Alabamians Tweeting for Doug Jones for Senate: December 2017

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Trump resistance; direct tweeting

On election night, Doug Jones said there had been 1,200,000 phone calls and 300,000 door knocks.

It has been reported that, in the postcarding effort, Alabama Democrats received 347,709 postcards that were sent by 6,376 volunteers, reminding them to vote. https://twitter.com/cyan_blue/status/941805405260333056.

New Yorker magazine published an article on Dec. 15th, "How the Trump Resistance Went Pro in Alabama"

Alabama Indivisible chapters worked hard to help elect Doug Jones. Shout out to @indivisible5al @IndivisibleBHM @IndivisibleAL @IndivisibleALD6 #TheResistance #Indivisible https://t.co/waayLEggLf
— IndivisibleWestchester (@IndivisWstchr) December 15, 2017

The article reported that 1500 national Indivisible volunteers sent 242,400 texts to likely Democrat voters in Alabama, reminding them to vote

I promoted #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones. I was unsuccessful in that and very few such tweets were sent.

I am sure many in Indivisible are strategizing about what to do next in their Trump resistance and how to do it.

I think the most effective thing to do in the Trump resistance is to endeavor to peel away his support by means of messaging to them that (i) Trump lied to them and conned them in his election campaign, (ii) Trump's health care and tax cut ideas and actions are the leading examples that show Trump conned his voters in the election, (iii) Trump continues to lie to his voters that his health care and tax cuts are furthering what he promised them in the election campaign, and (iv) the Trump voters need to see that Trump has conned them.

If that messaging can be effectively communicated to the Trump voters, the object is that they will turn on Trump and take it out on Congressional Republicans in the 2018 elections.

The effectiveness of this approach can be increased by making Congressional Republicans aware that the messaging is going on. The Congressional Republicans are complicit in Trump's lying about his health care proposal and tax cuts plan. The longer they are complicit, the greater the retribution will potentially be against them next November.

I am trying to do the foregoing messaging in the Alabama 6th Congressional district where I live. See Gary Palmer review. I am doing my messaging by means of my blog and a lot of direct tweeting to voters in my district. I am interested in other people helping me out in the messaging I am trying to do.

If others around the country think what I am doing is a good idea, I hope they will find ways to do the same where they live.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Out of stater tweet

[revised 9/14/20]

Dear Alabama voter:

Please forgive me as an out of stater tweeting to you about your Senate election.

I am doing so because I consider myself a middle of the roader who is distraught by the extreme polarization and hyperpartisanship that is impairing the decent functioning of Congress and our government for the American people.

In all honesty, I think Donald Trump is horrendously divisive for the country, and for Tommy Tuberville to be elected as Senator from Alabama would only add to the culture war that is tearing the country apart.

I have no idea about your political beliefs, and I am sure there is much you and I would disagree about. I only wish for us and for our Congress to do a better job in working together to try to solve the country's huge problems.

For that I reason, I think keeping Doug Jones as Senator from Alabama would be much better for Alabama, for the country, and for you and me.

I hope you will vote for Doug Jones.

Sincerely
THE OUT OF STATER who tweeted to you a link to this webpage

Friday, December 8, 2017

Trump Pensacola rally

[Update 12/9: While yesterday I received upwards of a 100 retweets and likes of this, I am not aware that anyone actually did tweeting. This blog entry and Blanketing AL twitter accounts strongly urge massive direct tweeting to AL voters and set out how to do it duing the next three days for anyone who is motivated to do the same.]

Trump's Pensacola rally today should be a trigger for sending #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones this weekend.

Who wants to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones while Trump rallies in Pensacola? https://t.co/r2JqCtSQRW #DougJonesForSenate #digdoug
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 8, 2017

For guidance on how to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones this weekend, please see Blanketing AL twitter accounts.

What you basically need to do is find an Alabama Twitter account with followers you want to send tweets to, compose a tweet message you wish to send to those followers, and start tweeting.

Blanketing AL twitter accounts gives instructions about how to tweet efficiently on a laptop. I don't use a cellphone to send tweets, so I don't know how efficiently it can be done on a cellphone.

Perhaps what Trump has tweeted about the rally will inspire you on what you want to tweet in your #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones.

Big crowd expected today in Pensacola, Florida, for a Make America Great Again speech. We have done so much in so short a period of time...and yet are planning to do so much more! See you there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017

If you want to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones, tell me where you live and I will help you find an Alabama Twitter account follower list to send tweets to.

