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Title: COS 2020 Impact Report

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Created: 2020-12-22 10:37:54

Updated: 2021-12-22 19:00:00

Published: 2020-12-22 02:00:00

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**5850 San Felipe, Suite 580, Houston, TX 77057**

**512-487-5525**

[[http://www.cosaction.com/georgia|**COSAction.com/Georgia**]]



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On January 5th, Georgia 

voters will head to the 

polls to determine who will 

fill their seats in the U.S. Senate. 

The results of this election could 

pave the way for a tidal wave of 

progressive policies and agendas, 

like packing the Supreme Court, 

stripping Americans of their 

Second Amendment rights and 

reversing tax cuts.\\
We must act swiftly to slow what 

could become a rapid erosion of our 

constitutional freedoms over the 

next four years.\\
That’s why we’re unleashing our 4.7 

million-patriot citizen activist army 

for a groundbreaking get out the 

vote mission to target the 521,592 

low propensity like-minded voters 

in Georgia. These are registered 

voters who vote in the presidential 

election cycles but rarely vote in 

midterms or special elections unless 

they are specifically turned out. 

To give you an idea of the impact 

these voters can make, you should 

know that they make up 13% of 

the total voters who came out in 

Georgia in the 2018 election. This 

is more than enough to tip the 

scales of this runoff.\\
We’ve partnered with legendary 

pollster and Georgia native Robert 

Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group (the 

most accurate pollster in 2016, 

2018, and 2020) once again to 

model a groundbreaking peer-to-

peer get out the vote strategy to 

reach these 520,000+ like-minded 

low-propensity voters. These 

voters cannot be reached through 

traditional political ads, especially 

during the holiday season. Our 

“adopt-a-voter” program includes 

one to one messaging, phone calls, 

and texted videos  tailored to reach 

each subset of these voters about 

the issues that will motivate them 

to turnout. \\
COS Action is the only organization 

large enough to pull off this kind of 

mission, and we like our odds: using 

the exact same strategy, we were 

able to effectively impact the voter 

turnout in more than 250 races this 

election cycle in 16 target states. See 

the next page for details about our 

General Election GOTV success.\\
We can’t take this election for 

granted. The stakes are too high. 

The Atlanta Journal (AJC) reports 

that Stacy Abrams alone has already 

raised $34.5 million and is “funneling 

a large chunk of the money into 

helping the Democratic candidates”.

**GEORGIA **

//CROSSROADS//

**We’re unleashing our 4.7 million-patriot citizen **

**activist army for a groundbreaking get out **

**the vote mission to target the 521,592 low **

**propensity like-minded voters in Georgia. **

**Perfectly Positioned to Impact\\
Georgia’s Runoff Election**

//1//



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//COS Action partnered with the Most \\
Trusted and Accurate Pollster in America//

**COSA GOT OUT**

**THE VOTE**

**COSA FOCUSED**

**EFFORTS**

//2//

Most get-out-the-vote 

(GOTV) efforts preach 

to the choir. They spend 

millions of dollars purchasing 

advertisements on news shows, talk 

radio, and podcasts to reach people 

who already plan to vote. These 

Americans are politically engaged, 

and the GOTV campaigns do little 

(if anything) to impact the elections. \\
We improved on the strategy 

of traditional GOTV efforts. In 

partnership with the most accurate 

pollster for the 2016 and 2018 

elections, Robert Cahaly of the 

Trafalgar Group, we focused our 

GOTV efforts on like minded 

low-propensity voters. This key 

demographic was registered to 

vote but hadn’t voted in more 

than one general election since 

1992. They don’t watch the news, 

so they wouldn’t be influenced 

by traditional GOTV efforts, but 

they comprised an astounding 12 

percent of total voters. \\
So, we reached out to our friend 

Robert Cahaly to equip our 4.7 

million citizen-activist army with 

the right tools to create a powerful 

peer-to-peer GOTV strategy. 

