One volunteer who phone-banked from Brooklyn several times in October was assigned to make calls to registered Democrats in Florida. The main goal was to make sure these swing-state Democrats had received mail-in ballots. But the volunteer was also tasked with asking for whom the voter intended to cast his or her ballot—information that would be relayed to the analytics team. The majority of respondents either said outright that they weren’t going to vote for Clinton or declined to say whom they would support, which surprised the volunteer. After all, these were registered Democrats. More