Monday, December 4, 2017

Blanketing AL twitter accounts

[Update 12/9: Yesterday I received upwards of a 100 retweets and likes about direct tweeting to AL voters during Trump's Pensacola rally per blog entry Trump's Pensacola rally. I am not aware that anyone actually did tweeting. This blog entry and Trump's Pensacola rally strongly urge massive direct tweeting to AL voters and set out how to do it during the next three days for anyone who is motivated.]

[Rev. 12/6/17]
This is to push for Doug Jones supporters to "blanket" Alabama twitter accounts with pro-Doug tweets during the next six days.

I can't "blanket" Alabama twitter accounts by myself, but I am doing tweeting that illustrates how this can be done.

If you scroll through my Tweets & replies, you will see a large number of individually addressed tweets that say as follows:

Vote for Doug Jones because Trump and Republicans have failed average Americans on health care and taxes. https://t.co/SpzjvNtcAR
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 4, 2017

Although the above embedding of my tweet does not show the text of the link, the recipient sees the text, which is the following tweet of one Will Slaughter of Milwaukee WI.

Alabama Republicans should also vote for Doug Jones to punish the GOP Congress for its overall fecklessness, between failing to articulate a sensible health care reform agenda & a tax plan that will raise taxes for many wage earners.#DougJonesForSenate
— Will Slaughter (@MilwaukeeBonds) November 13, 2017

To find persons in Alabama to send my tweets to, I have used follower lists of other Twitter accounts. In sending my tweets thus far, I have used these follower lists: https://twitter.com/IndivisibleALD6/followers; https://twitter.com/huntsvillealcoc/following; https://twitter.com/GuntersvilleCoC/followers

For my tweets, I included Will Slaughter's tweet for its substance, and also because he is a native of Alabama, and his father is Bill Slaughter, who lives in Mountain Brook, was once in the Alabama House of Representatives as a Republican, to my knowledge continues a Republican, and is a prominent name in Alabama.

I sent my tweets using a laptop. Except for the addressee, the tweets I sent were all the same.

I did my tweeting by getting the tweet message on my mouse clipboard, and then, starting with the first person on the follower list I was using (e.g. https://twitter.com/IndivisibleALD6/followers ), I did as follows:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.

I limited myself mainly to persons on the follower list who showed they lived in Alabama. When I went to the new tab in Step 3 above, I could decide whether I wanted to send a tweet. If I decided not to send a tweet, I skipped to Step 7 and proceeded from there.

Tweeting as described above, it is fairly easy to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour.

I have never tweeted using a cellphone, and I don't know whether similar efficient sending of tweets can be done on a cellphone. I am interested in learning how well a cellphone works for doing the above described tweeting.

Depending how many Doug Jones supporters will do the above kind of tweeting, hundreds of thousands of tweets can be sent to Alabama voters in the next six days.

All Doug Jones volunteers need to do is pick a Twitter account follower list they want to tweet to, compose the tweet message they want to send, and start tweeting.

If you tweet, consider telling other tweeters about your tweeting, by sending a "general" tweet that says what follower list you used, your tweet message, and about how many tweets you sent. I suggest you tweet use the hashtags #DougJonesForSenate and #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones.

Questions, comments, discussion
There is a Google group I have created for questions, comments, or discussion. Please join the Google group. See Google group.

Friday, December 1, 2017

Let's make a deal

Let's make a deal for sending tweets to AL voters in your city or town.

Here's what you need to do.

First, find a Twitter account in your geographical area that has followers that you think would be worthwhile for me to send tweets to in support of Doug Jones. The Twitter account could be that of the high school in your area, or the Twitter account of your local chamber of commerce, or the Twitter account of your city or town which has a good list of followers, or some other Twitter account that would have lots of people in your city or town as followers.

Then pick a tweet from the below list that you would like me to send to the followers of the Twitter account you have selected.

1. Help save AL from Roy Moore by tweeting to get out the vote for DougJones in [name of your city or town to be unserted].https://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2017/09/jones-gotv.html

2. Tweet for Alabama to elect Doug Jones to reduce polarization in our country and get Congress working properly. http://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2017/09/tweeting-for-doug-jones.html

3. Please tweet with us to help the Doug Jones campaign get people to do phone banking for him during next 12 days. Thanks. http://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2017/10/phone-bankers.html

Next, tell me what Twitter account for your city or town you have selected, and which tweet you want me to send to followers of the Twitter account.

I will then proceed to send tweets to persons on the follower list. I will tell you how many tweets I have sent, and how many page views of the link in the tweet resulted from recipients clicking on the link.

I will also report that information on the #DougJonesForSenate hashtag.

What do you think of that deal? Please make that deal with me.