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Meet Gain Power

Advertising, Democratic Platform Issues, Pandemic

Amy Pritchard Launches Gain Power to Connect Left-Leaning Professionals

Do you want to enact political change in 2020? Meet Gain Power. You can do more than vote on Election Day! Blue Wave Voiceover recently spoke with Amy Pritchard, the founder of GAIN POWER, a new online collaborative community for creative change-makers, campaigns, socially conscious businesses, influencers, activists, disrupters, creative artists & more. Blue Wave Voiceover is proud to be listed in the directory at Gain Power as a progressive voiceover collaborator available to work on political ads, mission-driven spots and Democratic content. 

“We’ve built a platform to facilitate professional networking, marketing, jobs, storytelling, professional development, shared events, resources, and market space for the people working to gain power in US electoral and legislative politics,” Amy says.

Freelancing From AnywhereYou can use Gain Power to find professional opportunities in the political sphere. “There are so many different ways to be impactful,” says Amy. “It just depends on your skills and interests.” If you have skills in graphic design, photography, illustration, coding, writing, social media, data and more, you can be an asset to a political campaign. Your passion also helps!

Why Now

GAIN POWER is ready to take part in what will be a historic election – on the federal, state and local levels. Campaigns are spending more money than ever – and voters are dealing with unprecedented issues. “2020 is a perfect storm of unique and historic moments colliding,” says Amy, who first launched the organization Democratic GAIN in 2003. GAIN POWER is the group’s next generation and new iteration.

“We have a Presidential campaign happening at the same time as our census and preceding the next redistricting. We are operating during one of the largest global pandemics in our lifetime which has already crashed our economy and raised unemployment to levels this country hasn’t seen since the great depression,” she continues. “All the while being led by the most divisive President our country has ever had.”

Democrats and progressives can make real change in 2020 – but getting through to voters may be a challenge. 

Important Political Issues in 2020

Amy predicts that a number of issues will be important to voters in the 2020 election. “I think if we get COVID-19 under control, then managing rebuilding our economy will dominate the debates and discussion with health care closely following that,” she says. “It will be interesting to see how voters feel about progressive issues like Medicare for all – raising the minimum wage, earned paid sick leave, a universal minimum income or any other issues change as a result of the fall out from this pandemic,” she continues. Amy also predicts that student debt and climate change will be influential issues in the election but notes that no group is a monolith. Differences and priorities among voters of various backgrounds shouldn’t be overlooked.

Reaching Voters with Effective Ads

To connect with voters in this ever-changing political landscape, campaign ads (and the people behind them) will need to be innovative and creative.  “Good storytelling with a powerful message and messenger is the basic foundation,” Amy explains. But to really add a hook and take your ad to the next level, you should “add humor, heroism, tragedy or any other strong emotion.” 

“There is so much content in every media competing for voter attention right now,” she says. 

You can find more information about GAIN POWER at its website: https://www.gainpower.org/

Filed Under: Advertising, Democratic Platform Issues, Pandemic

How Will the Election be Affected by Coronavirus

Blog, Democratic Platform Issues, Pandemic

Political Messaging During a Pandemic

All across the country, large cities and small communities are taking the advice of government officials and the CDC to restrict large gatherings to try to stem the spread of the Coronavirus. As more and more towns follow suit, the question of how this will affect the 2020 election cycle — and workers, from public servants right on through the gig economy — is ever prevalent. Of course, we are in the early days of these bans, but we don’t know how drastic the effects will be in the long run for political campaigns or how the election will be affected by Coronavirus. If rallies, events, and canvassing are not possible, it is important to consider the problems that might arise and how we can tackle them head-on so information can reach voters.

No doubt campaigns for elections all over the country are putting their thinking caps on to figure out a way to get important messages about their candidates and causes out to those who need to hear them. With restrictions on movement and quarantining, many voters will be getting to know their candidates through political commercials and radio spots and robocalling. This means there will be a greater demand for voiceovers — and in particular, freelance home studio voiceover talent.

How the Election will be Affected by Coronavirus and Political Voice Talents with Home Studios

Voiceover artists live every day in a fast-paced and quick-turnaround industry: we might have to provide a demo for an audition, book a job, and be required to send in the final, edited recording all in the same day. Because of this, most voiceover talents have their own broadcast-quality home studios. With soundproof booths, high-end microphones, soundboards, and the best audio software to produce top-quality audio, they are streamlined, self-sufficient studios, able to get jobs done quickly and effectively. Better yet, they don’t need to come into contact with anyone outside of their own home, making the CDC-recommended precautions easy to fulfill.

This is all to say that the show must go on — indeed, will go on — and if spreading political messages has to go fully digital, the voiceover talents at Blue Wave Voiceover are ready. Each member of the collective at Blue Wave Voiceover is able to produce high-quality voiceover recordings for political commercials with a fast turnaround time, because everyone in the Collective has a professional home studio, is flexible and understands the needs of ad agencies and producers and their tight deadlines.

