NEIGHBORHOOD CHALLENGE

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• NEIGHBORHOOD CHALLENGE
• Utilize the Presidential Caucuses to build our 87
  county and LD organizations
• Recruit Neighborhood Leaders in every community
  in the state

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Goals Strategies - Tactics

• Goals are specific and measurable achievements
• Strategies are plans for achieving goals
• Tactics are steps we take to implement
  strategies (our tools)

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Goal Keep Washington Blue in 2008
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Neighborhood Challenge Goal

• Produce 100,000 Additional Votes for Chris
  Gregoire and our Democratic Presidential Nominee

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Our Strategy

• Recruit Caucus attendees as Neighborhood Leaders
• Neighborhood Leaders perform specific tasks
  within their precincts, legislative districts,
  counties
• Tasks are part of a strategy for meeting our goal
  to
• Produce 100,000 Additional Democratic Votes

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The 2008 Presidential Caucuses
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The 2008 Presidential Caucuses Opportunity

• 250,000 Democrats attended our Caucuses- more
  than double the record turnout in 2004
• Capitalize on the energy of Caucus attendees
• Recruit volunteers from Caucus lists and involve
  them as activists.

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Keep Them Energized and Engaged

• Whether for Hillary
• or Barack

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Contacting Caucus Attendees
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Contacting Caucus Attendees

• From our Caucus sign-in sheets we have gained
• Over 100,000 email addresses
• Thousands of Neighborhood Leader volunteers
• Thousands of new members in our LD and County
  organizations

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Our Tactics

• Create TEAMS of volunteers for Voter
  Registration
• Create TEAMS of volunteers for Voter
  Identification

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Voter Registration - Doorbelling

• Blue Precincts Teams of 5-10 Volunteers

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Voter Identification

• Red Precincts
• Suburban Doorbelling or phone bank
• Rural Phone bank

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Legislative Districts and their Goals

• Each LD category has a voter goal to achieve
• Combined, they produce 100,000 additional
  Gregoire votes
• Urban Blue 5,000 votes each
• Suburban Blue 3,000 votes each
• Suburban Swing 1,500 votes each
• Suburban Red 1,000 votes each
• Rural Western Washington 1,000 votes each
• Rural Eastern Washington 500 votes each

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Example 37th LD Urban Blue

• Only 63 of voters are registered
• Very high Democratic performance

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Example 100 Voter Registration

• 37th LD (Urban Blue)
• Goal 5,000 New Democratic Votes
• Strategy Voter Registration (high Democratic
  performance, no need for ID)
• Tactics Precinct-level teams

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Example 45th LD- Suburban Blue

• Mixed strategies necessary for
• red and blue precincts

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Example Mixed Registration / ID

• 45th LD (Suburban Blue)
• Goal 3,000 New Democratic Votes
• Strategies
• Voter Registration (Blue precincts) Voter
  Identification (Red precincts)
• Tactics
• Precint-level organization (Blue) for doorbelling
  
• LD-level phone bank (Red)

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Example 8th LD- Suburban Red

• Concentrate on ID-
• Registration Counterproductive

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Example 100 Voter Identification

• 8th LD (Suburban Red)
• Goal 1,000 New Democratic Votes
• Strategy Voter Identification
• Tactics LD- level phone bank

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Example 9th LD (Asotin, Garfield, Adams,
Whitman, Spokane, Franklin)

• More than 60 ungraded voters

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Example 100 Voter Identification

• Asotin County (Rural, Eastern Washington)
• Goal 86 New Democratic Voters
• Strategy Voter Identification
• Tactics County or larger LD-level phone bank

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County and District-Level Goals

• Each LD or county has a goal to achieve for
  Caucus attendance and additional Gregoire votes
• When every LD meets or beats its goal we will
  have over 100,000 additional Gregoire votes!

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Getting Credit for a Vote

• Register a new voter and make sure he/she votes
  in November
• "ID" a voter in a Republican leaning precinct and
  make sure he/she votes in November
• Work with a "0 out of 4" Democrat to make sure he
  or she votes in November