This is the most effective way to 

reach like- minded, low-propensity 

voters, and we launched a four-part 

effort to do just that:

**1.**  We purchased voter record data, 

identified which voters were like 

minded to us, and then obtained 

their contact information while 

confirming that they were still 

residents of the state.\\
**2.**  We polled them with Cahaly’s 

methodologies, allowing us to 

customize messaging that would 

motivate them to get out and vote.\\
**3.**  We recruited volunteers from 

our base of COS Action activists to 

call and text the like-minded voters. \\
**4.**  We designed powerful 

videos and phone scripts for 

our volunteers to utilize in their 

outreach to voters. \\
**5.**  Each targeted voter was tracked 

and contacted multiple times to 

encourage them to get out to the 

polls by Election Day. \\
**In total, an astounding 2.9 million **

**contacts were made in the days **

**leading up to the election.\\
**In our post-election analysis, 

we determined that this 

groundbreaking strategy, paired 

with the massive force of the 

grassroots army of COS Action, 

played an effective role in over 250 

elections across the country at the 

state and national level. 

After pulling voter records, we 

created a file of registered voters 

who had not voted in more than 

one general election since 1992. 

The numbers were astounding! 

We quickly realized that these 

voters accounted for 5%-16% 

of the total voter population in 

the previous general election. 

Getting them out to vote could 

easily make the difference in this 

election, as you can see from 

this chart below.

416,487

613,977

317,167

511,453

152,581

39,178

1,446,586

**16,081,748**

4,741,564

6,166,708

2,604,657

4,822,271

2,976,150

501,822

9,501,617

**128,838,731**

9%

10%

12%

11%

5%

8%

15%

**12%**

**NC**

**PA**

**AZ**

**MI**

**WI**

**MT**

**FL**

**US**

**STATES**

**RATIO**

**VOTERS**

//IN 2016//

**LAPSED VOTERS**

//IN STATE//

This is proof positive that COS 

Action is a force to be reckoned 

with. Our efforts had a significant 

impact in races around the country 

up and down the ballot.



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The Democrats incorrectly predicted a 

“Blue Wave” in the 2020 general election. After 

investing hundreds of millions of dollars in this election, 

and contrary to most polls, they were not able to flip any 

state legislative chambers. They actually lost ground in both 

state legislatures and the U.S. House, and they haven’t yet 

been able to take the Senate. This puts the GOP in a very 

strong position for the next decade as they control much 

of the redistricting in 2021. Here are some notable outcomes:

**AL**

**FL**

**IA**

**KS\\
KY**

**ME**

**MN**

**MT **

**NC**

**NH\\
OH**

**PA\\
SC**

**TX**

**WI**

**WV**

**TOTAL**

N/A

-

2

4\\
8

10

4

11

4

50

2\\
3

17\\
17

13\\
19

**164**

6

16

2\\
3\\
5

-

1\\
1

8

-\\
-

9\\
4

23

5\\
3

**86**

1

-

1

-

1\\
1

-

1\\
1

-\\
-\\
-

1

-\\
-

3\\
**8**

N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A

1

-

1

N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A\\
N/A

1

**3**

**STATES STATE LEGISLATIVE **

//GOP VICTORIES//

**US HOUSE**

//GOP VICTORIES//

**US SENATE**

//GOP VICTORIES//

**GOVERNORS**

//GOP VICTORIES//

**HOW THE **

**PREDICTED **

**“BLUE WAVE” **

**WAS MORE **

**LIKE A “BLUE **

**FLUSH”.**

//3//



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Our work in Georgia has already begun, 

**but we need your support to be able **

**to reach all the voters necessary to truly make a difference in this election.** 

A generous supporter of our Get Out the Vote work has put forth a matching 

challenge for any donation made to COS Action right now, up to $100,000. The 

impact of your gift will be doubled, matched dollar for dollar.

[[https://secure.anedot.com/convention-of-states-action-cosaction/georgia-cc|**DONATE ONLINE HERE**]]

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**Click below to support **

**COS Action’s 501C(4) **

**efforts now**

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**Click below to make a **

**tax-deductible 501(c)(3) **

**contribution now**

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