Data driven tactics were minimal. It seemed like the Democratic Party had some good lists that they were targeting, but it wasn’t certain how up to date those lists were. An example was targeting voters who were infrequent voters who had voted in the general election, and making sure they vote in the runoff. But there were differing accounts on how good the Democratic Party knocking lists were.
No organization seemed to be doing the deep canvassing of the style that BCV does. This is bad because this meant organizations (and volunteers) did not have good local information, and were not as helpful as they could have been to the voters on the ground. This is why one of the most important contributions BCV made to the effort in Savannah was to provide the flyer Tyler created with all the valuable information in one place in easily legible. This was an example of something that no organization had done, and was really demonstrative of the problem of clarity and focus that a lot of these organizations seem to have.
It really felt like a lot of groups were simply doing whatever they knew to do, rather than thinking about what specifically is the most effective thing to be doing. Generally everyone was interested in targeting or focusing efforts, but there seemed to be nobody clearly providing the data needed to do this. Our best guesses based on publicly available data were as good as anyone else’s.