How Voiceover Can Help with COVID-19 Preparation

As companies from every industry are trying to advise employees and consumers on new safety regulations and new policies of operation, they will need to send out videos, phone messages, commercials and all kinds of messaging that feature voiceover. Blue Wave Voiceover has diverse, experienced, and bilingual voiceover talent with home studios, who are all well versed in medical and scientific terminology.

It is times like these, where we are looking at policies with a close and critical eye, that campaigns have the opportunity to prosper. It might be that politicians and causes will have to change the way they reach their voters, but technologies and social media are on our side. With clear messaging and an expansive outreach, we can get a candidate’s ideas out and within the voter’s reach. Through quickly produced, yet exceptional quality voiceover, Blue Wave Voiceover is dedicated to showcasing the voices of every voter in an effort to bring forth a Blue Wave in November. Our voice talent of all ages, races, genders and sexual orientations — voices that look and sound like America today —  are all prepared to work even harder to elevate the voices of reason.

 

Filed Under: Blog, Democratic Platform Issues, Pandemic

The Shifting Electoral Map: This Isn’t Your Parents’ Red State

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Demographics are Changing, and the Voting Patterns

The 2016 election brought a shock to the shifting electoral map. States that were previously thought to be part of the “Blue Wall” were no longer the safe havens they were once thought to be. But some states, though impervious to Democratic advances, have also begun shifting, creating new challenges for candidates in these changing districts to reach potential voters. Especially with shifts in the media ecosystem making it harder for political advertising voices to cut through.

Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were all part of what had previously been considered firmly Democratic states, ensuring a Democratic presidential candidate a considerable number of electoral votes, with Ohio being the Rust Belt state that was often considered a swing state and a huge focus for political advertising dollars. But 2016 upended those preconceptions, with all 4 states failing to go Democratic, albeit by slim margins in the former “Blue Wall” states.

Introducing: Purple States

However, Democratic fortunes in formerly unassailable states like Virginia and Arizona are raising hopes of activists there. Arizona is trending toward a much more purple state, with victories both on the state and local level by Democrats, including Senator Kyrsten Sinema, 5 of Arizona’s 9 U.S. House seats, and the Secretary of State. The party remains in the minority statewide however, holding only 42 of 90 State Senate and House seats, and lost the governor’s race in 2016 by 15 percentage points.

Virginia is in the process of becoming a fully blue state, with all major statewide seats, both Senators, and the majority of both houses (by the slimmest of margins) held by Democrats. Growth in the metropolitan areas around Washington D.C., bolstered by influxes of northern transplants have fueled this change. Residents of these states can expect to see a huge surge in Democratic political spots hitting their airwaves and streaming platforms.

Other southern states like North Carolina have experienced similar changes. It became a firmly purple state in 2008, when Barack Obama won the state, and in 2012 when he lost it by a very slim margin. Growth in Charlotte and the Triangle area has fueled the balance, though it may be some time, if ever, before the state consistently votes Democratic.

They Do Say Things Are Bigger In Texas

The biggest prize is still out there: the purple-trending state of Texas. The Lone Star State has been solidly red for decades, but some cracks have started to appear in the expected areas: high growth urban areas like Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, all fueled by the same migration patterns that have brought northern transplants to other Southern states. Democrats have pushed to move the state into their column for years, and are hoping to see this shift happen in the next 20 years. Given the number of electoral votes at stake, residents of Texas can expect to hear political voiceover in their living room right up until Election Day 2020.

For political voice actors supporting and voicing for progressive and liberal causes, ample opportunity is available, as these areas are and will continue to be flooded with advertising in this high-stakes electoral season. These states are growing more diverse; in Virginia, 3 in 4 new residents are people of color since 2000. But growth in diversity is not limited to the South: U.S. News and World Report states that Colorado Springs, CO and Henderson, NV have some of the fastest growing diversity rates in the country.

And as advertisers and candidates look to reach out to this growing, diverse population, finding the right voices to reach all segments of these areas — with voice actors who look and sound like the people moving into and living in these regions — will be the key to reaching voters for decades to come.

George Washington III is an 18 year veteran of the voice over industry based in Charlotte, NC. His voice has supported many national and local brands in television and radio, on the web, and on Internet radio like Spotify and Pandora. He has called Charlotte home for 22 years. You can find samples of his work at voevolution.com.

 

Filed Under: Blog, Democratic Platform Issues

“Us Kids” — A New Documentary, Directed by Kim A. Snyder

Gun Control, Democratic Platform Issues

After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers on February 14, 2018, survivors of the tragedy mourned, then gathered and organized a movement of activism. Us Kids, directed by Kim A. Snyder, follows the Parkland students as they move across the country rallying for common-sense gun laws and the end of school shootings. The film produced by Impact Partners will be a part of the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Gun control remains a central issue in the overall Democratic platform and candidates, campaigns and organizations alike continue to look for ways to get the message out in their political spots.

