http://winningconnections.com Strategic Voter Contact & Grassroots Advocacy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:34:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Winning Connections won more awards for live telephone campaigns than any other firm at the recent American Association of Political Consultants’ (AAPC) 2008 Pollie Awards. The AAPC is the world’s largest organization of political and public policy professionals and the Pollie Awards are widely acknowledged as the “Oscars of political ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2008/04/03/winning-connections-wins-most-live-call-pollie-awards-in-2008/ Is this really an off-year? That’s news to us. Winning Connections has had a busy 2007 so far, helping candidates win, organizations advance their agenda, adding seasoned staff and finding ways to do what we do more effectively. Live Interactive Calls ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2007/05/15/winning-connections-helps-nutter-win-philadelphia-primary/ Congress: Intensive Voter Contact Effort Gives Tester Win and Democrats Congressional Majority Jon Tester’s hard fought campaign, with a winning margin of 2,847 votes (less than one percent) resulted from an intensive voter contact effort. Winning Connections began making voter ID calls in Montana in early April. Later Winning Connections ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2006/11/09/winning-connections-helps-jon-tester-and-others-take-back-the-congress/ Phones and Technology Help Elect First Muslim Congressional Candidate and Protect Civil Rights and the Environment with Patch-Through Programs Winning Elections Is What We Do Every year, Winning Connections strategically uses phones and technology in hundreds of races to identify, persuade and mobilize voters by engaging them in dialogue. This year, we ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2006/10/09/winning-connections-continues-to-break-new-ground/ We’ll report the results soon and they will be posted on our Web site. http://winningconnections.com/archives/2006/10/06/thank-you/ Winning Connections Takes 14 “Pollie” Awards Winning Connections Outperforms Phone Competitors for the “Oscars of Political Consulting” Washington, DC — Winning Connections won fourteen awards for its phone campaigns from the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) at the premier annual event for political professionals. This year’s competition, held this ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2006/03/24/winning-connections-takes-14-%e2%80%9cpollie%e2%80%9d-awards/ On November 8th, Winning Connections capped a winning season with big victories in CA, NJ, and VA. In New Jersey, we recruited the grassroots network that delivered Jon Corzine the governor’s seat. Our work on behalf of teachers, school employees, and the UFCW in California helped defeat Schwarzenegger’s ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2005/11/15/winning-connections-scores-big/ As hurricane Rita menaced the Texas coast, ACORN called on Winning Connections to help evacuate disadvantaged seniors from the Houston area. Within hours, we set up an automated message to tell seniors how they could arrange a ride out of the city by calling an ACORN hotline. ACORN’s ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2005/09/27/helping-in-houston/ WC took on a challenging campaign in Cobb County, Georgia. Our client was Citizens for Cobb, a coalition of concerned citizens, business and community leaders. The group was seeking approval of a one cent increase in the local sales tax to pay for much needed road improvements, ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2005/09/26/wc-beats-the-odds-in-cobb-county/ Winning Connections was a co-sponsor of the “Politics to Go” Conference at George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet. Conference panelists described new ways to harness mobile communications technologies like cell phones and mp3 players to reach and mobilize voters. Winning Connections is currently working ... http://winningconnections.com/archives/2005/08/31/politics-to-go/