Subject: RE: Shaping an upcoming DCorps McCain survey 4pm
From: "Andrew Baumann" <[email-masked]>
To: "Darryl Lockett" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], "David Brock ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, "Susan McCue" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], "Caitlin Hurley @ American Progress Action" <[email-masked]>, "Andrew Baumann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:17:57 -0400

All,

Stan, Susan, Tara and the former PM team and I had a brief call today to
discuss the McCain survey that we aim to field early next week.  Here is
a quick summary of what we discussed.  If any of you have thoughts or
suggestions on what to include in this survey please feel free to send
them along.  If people think it is worthwhile we could also set up a
follow-up call later in the week.

The Battleground:

We discussed adding Minnesota and North Carolina to the battleground and
decided to include Minnesota but not North Carolina.  That leaves our
battleground as follows:

*	Minnesota 
*	Iowa 
*	Wisconsin 
*	Pennsylvania 
*	Colorado 
*	New Mexico 
*	Michigan 
*	Ohio 
*	New Hampshire 
*	Virginia 
*	Nevada 
*	Missouri 
*	Nebraska's 1st Congressional District 

Content

We decided to draft hits on the following topics.  We won't be able to
include all of them in the survey, but these are hits we want to
consider:

*	Energy

	*	Offshore drilling (flip-flop angle, Bush/oil company
angle/environmental angle)
	*	Support for nuclear powr
	*	Comprehensive hit on support for oil companies - updated
lobbyist ties, drilling, gas tax, support for tax breaks

*	Taxes (based on recent back and forth - tax cuts for the wealthy
and not the middle class etc)
*	Women and Abortion

	*	Pure abortion and judges hit
	*	Comprehensive women's issues hit

*	Health care (with focus on McCain plan causing people who get
coverage from employers to lose it)
*	Security

	*	Revise our draft attack from last time to test endless
war/warmonger with and without the draft in it
	*	An Iraq is making us less secure hit
	*	An opposition to diplomacy hit

*	Economy

	*	Revise our middle class populism hits
	*	A revised economic fundamentals hit

We'll also be looking at a bunch of recent surveys, public and private,
to inform our choice of hits to test. 

Please let us know if you have additions to this list.

Andrew

 

 

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From: Darryl Lockett 
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:56 AM
To: [email-masked]'; [email-masked]';
'David Brock ([email-masked])'; 'John Podesta'; 'Susan McCue'
Cc: Andrew Baumann; [email-masked]';
[email-masked]'; 'Caitlin Hurley @ American Progress Action'
Subject: RE: Shaping an upcoming DCorps McCain survey 4pm

Below are the finalized details of the call. Unfortunately scheduling
conflicts will not allow everyone to be on the call but we want to move
forward with the 4pm call. 

DCorps McCain Survey Call

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

4:00pm

The call-in number will be (712) 432-0150. Passcode: 716391.

The call should last should no more than 30 mins. Andrew  will send a
read out for the benefit of those who will be unable to call in. I look
forward to connecting with many of you today. Thanks so much.

Best regards,

Darryl

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From: Darryl Lockett 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:03 PM
To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]; David
Brock ([email-masked]); John Podesta; Susan McCue
Cc: Andrew Baumann; [email-masked]; [email-masked];
Caitlin Hurley @ American Progress Action
Subject: Shaping an upcoming DCorp McCain survey

All,

Democracy Corp will be fielding a McCain survey beginning next Monday.
Stan would set up a call to talk about the contents of the survey. Are
any of you available to connect tomorrow afternoon around 4pm? Please
let me know if this time works. It would be great to have your input. I
will send out the call in number once the time is finalized by the
majority. Thanks

Best regards,

Darryl

 

 

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