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Title: Unbelievable – Ted Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal “Shaming Letters” To Iowa Voters
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The Conservative Treehouse
URL Source: http://theconservativetreehouse.com ... haming-letters-to-iowa-voters/
Published: Jan 30, 2016
Author: sundance
Post Date: 2016-01-30 08:24:10 by Roscoe
Keywords: None
Views: 8223
Comments: 41
The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history. 
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#15. To: Roscoe, TooConservative, redleghunter (#0)
With social media and smart phones ,the whole country ,many for the 1st time, is going to get to witness an archaic form of polling in Iowa. There is a bunch of cajoling ,and pressuring people to switch sides inside the caucus room. This voter report card is tame by comparison. I do have to amend comments I made on a different posting about the process. The Republicans have taken steps so that the final tally is a private vote. The Dems still caucus the way I previously described . The emperor's campaign ,through Moveon.org ,did similar mailing in 2012 .There was negative reaction ;but it was mostly tepid . The Republican org “Grow Missouri” did it in 2014 . http://fox2now.com/2014/11/03/political-groups-using-voting-report-cards-to-get- voters-to-the-polls/ Let's assume it is legit that the Cruz campaign sent these out (and no one has convinced me yet that this isn't a false flag dirty trick by one of the other campaigns ). A study was done in Michigan in 2006 ,and it found that shaming is as effective way to increase turnout . A large-scale field experiment involving several hundred thousand registered voters used a series of mailings to gauge these effects. Substantially higher turnout was observed among those who received mailings promising to publicize their turnout to their household or their neighbors. These findings demonstrate the profound importance of social pressure as an inducement to political participation. http://isps.yale.edu/research/publications/isps08-001#.Vq0AiDb2Zjp Applying social pressure has been proposed as a way to increase voter turnout in the United States. To study the effect of increased social pressure on turnout, researchers sent households one of four randomly selected mailings eleven days before Michigan’s August 2006 primary election. All four mailings increased turnout, but informing households of their neighbors’ past voting records raised turnout among registered voters by 8.1 percentage points, making the mailing about as effective as in-person canvassing. Waiting for Trump to tweet that Cruz is running a tacky campaign. lol .
Cuba sometimes achieves turnouts in excess of 98%.
yes they do ,and other democracies like Australia makes voting mandatory .
They also have mass gun confiscation. Happy?
They also have mass gun confiscation. Happy? I wasn't defending it . I think voting should be a choice. A report card like that would not 'shame ' me either because I think it is a legitimate expression of preference to not participate in the franchise .
I think it's ethically impaired.
What is ethically impaired ? The mailers ? Compared to what ? This is politics . They are not running for sainthood ;and you are probably not supporting the most ethical person in the race anyway.
Explain what, if anything, is ethical about them.
Let's start with Ben Carson . Not an unethical bone in his body . .How about Cruz ? You talk about his ethics .He was one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the country . He could've sold out and made a fortune in the finest law firms in the nation . Instead he became the citizen statesman the founders envisioned .Instead he chose public service ;and on top of that ,has been one of the few in Congress who has taken on the Speaker Bonehead and McConnell establishment . So instead of applauding his selfless sacrifice ,his critics get on his case over some BS technicality in his campaign finance filings where he put up all his assets as collateral to finance a campaign. Instead the idiot critics say that he is bought and sold .....absolutely preposterous .....Instead they call him the insider ? and now the most unethical candidate in the Republican race (Trump) challenges his eligibility to run ? You haven't scratched the surface of unethical behavior until you explore the Trump relationship to organized crime .
He did.
#34. To: Roscoe (#32)
Cruz was not among the lawyers doing the arguing part of it, and did not appear in court. He assisted the firm in the case ;a case that earned the whole law firm $5,000 whoooo hoooo !! BUT he did successfully argue a $5 million intellectual theft case before SCOTUS AGAINST a Chinese company .[ Global Tech v. SEB ]At Cruz urging, SCOTUS decided 8-1, upholding a $5 million verdict against a Chinese counterfeiter; and adopted a strict legal standard against those who misappropriate U.S. intellectual property. You should review the facts before you post the propaganda.
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#16. To: tomder55 (#15)
shaming is as effective way to increase turnout
#18. To: Roscoe (#16)
Cuba sometimes achieves turnouts in excess of 98%
#19. To: tomder55 (#18)
Australia makes voting mandatory
#20. To: Roscoe (#19)
Australia makes voting mandatory
#21. To: tomder55 (#20)
I think it is a legitimate expression
#26. To: Roscoe (#21)
I think it's ethically impaired.
#27. To: tomder55 (#26)
#31. To: Roscoe (#27)
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Explain what, if anything, is ethical about them.
#32. To: tomder55 (#31)
He was one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the country . He could've sold out
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