Not Her First Rodeo

This isn’t Snyder’s first documentary film about school shootings. Her film, Newtown, about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 before being presented at festivals worldwide and on PBS’s Independent Lens and Netflix. It went on to win a Peabody Award. Her short, Lessons From a School Shooting: Notes From Dunblane, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. The short won the DocDispatch Award at the 2018 Sheffield DocFest, and a Grierson Award nomination. It is now available to stream on Netflix in 196 countries.

Gun control and gun safety would appear to be a cause close to Kim A. Snyder’s heart. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Snyder said of her upcoming film, Us Kids, “We’re very inspired right now with the youth movement. We’ve been doing a new project based in Parkland with some of the students here, so our body of work is really a trajectory of five years — probably more — of really trying to put a narrative on this sort of, hopefully, tipping point in our country that addresses gun violence.”

The Beginning of A Movement

After the shooting, survivors started March for Our Lives, a movement of activism that aims to “harness the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies that save lives,” according to the website. Activists have led marches around the country to bring attention to the epidemic and to support legislation for tighter gun laws.

According to CNN, there have been 31 mass shootings at K-12 schools since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida. There have been 142 mass shootings since Newtown. 100 Americans are killed every day as a result of gun violence. It is through activism and in survivors telling their stories that we can hope to bring about positive change.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/parkland-doc-works-newtown-director-kim-a-snyder-tribeca-film-festival-2018-1106925

https://marchforourlives.com/mission-story/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/us/school-shootings-since-parkland-trnd/index.html

A voice talent and co-founder of Blue Wave Voiceover, Debbie Irwin can also be found at DebbieIrwin.com.

Filed Under: Gun Control, Democratic Platform Issues

Stacy Abrams’ Fight Against Voter Suppression

Representation, Democratic Platform Issues

Legal attempts at voter suppression are nothing new, and thousands of voters have been purged from the voter rolls in two key 2020 election states; Georgia and Wisconsin. Judge Paul Malloy in Wisconsin ordered the removal of 234,000 names from the state’s voter rolls claiming an attempt to remove inactive voters, or ones that have not responded to address confirmations from election officials. To put it into perspective, that is roughly 7 percent of the electorate in the state. Donald Trump won Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election by just 23,000 votes. According to the Wisconsin Election Commission, the removal of these voters was not planned to happen until 2021, but in response to a lawsuit from a conservative group, Judge Paul Malloy had ordered that the voters be removed 30 days after they fail to respond to election officials. In battleground states, Democrats and progressives cannot afford to lose votes through forced partisan bureaucracy.

An Ordered Purge

Four days after the judge’s ruling, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordered the removal of 309,000 names from the state’s voter rolls. That makes up about 4 percent of the electorate. In the state’s gubernatorial race between Stacy Abrams and Brian Kemp in 2018, Stacy Abrams failed to qualify for the runoff by 21,000 votes. The purge will remove the names of at least 100,000 who have chosen not to vote in previous elections. This is happening shortly before the state’s primary election. And, unfortunately – there isn’t enough political advertising or political voiceovers in the world to cut through the noise if people simply aren’t permitted to cast their votes.

The fear from voter advocates is that this purge is meant to affect those who are younger, and poor or disenfranchised people of color who move often and who predominantly lean democratic. The “use it or lose it” mentality will revoke Georgian residents’ right to vote simply because some couldn’t or chose not to vote in past elections. This all stems back to an Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 2018, split 5-4 along partisan lines, that allows Ohio election officials to remove names from the voter rolls they deem outdated, and requires those voters to re-register.

What It Means for the 2020 Election Season

As we get closer to the 2020 presidential election it is expected that we see even more types of voter suppression beyond closed polling stations, long lines at the polls, broken polling booths, and new identification laws. The challenge here is that even if you are able to get your political spots in front of the voters you need, they may not be able to cast their vote. This is why Stacy Abrams has started her own advocacy group called Fair Fight, in an effort to put voter advocates on the ground in 20 swing states to help combat efforts to suppress an American’s right to vote. The group has created programs with the aim to educate voters about their rights, advocating for election reform and assisting in voter registration.

So far, Fair Fight has assisted in filing lawsuits against the Georgia voter purge and has proposed a fine of $300,000 for the state’s failure to turn over paper ballots for recounts.

With Fair Fight, Stacy Abrams is working hard to ensure that all voters have the chance to cast a vote and have their voices heard in the upcoming general election. She has started a campaign to raise enough money so Fair Fight representatives can assist voters in fighting suppression in all 20 battleground states. As of now the group has raised nearly 15 million dollars towards this goal. More information can be found on the group’s website, https://fairfight.com/.

Sources:

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/474754-stacey-abrams-group-files-emergency-motion-to-stop-georgia-voting

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/gop-led-voter-purges-in-wisconsin-and-georgia-could-tip-2020-elections/

https://fairfight.com/latest-news/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/11/17448742/ohio-voter-purge-supreme-court-ruling

Debbie Irwin is a Blue Wave voice talent and co-founder. To hear more of her work, visit DebbieIrwin.com.

Filed Under: Representation, Democratic Platform Issues

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