Mapping
JESSE COSTELLO-GOOD on Mapping -- from howsfvotes.com
#eqcampsf (today's EqualityCamp schedule)
Neighbor-to-neighbor / peer-to-peer is the most effective.
Reach out to your base, have then reach out to undecided / persuadable / "soft yes".
We need precinct captains.
Can we combine Voter File + Social Network + Geodata? How to ensure effectiveness?
"subsidiarity" is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest / owest / least centralized authority.
Jesse is demonstrating http://p8m.howsfvotes.com/ -- I wonder if this data is in the geocommons? Precinct lines are from 2006 State data, California data not as good as SF voter data.
Dan on the Prop8 campaign:
No on Prop 8 didn't do iterative feedback with voter file (too expensive, just one firm that does it). CallFire was used, but didn't set up the roundtrip to VAN? Not just geography but lots of demographic data to get phone numbers?
Decile vs Clustering approach. Make the data available to end-user activists? O'Reilly Vote Data Hacking?
Progressive developer hacker list?
Access to VAN (non-commercial) on a sliding scale.
Voter connect mission -- reach out to communities of color.
How do you give people options for how to engage? For example, a vet that wants to reach out to other vets.
See Dan's "Power to the Edge: Obama's California Field Operation from the Future".
CourageCampaign -- neighbor2neighbor (BlueStateDigital married with VAN, we are the test), recruit Obama organizers. n2n is a social network, allows you to get to voter contact in 3-clicks.
