How an app developer helped Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make history
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Seeing this article about Reach and its effectiveness was really refreshing; talking to random people on the street and organically generating interest was exactly the kind of volunteering I wanted to do.
> I’d like to think that there was an impact, but you can't see who votes for who. I think it played a big role, especially in bringing out folks that had not voted before.
> After we won, we looked back, and Reach accounted for about 10 percent of our total positive IDs, or in other words, pledged voters. Reach was only deployed in the last three weeks before the primary. And the difference in the number of votes between Crowley and Ocasio was about 15 percent. So, I’d like to think that there was an impact, but you can't see who votes for who. I think it played a big role, especially in bringing out folks that had not voted before.
Keep in mind that ACO was seen as a massive underdog to the incumbent. A 10 percent increase in identified pledged voters is huge in a primary.
I didn't say this.
His quote (with or without the context of the paragraph) necessarily means that his app's impact is not understood. If all we have are self-quotes, that's weak support, too.
>When Ocasio-Cortez faced off against 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the Democratic primaries in June, the app played a pivotal role in her upset victory, according to Sussan.