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The real story here is how Lyft and Uber harrassed their supporters away from the polls. I got 7 flyers in the mail, 3 unsolicited phone calls, multiple push n
by uncletammy 10y ago
The real story here is how Lyft and Uber harrassed their supporters away from the polls.
I got 7 flyers in the mail, 3 unsolicited phone calls, multiple push notifications and texts, and a visitor at my door all over a 4 day time period. It can sure make you indifferent to them not getting their way.
Their aggressive marketing campaign turned attention away from the issues on the ballot and they came off as an enormous bully who was clearly buying the vote.
- eridius 10y agoI take it you prefer to be more subtly influenced into voting the way others want? Because either way you are being influenced by others to vote the way they want you to.
- AlexandrB 10y agoWould you be more likely to support someone's pet cause if they were yelling at you about how they need your support or if they asked politely? Human social structures are not based on rational decision making but on perception. That's why politics exists.
- uncletammy 10y agoI would prefer this $8 million dollar marketing machine be less fumbling and careless when the stakes are this high. It's not like they couldn't afford to be more strategic. They simply chose the lazy, brute force approach and I think it cost them the election. Looks like I'm not alone: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/4id9vf/why_prop_one_failed_at_least_for_me/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/4id9vf/why_prop_one... https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/4iacif/uber_and_lyft_you_are_alienating_people_who/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/4iacif/uber_and_lyf...