Weekend wound up
Submitted by James Protzman on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 8:21am.
I love when I get to post a Weekend Wound Up on Thursday morning, especially since the clients I write for are closed today! And just in case you need a place to celebrate tomorrow, you're welcome at my house. The shindig starts at 4 and wraps at 7. It's a potluck (with barbecue and sweet tea provided). Bring a side dish or a dessert, your bathing suit, and maybe a lawn chair ... hope to see you here. Address is Four-fifty-one Lakeshore Lane. Chapel Hill.
Flaming liberals, moderates, conservatives, Libertarians, unaffiliateds, whatever, you're invited! The 4th of July is one day we can share our common ground in freedom.
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Check Out my.barackobama.com
If you haven't already, make your way over to my.barackobama.com and check out their new Neighbor to Neighbor Online Tool. It's pretty amazing.
The description:
Awesome.
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There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. - Robert F. Kennedy
Neighbor to Neighbor
I just posted on this. This is gonna be a great tool for grass roots efforts. It is the same back-end that the NCDP Constructing Victory program is using. Hopefully we will see Constructing Victory rolling out soon. This is the time in the campaign cycle to ID voters and this is what the Obama campaign is doing in their current Neighbor to Neighbor Canvass.
Hmm
That would be kind of weird to take a call from a pollster, tell them you havene't decided, then have a neighbor show up some time later to pitch for their candidate. I refuse to talk to pollsters, but if I did I'd get weirded out if this happened to me.
Unified campaign
That is the great thing about the Neighbor to Neighbor system tying back to the DNC VoteBuilder program. Any campaign or local party will know if someone has already been contacted and will move on to the next.
In your example, that is exactly how it is supposed to work. You have been identified as undecided and the campaign has sent their next best resource outside of the candidate to persuade you to vote for him, a neighbor. Now if you had answered strongly for or against the candidate you would not have gotten a visit.
Don't get me wrong. I think
Don't get me wrong. I think it is a great idea and I am sure it works. Still, it might make one weary to talk to a pollster in the future if they new it would likely result in a knock on the door.
I was going to post about this before.
It seems like a duplication of efforts, no? We've got Votebuilder, which county parties are using. We've got Constructing Victory, which, to my knowledge, has not successfully been rolled out, but will not tie in with Votebuilder, and now we've got the Obama Campaign doing - well - the same damn thing.
Don't you think some folks should have talked to each other ahead of time and decided which system was going to be used in NC so that people like me - who are involved in all efforts, and are trying to answer questions at the county level - would be able to answer those questions coherently?
I have found Votebuilder very useful in my precinct, and I think it will be helpful in our county as we move forward toward Nov. 4. We have not found Constructing Victory helpful. We've also found that changes entered by a candidate who bought access to Votebuilder does not show up on our county party committee - which leads to duplication of effort in a small county with a small pool of volunteers.
I am concerned that this new feature of the Obama campaign will be yet another wrinkle for county parties trying to navigate the waters this year.
I'm not against it. I just wish someone had talked to us peeons on the ground before it was all rolled out.
Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H.
Pointing at Naked Emperors
It does tie in, but....
Constructing Victory and Neighbor to Neighbor (Obama campaign) do tie into VoteBuilder. The problem is that of access to the information. If you don't have the right level of access to VoteBuilder you are not going to be able to see any changes done by Constructing Victory or a campaign. At least that is my understanding.
I feel your pain as a blew a gasket when I found out that all of the work I did updating phone numbers and email addresses under the Precinct meeting reporting committee was not available under my County Party committee account.
ll of the work I did updating phone numbers and email addresses
This should be true for email addresses, but NOT phone numbers. Call me if I can help: 919.395.1794
If email addresses were not restricted by committee, campaigns would not be able to prevent themselves from spamming far and wide. Therefore emails must be restricted. Campaigns don't really get email yet. They think it's like free mail, where sure lots of people will ignore it, but the more emails you send the more will get read, so why not send as many as possible.
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I just wish I had known that.
It would have saved some time.
Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H.
Pointing at Naked Emperors
Emails, not phone #
I checked my email thread and you are right, it is just email address changes.
I'll have to second you on this
I just found out today that the Obama campaign wants to register voters at our local fireworks event tomorrow. Nice idea, but it would have been nicer if the local party had known about it with a little more notice. I'll be there, but I am not sure how many other people will be.
Person County Democrats
The opposite happened here.
There is a big event in Carrboro tomorrow, always manned by the OCDP. In fact, my neighbor usually ends up tabling all day. Well, the Obama people called them up and said they would be happy to take half the day. So, now she actually gets to enjoy part of her 4th of July.
Yeah. Rumor has it that there are
a few active democrats in Orange County. Just a few. :)
I wish that we had that kind of participation in Person County. ... Sighhh ...
Person County Democrats
Who said this?
Guess without using the Googly. Hat tip to Ed Cone for the article.
Anton LeVey?
Nah...how about GWB.
Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H.
Pointing at Naked Emperors
Anton and the Durham Co. Dems
Probably don't want to mention Anton LeVey's name around Durham Co. these days
Wake Forest won't play us anymore
Michigan last year
LSU - you are next
Go ASU!
Zingggggggggg.
n/t
Oh Darlin' for goodness sake.
If they were real honest to Satan LeVeyans, they'd say so. They're not. Look at their website - it's all new age stuff. Not for some of your faint of heart evangelicals, but not Satanism. Not by a long shot.
Can we, instead, start talking about "for the good of North Carolina?" --Leslie H.
Pointing at Naked Emperors
McHenry's star falling
Just got an email with a Cook Report update on a bunch of Congressional races. One of them is Lil Pat's seat: