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Dear Movement Voter Project (MVP) Congratulations and envious (but still organizing) in Iowa. You said it yourself: "We cannot say this enough" (borrowing heavily from your substack).

Election results were victories for abortion rights, not necessarily reflective of a D ticket; it " was not necessarily a meaningful bellwether for 2024":  As MVP, Chop Wood, Carry Water, and others wrote about: Off year elections are smaller, more educated motivated largely by abortion rights,than in Prez election years. Next November will largely be determined by lower-propensity voters in both parties. (See RuralOrganizing.org. and MVP.) What will work to encourage others to become willing and able and motivated to vote for Biden and other Democratic candidates even when they more disillusioned and upset than I have seen in decades of politics and organizing.

I have yet to read any analysis how TV ads resulted in Tuesday victories. What makes more sense is local organizing . MVP and others write: "Trusted messengers will be the difference-makers to engage tens of millions of voters to tip the scales in this excruciating and existentially- important election." I only disagree to add that messengers have to be identified and cultivated, esp. in this overheated world of ideas.

Not just messengers, but the message needs to be refined and magnified and amplified (think MAGA). Not just messengers and message, but the medium is just as important when millions of well -meaning Americans are turning off all news, not reading any news, and/or distrustful of all media.

Guess who wins when more of the world stops reading the news and becomes cynical of all politicians and governments? Who wins with this view of the media and the world?

Thanks again to MVP and others.

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Thank you Ralph, and thank you for all you're doing in Iowa!

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