for all your hard work.

[TomCADem]

53. Awesome Work! K & R!

:bounce:

[femmocrat]

54. Thank you, graywarrior!

For both the hard work and the good news. The fate of the entire country is depending on the results of this election!

I love that you told them to "Do it for Teddy." That is wonderful. :hug:

[graywarrior]

55. That's why I'm voting for Martha

Every moment, I think of what Ted would want. And I think of what an insult to his life it would be to vote any other way.

[Peacetrain]

56. Doggone it.. they will not let me rec twice!!

Awesome!

[merh]

57. thank you

:yourock:

:hug:

[struggle4progress]

58. Many thanks!

[Fire1]

59. Thank you graywarrior! You are to be commended. n/t

[Catshrink]

60. You are an inspiration and the perfect DUer

or would be if you'd release the duck.

[Number23]

110. I second that! Instead of proclamations of doom and misery from "up high" (aka "up my ass")

Graywarrior is actually IN Massachusetts, doing the work and contributing in a positive way. She is to be commended. :patriot:

[Catshrink]

120. Yeah, but about that duck...

[proud patriot]

61. woohoo

Let me buy you a drink

[NYC_SKP]

62. I take back all the horrid things I've said about you...

Or, well, most of them. :hi:

:loveya:

Thanks, graywarrior, you awesome bit of wonderful, you!!!!

:applause:

[Frustratedlady]

63. I agree! I feel much better now and hope that many of those were Indys.

Thank you for your efforts.

[graywarrior]

65. .

:hug:

[karynnj]

64. You are fantastic and this is a great report

This is really good and bodes well.

[pruple]

66. thank you, graywarrior n/t

[texanwitch]

67. Good for you, every vote counts.

I did the same for our new mayor.

[Douglas Carpenter]

68. kick and recommend

[azmouse]

69. You are one of my heroes!

If I ever decide to grow up I want to be just like you! :hug:

[TheBigotBasher]

70. Well done

You can be proud of yourself.

Thank you also for the very heartening news.

[Dinger]

71. Kick & Rec & Thanks!

:)

[BumRushDaShow]

72. K&R and thank you

(and your still-taped duck :P) for the effort! This from a UMASS alumni.

:fistbump:

Let's hope that there's a high turnout.

:kick:

[Scurrilous]

73. K & R

:thumbsup:

[MineralMan]

74. Well, for now, I guess I'll let you keep the duck!

:rofl:

[icnorth]

130. Don't be deceived by looks...

that is a Republican duck if I ever saw one, shackled by Limbaugh ideology. Keep em right where he is. :evilgrin:

[redwitch]

155. Hah! I posted the same thing before reading all the posts.

Great minds ya know.

[Chulanowa]

75. Just more evidence...

Of how far divorced from reality DU has become in the last two years.

[MadMaddie]

77. What are you talking about?

Are your refuting GrayWarriors statistics? Did you make any calls?

[Chulanowa]

78. I'm not,

Quite the opposite, I have no doubt that they're accurate.

But then I look around DU and see a bunch of smug motherfuckers puffing out over Brown's numbers and proclaiming htat democrats "deserve" to lose, and assorted shit in that vein.

Most of the country is backing the Democrats, both on a state and national level. DU... not so much.

[MadMaddie]

102. Oh sorry

You are right about your thoughts.

I think Browns numbers are inflated by the media and others in order to discourage Dem voters. The media is worthless.

[cadmium]

153. The media is heavily

in the Brown camp pocket (or vice versa). His wife is a long time popular Boston news reporter. His daughter is a beautiful "idolized" American Idol singing star and Boston College basketball star--brings in a lot of young voters. Media in Boston/Massachusetts is a pretty incestuous (in the nonsexual sense) crowd. The Romney machine trashed and hounded his predecessor Jane Swift by using every aspect of the Massachusetts media to make her look like a fool -- paving the way for Romney.

[Number23]

109. Couldn't agree more, Chulanowa. Which is why most of us don't take any of these Doom and Gloom

fools seriously. (Oddly enough, they just post MORE BS OPs full of doom and stupidity in response. Guess because they know that as long as they post them in GD, they'll get the recs...)

Kicked and Rec'd. Thanks for your actual work in ACTUAL Massachusetts, graywarrior! Thank you for your efforts and most importantly, for your positivity!!!

[MadMaddie]

76. Thanks for your work GrayWarrior!

[joe1991]

79. Thank you from Texas

Thank you so much for your work. I loved how you asked people to do it for Teddy.

In places like here in the south, it is sickening how much hate there is for a family who gave all of their sons in service to America.

A loss will give the teabaggers so much joy it literally makes me sick at my stomach to think about it.

Not only would they be glowing over the loss of Ted's seat, along with increased chances of losing a HC bill (though not perfect, we have to get it passed), but they will use it to further their attacks on Obama.

I pray the good people of Mass will realize the national importance of their vote.

I haven't logged in DU for quite a while, but gd, this is so very important.

