Comments on: GOTV? GOML!* http://legion.matinic.us/2008/11/03/gotv-goml/ An amalgamated journal Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:29:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Markus http://legion.matinic.us/2008/11/03/gotv-goml/comment-page-1/#comment-717 Markus Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:54:29 +0000 http://legion.matinic.us/?p=532#comment-717 I think the mental calculus here is less "I'm from Massachusetts, let me go tell a New Hampshirite how to vote" than "I'm an American, let me go tell another American how to vote." Even if there are regional differences, the presidency and Congress are, after all, national offices. And are Virginians' value systems <i>really</i> that different from ours -- so different that we can't even try to communicate? And and, isn't the point of GOTV mostly to act as a highly targeted personal advertisement, reminding people who have already made up their minds of exactly when and where to vote? Offering rides and reassurance? I don't see what's presumptuous about that. I think the mental calculus here is less “I’m from Massachusetts, let me go tell a New Hampshirite how to vote” than “I’m an American, let me go tell another American how to vote.” Even if there are regional differences, the presidency and Congress are, after all, national offices. And are Virginians’ value systems really that different from ours — so different that we can’t even try to communicate?

And and, isn’t the point of GOTV mostly to act as a highly targeted personal advertisement, reminding people who have already made up their minds of exactly when and where to vote? Offering rides and reassurance? I don’t see what’s presumptuous about that.

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