Press Update: This Week in Michigan Voter Outreach
For immediate release
Contact: dghanem@communitychange.org
Hi there! This is the second iteration of this weekly update on the latest voter outreach efforts in Michigan. You can find last week’s here.
As of Oct 8, 2024, together with our local Michigan partners we’ve:
- Knocked 213,505 doors, reaching 322,783 people
- Made 559,000 phone calls
- 82,925 candidate IDs, 49,782 of those positive for Harris
If you’d like to join a canvass, or other voter outreach event, or get in contact with Michigan voters, please reach me at dghanem@communitychange.org.
The last week in Michigan…
Michigan Liberation Action Fund launched their ‘Jingle for Justice’ creative contest to help boost Michigan Supreme Court voter turnout. Creators can submit their jingles until Wednesday, October 16 – and then the public gets to vote.
Michigan United Action hosted a Taking Back Our Power volunteer training and canvass to reach voters in Southfield who are fed up with high electric bills and poor service.
Upcoming this week…
This second October weekend, Michigan United Action will be out in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, and Saginaw with plans to knock 15k doors. And Michigan Liberation Action Fund will be out in Macomb County with plans to knock 4k doors.
On Thursday, October 10, Michigan United Action will host its weekly Virtual House Party to connect with community members who want to make a difference this election.
Look out for a collaboration between Michigan Liberation Action Fund and TikTok and Youtube creator Darryl Vega who will be on the ground in Detroit this week learning the ropes of canvassing and talking to voters about the issues that matter.
Hot state news
Michigan’s ‘It’s sooo simple’ early voting campaign rolls out new digital tools for voters, State Scoop, Keely Quinlan
The 10 Races That Will Determine Control of the Senate, Time, Nik Popli
Where Things Stand Ahead of the U.S. Senate Debate, Corinne Moore, WLNS
Arab American voters in Michigan could have a big voice in the election, NPR, Leila Fadel
It’s a close race for Michigan. These factors could decide it for Harris or Trump, The Public’s Radio, Majd Al-Waheidi
Michigan by the numbers, with 26 days until Election Day
“Vice President Harris holds a slight lead over former President Trump in the latest survey of battleground state Michigan, released Monday. Harris had a 2.6 point lead, 46.8 percent to 44.2 percent, over the former president among Michigan’s likely voters, according to a poll from The Detroit News and WDIV-TV.” (The Hill)
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About Community Change Action Voters
For almost 20 years, Community Change Action and our political committee, Community Change Voters, have redefined electoral organizing by focusing on a north star that usually goes ignored by traditional campaigns: Engaging hard-to-find, hard-to-reach Black, Latino, Native, AAPI, immigrant, women, and young voters to turn out for candidates that align with their values. This work has ramped up to a historical high in the past few months as November fast approaches, focusing on states with key swing districts where voters of color have been consequential to election results.The scale of Community Change Action/Voters’ Harris candidate ID’s is the largest from an independent expenditure program.
For the 2024 cycle, Community Change Action and Community Change Voters are investing the majority of our efforts into Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, co-implementing and co-strategizing with grassroots organizations with established community relationships as we run voter engagement programs with high-impact to our voters. Through this work, we alongside our partners plan to hold more than 2 million conversations with voters in our target states through multiple channels, including volunteer and paid canvass, phone calls, relational voter contact, mail, events, paid digital, and influencers
About our Michigan program
In Michigan, Community Change Action/Voters are focused on electing Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as President and Vice President of the United States, Rep. Elissa Slotkin to the U.S. Senate and defeating Mike Rogers, electing progressive candidates to the third, seventh, eighth, and tenth congressional districts, and securing Michigan’s 15 electoral votes.
To meet our goals of knocking almost 250,000 doors and making 1,175,000 calls to target voters in Michigan, we’re working with grassroots organizations Michigan United Action, a statewide organization of leaders working for economic and racial justice, and Michigan Liberation Action Fund, a statewide network of people and organizations organizing to end the criminalization of Black families and communities of color in Michigan. These organizations do deep voter and community outreach and organizing work in some of the most hotly-contested districts in the state.
You can learn more about our program and our partners’ programs here.
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