[JimWis]

80. Thank you for your work . And for sharing how it went.

[backscatter712]

81. What, no Marvins here?

OK, in other threads, they're getting called Eeyores, but I find the persona of Marvin the Paranoid Android fits pretty well.

Seriously, graywarrior, you're awesome!!!

[Grand Taurean]

82. Thank you for all your work.

I do not live in MA so I cannot do that much for you.
I sent $150 to her campaign.
You are very optimistic about this whole thing.

[RBInMaine]

90. You can call from home even out of state. Go to the Coakley website, DNC, or Organizing For America

to sign up like I did today. It is simple and easy.

[JustAnotherGen]

83. 95 Recs

;-) That's WONDERFUL to read! :-)

[femrap]

85. I certainly hope she wins....

I just can't imagine the people of MA becoming repugs.

[Ohio Joe]

86. Thanks graywarrior

I appreciate your efforts!

[NJCher]

87. hey graywarrior

Thanks for the report.

Maybe I'll sleep a little tonight. Being a New Jerseyan, whose state went to a bush-league republican (Chris Christie), I have been steeling myself for a loss in Mass. Your words are like rain in the desert.

And thanks for doing the phone banking.


Cher

[nevergiveup]

88. May the gods of good fortune bless you and thank you from the state of Illinois

After you have secured Teddy's seat will you come to Illinois and help us save Obama's old Senate seat?

[Greybnk48]

91. No matter the results, thank you for your hard work!

For what it's worth you have my admiration.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

92. And you wonder why I lubs you.

:*

Keek-Rec! :hug:

[H2O Man]

93. Recommended.

Thank you.

[madmax]

94. Love you graywarrior

:hug:

[valerief]

95. I just hope Coakley can beat Diebold. nt

[naaman fletcher]

96. Surely it took you more than 30 seconds per call.

But awesome work!

[Grand Taurean]

97. kick for all of your hard work.

[Demoiselle]

98. That's great news, graywarrior.

Thank you for all that hard work.

[EFerrari]

99. Thank you, graywarrior!

:hi:

[tnlefty]

100. *Fingers crossed* and good luck.

I hope that you're better with phone banking than I am! I get yelled at a lot, lol. I'm much better with driving people to vote.

I'll hang on to your positive report and I hope that Coakley pulls this one out.

[drm604]

105. Thank you!

I may even forgive for not releasing that poor duck.

[Bobbie Jo]

106. Rock on, graywarrior...

Rock On! :fistbump:

[janet118]

107. Good work, Grey n/t

[AllenVanAllen]

108. "Do it for Teddy"

Great job graywarrior! May we win the day. :hi:

[a la izquierda]

111. a good buddy of mine has been bitching...

all day on facebook about all the calls she's getting. most of the comments on her page are related to incessant calls from both sides (about 50 or so). the apathy is astonishing.

ETA: Thanks for your work, though. I don't live in MA, and haven't been following the race, but I sure as shit don't want Scott Brown in Teddy's seat.

[politicasista]

112. Kick for graywarrior

:kick: :yourock:

[Number23]

113. Three cheers for Graywarrior!

Hip, hip! HOORAY! :party:

Hip, hip! HOORAY!! :party:

Hip, hip!! HOORAY!! :party:

Keep doing your thing, being positive, helping out as best you can and making us all proud! :applause:

[sueh]

114. Thank you, graywarrior, to you and to everyone working for Coakley.

:yourock:

[wisteria]

115. Good news, thank you for working so hard. Go Coakley! n/t

[applegrove]

116. Good for you.

[liquid diamond]

117. Good on you.

But the notion that we have to fight this hard to beat republicans in Massachusetts is pathetic. Can you imagine Obama being competitive in Alabama in the general election? That's how ridiculous this is.

[Tarheel_Dem]

118. Thank you GrayWarrior. An encouraging report indeed. (nt)

[TexasObserver]

119. Recommend

[BlueDemKev]

121. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you....

....110 times over! Hopefully, we'll get enough of our base out to vote on Tuesday and keep this seat Democratic.

[old mark]

122. Rec. Thank you. nt

[TicketyBoo]

123. The eyes of the nation

are on Massachusetts this week.

Hoping for the best of outcomes!

[impik]

124. Respect. You're a true citizen.

[ChicagoSuz219]

125. Good #s... please make sure

when you ask people to 'do it for Teddy,' they know that the teabagger candidate is also named Kennedy. "Joe NO RELATION Kennedy."

Thanks! Great job!

[DFW]

126. Thanks for doing this!!!

It is SO important!

[NikolaC]

127. K&R

You and everyone working hard to save Teddy's seat for Coakley deserve a lot of kudos and respect. I wish you all good luck this week in saving the seat.

[KrazyinKS]

128. I hope you are right

There are a lot of people across the country counting on this. The report on Morning Joe by Chris Matthews was not good. He said people ins Massachusetts already have health care and are unconcerned about everyone else. I hope that is wrong. I will be totally disenheartened if they go Republican. I feel like giving up.

