Campaigns Pick Up the Phone to Get Out the Vote
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Swing-state voters might want to let the answering machine screen their calls over the next several weeks -- President Bush or Sen. John Kerry could be on the line.
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Candidates could face problems as they try to integrate online political discourse into traditional campaigning.
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The energized voters that candidates see on the campaign trail
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It's all about turning out voters now. After a year of stump speeches, TV ads and face-to-face politicking, presidential get-out-the-vote operations are in overdrive in the final hours before Iowa's caucuses. Campaigns largely are relying on traditional methods, what one operative terms the "knock-and-drag" approach Â knock on doors and drag voters to the caucuses.
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A text-messaging service is put into action to choreograph fast-moving political protests.
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A sample of some of the calls Florida residents are receiving prior to Tuesday's Republican primary.
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Democratic Sen. John Kerry's campaign is adding a new twist on phone bank calling: Ask thousands at a post-debate rally to dial up their cell phones and call three undecided voters in Arizona.
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Just about everybody wants to have their say in this presidential election. From evangelical preachers who claim "God is not a Republican or a Democrat" to the anti-abortion Catholics Against Kerry, political advertising by smaller groups, and individuals in some cases, is popping up across the country.
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With the presidential election less than six weeks away, activists and security experts are ratcheting up concern over the use of touch-screen machines to cast votes.
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Net phones--and their portable phone numbers--help business avoid RNC crowds.
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Telephone surveys are the meat and potatoes of political polling groups. But as more Americans switch from land lines to cell phones, a growing segment of the population may be left out of the equation. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Presidential hopefuls starting to use blogs, social networking sites to advance their cause.
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Wireless devices slip past anti-gadget policies to open a new communications channel to lawmakers.
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Voters weary of campaign advertising will get a reprieve Monday in the political equivalent of a moment of silence.
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On Nov. 2, some 6 million Washington-area voters will use touch-screen machines, a key test of a new technology that will play a major role in deciding what promises to be a very close presidential election. -washingtonpost.com
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Political polling outfits exclude cell phone users from this year's presidential surveys. But a new survey indicates that mobile phone users are a distinct voting group whose ballot preferences might not be reflected in traditional polls. By Elisa Batista.
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Young people are more likely to vote when they receive a text-message reminder, according to new research.