One statistic that rolls around in my head that I’ve never talked about on here is that the total number of people who ever made calls for Bernie in 2020...

Right off the bat, let me just say, we had the best call program of any campaign by a mile. We put out vastly higher volume on IDs and calls (so much so that other campaigns didn’t make public goals), had excellent targeting, training, public awareness. It was, the gold standard.

But the reason I mention it, is because someone once asked me “what could 50,000 DSA members really do to help Bernie? They’re important, but it’s a drop in the bucket” and I think of this statistic: the total number of people who *ever* logged into the dialer was 16,000

What does that mean? What it meant in reality is that a huge percentage of calls were made by like, 250 people. Maybe 25% of all calls. Maybe another 500 made the next 25%, and the rest were made by the 15,000 or so people who logged on between 1-3 times.

Those percentages aren’t exact, but what I mean to say is that the level of *consistent* participation in the campaign was, while comparatively very high vs others, still much lower than what I believe people realize.

I say this not to criticize the campaign, or DSA - the level of participation we saw was still unprecedented- but to suggest that the next time we run a candidate, even a slightly more militant commitment amongst leftists could produce outsized results in say, Iowa.

Because while left politics on the whole is going to requires strikes and organizing involving millions, key elections in small states or congressional districts can often require only hundreds, if not dozens, to push us over the edge.

Also everyone who ever made a call you’re my hero thank you for your service I truly miss tweeting out your insane call numbers every day