The West Virginia primary is this Tuesday, May 13th. There are now only half a dozen contests remaining, and Barack is just 33 delegates away from securing a majority of all pledged delegates.
The West Virginia primary has been an uphill battle, but we've built a broad based grassroots operation there, backed by a dozen field offices and over 60 staffers on the ground. From the beginning, we've made a commitment to compete in every state for every vote, and even as we near the end of this long primary campaign we haven't let up. Over the next four days, we're asking grassroots phonebankers across the country to make calls to voters in West Virginia to help Get Out The Vote for Barack.
On Thursday, West Virginia Deputy State Director Rudi Shenk spoke to the National Call Team about our goals for Tuesday's primary, and the impact that your calls can have:
We're competing vigorously for every single delegate [in West Virginia] ...There is a clear, clear goal and mission: to gather up as many delegates as possible. The way these delegates work is that if you push the needle from 23% to 26% support in a particular area, or from 39% to 43% in a particular Congressional district, the dividends are great. In fact, we stand to gain a lot of delegates here by our activities. What happens in the next four days on the phone is critical. Saturday and Sunday, Monday and on into Tuesday, what we do on the phones is a complement to what we're seeing going on here on the ground. We have a ton of out of state volunteers coming in, we have over 60 staffers on the ground who will be knocking on doors and doing other field activities over the next three or four days.We're seeing what the polls don't suggest, which is that when we knock on doors, when we call folks, they are thrilled to get a call from us. They are thrilled to be part of this process. Many people that we're talking to have never been part of a presidential primary.
We're competing vigorously for every single delegate [in West Virginia] ...There is a clear, clear goal and mission: to gather up as many delegates as possible. The way these delegates work is that if you push the needle from 23% to 26% support in a particular area, or from 39% to 43% in a particular Congressional district, the dividends are great. In fact, we stand to gain a lot of delegates here by our activities.
What happens in the next four days on the phone is critical. Saturday and Sunday, Monday and on into Tuesday, what we do on the phones is a complement to what we're seeing going on here on the ground. We have a ton of out of state volunteers coming in, we have over 60 staffers on the ground who will be knocking on doors and doing other field activities over the next three or four days.
We're seeing what the polls don't suggest, which is that when we knock on doors, when we call folks, they are thrilled to get a call from us. They are thrilled to be part of this process. Many people that we're talking to have never been part of a presidential primary.
Rudi also answered questions about the issues that most concern West Virginians, and told the story of the last presidential candidate to campaign in West Virginia: John F. Kennedy. You can listen to the full audio from the conference call here:
West Virginia has 28 delegates at stake on Tuesday. After four months and 47 contests, we're just 33 delegates away from our goal of securing the most pledged delegates, and 159 delegates away from locking up the Democratic nomination. In these next four days, you can help us close the gap, and bring us one step closer to the goal we've all been working towards for over a year now.
It only takes a minute to get started. The West Virginia GOTV calling campaign runs today through Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM EST.
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