I've been trying for 5 days to get recorded a decent version of a new broadcast on Political Strategy and Messaging not Tactics. I've been asked to do so and it's a legitimate request. Most of what I have done is 'tactic's' not strategy.
BUT...I've tried 12 times, by actual count, to get one done that I'm happy with...and I haven't. I just spent an hour and three more tries. And I will get it done. But not this morning. Patience, please.
Rather than the usual Insurgent Campaign stuff today we speak of things as important and perhaps, right now, MORE important.
The Republicans may try their Nuclear Option in the Senate next week. That would allow them to break any filabuster or disallow one with just 51 votes. It would END fairness in the Senate. We all know this fact. So how can you respond and be effective...instantly?
Yesterday we had a podcast/blogcast on Fundraising Relationships that approached the topic from a non-traditional view. Today we add some detail to that topic that is crucially important! Please listen to:
Once again I take a relatively unusual view of the Fundraisers relationship with Donors. Because the Podcast/Blogcast is a little longer than I would normally like I never got say that the reason for much of this technique is to create fundraising that matures into real relationships and last far longer than one campaign. Part of this unusual approach is that I've been in professional sales most of my long life. It lends a different longer-term perspective
I feel a bit like a salmon swimming upstream. But a salmon is surrounded by thousands of other salmon. It isn't really comfortable being a lone salmon.
But if you listen and think of your Donors as people that you want to have as referral relationships, fundraising relationships and volunteers...you'll see why they are more than just a bank account! Imagine the referrals just one enthusiastic supporter can bring to your campaign! And referrals are cost-free gold. Ask any sales person.
We have a new podcast today, (and one following right behind about fundraising relationship building), that re-inforces the importance of what everyone in every race across the US is doing. And what's the most important part of your race?
Database building! Listen to it you'll get what I mean.
Look...I have no love for Karl Rove. But the man got the least qualified candidate elected to the Presidency twice! Do you think he might know something about PRACTICAL POLITICS?
Karl Rove believes that 2008 election will usher in a new era in nomination politics, Robert Robb
says after interviewing the White House strategist. He thinks the 2008
campaign "might depart from what he describes as the '80s and '90s
model, in which candidates parlay national standing and status into the
nomination." Instead there will be a "reversion back to what he
describes as the '60s model, in which candidates earn support by
grassroots, retail politicking."
"If so, the candidates who will ultimately have the inside track aren't
necessarily those on the talk shows, but those making connections with
party and conservative-cause activists."
What's The Insurgent Political Campaign all about but Retail Politics? He gets it. And what's more he's willing to say so 3 years and 7 months before the next Presidential Election. Do you think that gives us enough notice?
We may despise Rove's tactics and policies...but he has been successful. We MUST learn from those who have been successful, not those who have been unsuccessful!
I'll send you to Oliver's blog but this post says more about things you can throw at your opponent than anything I could ever express this succinctly! You should copy and print this out and put it in front of every member of your campaign staff...from Candidate to Volunteer. This is truth personified. I heartily endorse every word. This is part of your everyday Insurgent Political Campaign rhetoric...or at least I hope so. You are running against the Republican Establishment!
While that headline seems a little far fetched, it's true. It can't
happen tomorrow or next week...but over time with original pure
scientific research it can happen. We can discover new sources of
energy and ways of using them that we can't even imagine today. That
was the way that the Apollo Project's commitment to sending a man to
the moon and bringing him home alive impacted us at home. And an entire generation of scientists and achievements flowed out that commitment that we, today, take for granted.
Listen to "We can Get Eliminate The Petro Based Economy" (10 mins) to get a good idea of the beginning step that you can take today to help the effort. And it not about your personal conservation or sacrifice! It's about political support for a concept whose time has come. This is posted at The Insurgent Political Campaign as it is the perfect non-partisan issue for the Campaign Trail.
This is the one Campaign issue that will hit home with every voter. Listen and think about how to integrate into your platform and every Campaign appearance.
As a sidenote to our series on Effective Red District Campaigns, check The Political Dogfight for the latest podcast/blogcast on a method of using arcane House Rules to force the Republicans, at least weekly, into defending Tom Delay without ever hearing any evidence. Oliver Willis also mentions it along with the originator Mark A.R. Kleiman who began the plan on April 5, 05.Check it out.
Today's new Podcast/Blogcast is potentially the most controversial of the series. First, I offer my view of what not to do on the Campaign Stump, and that view is different than many Democrats.
Second, I offer a closing remark that I've never heard in a Congressional Campaign but is the essence of honesty. And it is my foundation belief that more than any other characteristic the American Voter wants to hear Honesty from their Candidates. So listen and respond. Maybe you'll hate it...maybe not.
