PTP Blog: December 2007

Political Inclination of MySpace users:

Seems like the MySpace folks are working to build a case against the idea that MySpace users are politically disengaged.  A recent survey

. . .revealed a few key facts: that MySpace's young user base is more politically engaged and active than the U.S. population at large, that they tend to be politically independent, and that they plan to vote in the 2008 election.

Read the rest - it is quite interesting at MySpace touts early success with political polling initiative

Does your database know which side of street you're on?

One of the biggest challenges organizers face with a database is generating good, usable lists for organizers to use when talking with people door to door.  Setting aside (for now) the challenges related to quality of information on the lists, I'm interested in how you all deal with the other challenges related to generating good lists:

  • how do you generate lists so that your organizers and canvassers don't have to go back and forth across streets because your database printed the street numbers consecutively?
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