I’ve been getting at least three phone calls a day from them, begging me to vote for Texan democrats. My answer is always the same: “I will not vote for a party that is responsible for genocide against Palestine. I will not vote for a party that fully endorses Israeli crimes.”
In previous years they would try arguing me if I said something like I don’t vote for imperialists, or that democrats have horrible records on issues like homelessness or healthcare. They would talk with me and try to get at the crux of the issue, usually just resorting to telling me that Republicans are even worse, which is usually fair I guess, but at least they’d argue a little, you know?
This year it’s nothing. I say that I’m with the people of Palestine and it’s like I said the secret word. Immediately it’s “Ok, thank you.” and they hang up. What is up with this? Did they do some kind of internal polling to decide it’s not even worth arguing about? If you’re gonna call me at 10:14 am on a Saturday to be a lib at least let me dunk on you a little
Democratic Party data is a huge mess and most of the data collected goes nowhere. On the other end the person interacting with you is marking you a 5 (“Strong Republican”) or 6 (“Other”) and taking you off their list.
Those records might be shared with other campaigns indirectly through the Democratic Data Exchange, but there’s a lot of legal hurdles to transfer that data. So most organizations aren’t doing it.
They’re probably trying to sell the data to each other