I'm not certain whether the Obama staff were passing around the new "4 more Iowa supporter" application to the students that attended todays rally in Ames Iowa , but if they did which it appears they did , they should be recommended for that.
I'm not sure whether the campaign is heavily courting its myspace members and others that may be interested but if they're not , i think they should think about going all out in turning this group into voters and i have some ideas on how to proceed..(I would expect that the campaign are already doing everything that i'm ready to suggest)
First of all , i checked the Obama myspace page and clicked on many members that posted comments on the page and too many of those members doesn't have Barack as a top friend on their list and i'm not sure whether the camapaign is reaching out to every single person that post a positive comment on the Obama myspace site.
Anyway , here's what HAS to be done.
1)As soon as a Myspace member post a "positive" comment on the Barack Obama website , a campaign official who monitors the page should quickly reach out to the poster by email or post a message on the poster's page as soon as possible.
2)The campaign official should make it clear to the poster that he/she's a professional employee working for the (official) Obama campaign and would like to be friend and have a discussion on how he/she could help Barack get elected.
3)If the person is interested , the Obama official should (please) ask this member to add Barack on top of his friend's list...Maybe not number one , but somewhere that is visible so that the member's friends would easily spot the Obama avator/picture which could prompt others to be curious about the member's new top friend.
4)The Obama official should ask the interested member whether he/she could spread the word about Barack's presidential bid and lobby other members in his friend's list to join the Barack's network of friends and to also add Obama into their top friend's list.
The official could promise the interested member a free bumper sticker/shirt or some other cheap materials IF the member can recruit some of his friends that on his top friend's list.
5)The official should ask the interested poster whether he/she's 17 or 18..If yes , the campaign should then ask the poster whether he/she 's registered to vote.
If the poster is not registered , the official could direct the poster to the website where you could easily register online..The official should beg the poster to register and assist the poster on any question needed to fill out the application online.
6)Official should ask poster to send in email about Obama to everyone that's on his/her (main) email list.
7)Official should ask poster to please recruit mom or dad and spread the word about Barack....Parents are easily influenced by their kids and they may be flattered that their son or daughter are lobbying them into voting for their favorite candidate....I find it hard to believe some parents would reject such a lobby.
8) which is the last one , the official should send weekly email to the poster to keep him/her up to date about the campaign and other stuff.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK??...WE COULD EVEN HELP OUT COURT THOSE FOLKS AND DO EVERYTHING THAT I STATED ON MY LIST?
The Barack Obama campaign are not doing enought to push voter registration and there are so many things they could do.
Out of the 3 democratic candidates,Barack has the most potential to not only get his supporters to do more for him, but to also get many unregistered Americans to register and vote for him because of his politic of hope and change.
Some type of initiative needs to start now so that we can register as many voters as possible.
I've heard that they(Obama campaign) are mainly leaving the voter registration stuff to their small grassroots, but i really feel that they are making a big mistake by not pushing it themselves and do it very aggressively.
In my opinion, they should come up with some type of gimmick like the "walk for change" or"dinner for 5" but this plan should emphasize voter registration and how to become a registrar and register people in your community.
Maybe the campaign could set a goal of 2 million new voters nationwide for barack
1.sent out emails to everyone on the Obama email list and inform them that they will be pushing a new initiative just like the "walk for change" gimmick but this one is met to turn donors into registrar for the purpose of registering as many voters as possible.
2.Frontpage the rules on how to do registration drive or how to become registrar so that everyone knows exactly where to get the forms and the rules of their states
3.Create a map just like the "walk for change" map and once a person has become a registrar or is registering folks by handing out registration-forms,this person will show up on the new computerize map along with how many voters this specific person registered....Now, the problem is whether the Obama camp would be able to verify whether the specific person did indeed register the amount of person he/she claims to have registered.
The map would neatly show how many Obama-registrar there is on a specific location/area/state and how many voters those registrars have registered so far and maybe a goal could be set for the South Carolina or NJ registrars...We could have at least 20 registrars working in the state of South Carolina alone.
Is it anything illegal in this plan or initiative?