[G_j]

129. K&R

:applause:

[GinaMaria]

131. Question?

I've phone banked in my own state and the GOTV effort is limited to people registered as Democrats. Our lists are of people who have identified themselves in the primary as Ds. Is it different in Mass? Do you get to call anyone who has ever voted, or anyone in the state? Just curious as it seems we could do better here and I'm wondering how others do this.

[edogawa]

132. My brother lives in Boston

And he believes Mr. Brown has no chance of winning. He says that he believes that the R's have planned to steal this election all along, but the state's democrats are prepared to step in and do whatever is needed to make sure that the election is fair and Martha wins. My brother works for the state government in the secretary of state office.

[lisa58]

133. thank you

[spanone]

134. k&r

[treestar]

135. Bless you!

:yourock:

I read something on DU that she was Teddy's choice to succeed him? Is that right?

[BolivarianHero]

136. The polls aren't that solidly for Brown...

Don't give up. When people are alone with their ballot, they'll remember who represented them for so many decades.

[Mark D.]

138. Right Wing Unity

That's what we're up against. I live in Mass, I'm doing what I can too. But there is unity on the right, they'll all vote for Brown (well, a few will vote for the Libertarian). We don't have that spirit and we need it. Democrats who vote for Brown should be ashamed, and they should not stay home and literally give Teddy the finger up in Heaven for all of his hard work...to have the seat he held get handed to that corporate prostitute Scott Brown. Even the right wingers need to be called on this. He supports the continued reward of companies to export our jobs overseas. His Democratic opponent does not. When they try to question your 'patriotism' ask them why they hate Americans.

Watch their head spin as you use their common phrases against them. I'm one of the liberals who opposes what's left of the once promising health care reform. What will pass will appear to have no public option, and no protection for those with pre-existing conditions. But I won't let one bill hand this seat over to that idiot Brown. If Mass can't keep a long-standing, important, Democratic seat in Democratic hands, given how we're supposedly a 'liberal' state, how the hell can we keep many seats nationwide. Especially in states that are considered more 'red'. This is a bellwether for the possible future problems we have. While Martha's not perfect, she's still far better than Scott Brown for it.

[flamingdem]

139. k + r - vote for Coakley!

[johan helge]

140. K & r

[defendandprotect]

142. Great effort -- good luck tomorrow !!

:)

[colsohlibgal]

143. Thanks, Hope You're Right

Coakley made this close by doing virtually nothing for quite awhile after she got the nod to run.

What gives me pause is this - now that it's close will the Diebold folks just flip a few votes if needed? It would hardly be the first time if they do that, I have no doubt Kerry really won in 2004 and that Cleland in reality got the votes to keep his seat, and there are more curious results than these two. That so many states use this unverifiable computer system amazes me, it's some combination of stupidity and graft. Like old Joe Stalin said, the power is not with the people who vote, but rather with the people who count those votes.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

144. Yay, I'm glad my slogan has caught fire. :) +1

http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x127133

[FourScore]

145. Thank you, graywarrior! n/t k/r

[perdita9]

147. This is How Democracy Works!

A big thank you to all the volunteers out there who make phone calls and knock on doors.

[winyanstaz]

148. thank you graywarrior :) well done...

[Froward69]

149. And then free the Duck???

J/K

Good Job... I am feeling Optimistic again.

[firedupdem]

150. K&R! n/t

[gardenista]

151. YOU ROCK!

I did my calls in honor of my mom, a great precinct worker who died a year ago. She's bringing in the celestial vote, a guarantee.

[MiamiVice]

152. Wish i was in Mass., so i could vote for Martha

So mad that i am not Mass. resident so i can vote for Martha. We need Dems to win, but anyway, i think that even if they lose, Dems in Senate can use 51 votes to get the Health care, right, guys?
Please enlighten this Vice City Lady about that!
By the way, i am new here, i have been coming for a while but today i decided to register!

[redwitch]

154. You are teh awesome!

And I have finally figured out the duck. That's a republican duck right? It can stay taped up until the next milennium. Because ducks oughta have better sense.

[icnorth]

162. Us great minds have got to stick together ya know...

the

duck

and

the

Anal Cyst

[Little Star]

157. Go Martha! I hope you are right an there are more of us. n/t

[kayla9170]

158. Good to Hear!!

:yourock:

I hope that some of the Democrats here on DU realize how easy everything that was won by having Barack Obama elected could be lost if we continue to keep dogging our party like we have been. Giving flames to the Teabaggers is a BIG mistake and will not make the economic situation ANY BETTER for years.

[Barbara2423]

159. Thank you for your hard work. I was wondering what the 'real'

people were saying. I don't trust the media.

[MrsBrady]

160. thank you! n/t

[GCP]

161. Thank you for your efforts, GW

:applause:
I made some girl's day today when she called and asked if I was voting for Martha, and said "Yes"