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Obama's Vote-Getting Tactics Struggle to Find the Uninsured

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The hunt for the uninsured in Broward County got underway one recent afternoon when 41 canvassers, armed with electronic maps on Samsung tablets, set off through working-class neighborhoods to peddle the Affordable Care Act door to door. Four hours later, they had made contact with 2,623 residents and signed up exactly 25 people.

Many of their targets, people identified on sophisticated computer lists generated in Washington as unlikely to have health insurance, had moved away. Some were not home. Many said they already had insurance through Medicare, their parents or a job. A few were hostile at the mere mention of President Obama's health care law.

"We're going to repeal that," one man said gruffly as he shut the door in the face of a canvasser, Nancy Morwin, 58, a retired social worker.

Such are the limits of microtargeting the uninsured as groups supporting the Obama administration take to the streets on behalf of the president's most important domestic initiative. The nationwide effort is modeled on Mr. Obama's successful voter turnout machines in 2008 and 2012, but in this case the task of finding Americans without health insurance and signing them up is a painfully slow grind.


   A map of areas targeted by health insurance canvassers in Broward County, Fla. Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Although the administration expects many enrollees to make their own way to the government's health care website or the state exchanges, the door-to-door effort is aimed at people without computers, email addresses or the wherewithal to show up at health fairs and other enrollment events at Kmarts or grocery stores. Officials say the labor-intensive targeting program, while frustrating, could eventually add thousands of people to the rolls of the insured.

The campaign is staffed by organizations deploying thousands of paid and volunteer canvassers across the country. Planned Parenthood, one of the most aggressive groups, has raised millions of dollars for the effort. It is paying about 400 workers like Ms. Morwin $12 an hour. They are knocking on an average of 18,000 doors a day in eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/us/proven-models-break-down-in-search-for-the-uninsured.html?hp&_r=0

Their all in south Florida Al Gore re-count country trying to sign up anyone that might listen to them. Not much luck according to the article!!

Quote from: redbeard on February 19, 2014, 05:02:50 PM
Their all in south Florida Al Gore re-count country trying to sign up anyone that might listen to them. Not much luck according to the article!!

What do you expect they are trying to sign up people who have been dead for twenty seven years or are cartoon characters.

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on February 19, 2014, 05:05:17 PM
What do you expect they are trying to sign up people who have been dead for twenty seven years or are cartoon characters.

It is such a well loved program that after 4 years they have to go door to door to try and beg their own base to come out and support it.

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on February 19, 2014, 05:05:17 PM
What do you expect they are trying to sign up people who have been dead for twenty seven years or are cartoon characters.

This is their main community organizing tool:

Quote from: taxed on February 19, 2014, 05:14:21 PM
This is their main community organizing tool:

I thought their web site was suppose to cure all ills but they have degenerated to a desperate attempt to sign people up threw door to door canvasing! What a sorry sack of crap they have put on this country!!

Quote from: redbeard on February 19, 2014, 05:52:37 PM
I thought their web site was suppose to cure all ills but they have degenerated to a desperate attempt to sign people up threw door to door canvasing! What a sorry sack of crap they have put on this country!!

Their site?  Where do you think they get all the new voter names!!