September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
The secret to winning campaigns? Knocking on doors. FiveThirtyEight.com has the gritty details. In short, researchers have shown that 12 successful face to face contacts lead to one additional vote for a candidate.
Let’s do a little math. 12 face-to-face contacts is one new voter who would not have otherwise voted that you [...]
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Tags: · activism, politics
The Free Software Foundation’s list of reasons why you should avoid the iPhone have gotten plenty of coverage, which is of course the point of making such a list. I assume their tactics are the same as Greenpeace’s criticism of Apple’s environmental practices.
The goal is, of course, to get Apple to change its behavior, but [...]
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Tags: · activism, Apple, free software, iPhone