His appeal was more basic – voters were angry at a system from which they feel excluded and saw Trump as different, not politics-as-usual, someone who "heard" their concerns.
Officials at both campaigns say the most insightful data remains the basics: a voter's party affiliation, voting history, basic information like age and race, and preferences gleaned from one-on-one conversations with volunteers.
James L. Brulte, the Republican leader in the State Senate, said the party needed to return to basics: building voter lists, recruiting candidates, ringing doorbells.
This has also been the basic focus of voter registration programs, which attempt to "engage" voters by making them feel part of something bigger than themselves.
Since the list includes all of the data that has been collected by the Sanders campaign so far, it argues it is now unable to perform all the most basic aspects of voter contact such as knocking on doors and making phone calls in any functional way, leaving its grassroots efforts virtually crippled in the crucial run-up to the Iowa caucus.
In response to this, the Fair Elections Legal Network launched the Campus Vote Project to work with school administrators to make basic information about voter registration and voting more accessible for college students.
In a highly partisan and closely divided election as we have seen where even the most basic facts about voter fraud or global warming are disputed, a less than conclusive result might portend a contentious post-election legal or political battle to resolve the presidency.
The most basic act of voter education and persuasion that I incorporate into daily life as the anti-gay-marriage amendment approaches in Minnesota is to walk around in a T-shirt that says, "Vote No: Don't Limit the Freedom to Marry".
The justices' questioning indicated that a majority did not accept the challengers' basic argument — that voter-impersonation fraud is not a problem, so requiring voters to produce government-issued photo identification at the polls is an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.
The guiding principle should be the voters' basic right to a genuine election.
