Field offices serve as a base for the most effective get-out-the-vote tactics, like door-to-door canvassing.
And he appeared in Cincinnati just before Election Day, denouncing long lines as proof of repress-the-vote tactics.
The Corzine campaign took get-out-the-vote tactics, and budgets, to new heights before the June 6 Democratic primary.
By training activists in get-out-the-vote tactics like the "voter bombs" that helped Scott Brown become the new Republican senator from Massachusetts, they are hoping to unseat Nevada's senior senator and the Democratic leader, Harry Reid.
FreedomWorks, which has become an umbrella for Tea Party groups, held a Liberty Summit on Thursday morning to train supporters in get-out-the-vote tactics and then joined other conservative organizations for an evening rally on the Mall, which 5,000 to 10,000 people attended.
Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the use of field experimental methods to examine the impact of a range of get-out-the-vote tactics (Green and Gerber, 2008), continuing a tradition that dates as far back as Gosnell (1927).
After experimentally testing countless get-out-the-vote tactics, Political Scientist's Alan Gerber and Donald Green hit the jackpot: randomly sending letters (pictured below) that threatened to reveal who voted to their neighbors boosted turnout by an astonishing 8%, higher than same-day registration laws or vote-by-mail ballots (3%), direct mail (0.6%)and television (~0%).
The Obama campaign office at the University of Texas in Austin was swarming with student volunteers making phone calls, organizing "dorm storms" and other get-out-the-vote tactics.
Clever political scientists have put every imaginable get-out-the-vote tactic through the experimental grinder, from call banks to TV advertisements, and found that shame, rather than persuasion or education, is the most effective way to get civic couch potatoes into the voting booth.
