Reply #30: psssst DTH [View All]

[salin]

tell your guy to study Trippi's methods, not just for fundraising, but for creating lean, quickly adapting, state organizations that are somewhat decentralized and build upon initial netorganizing - but use that organizing to spread into nonnet organizing. The fundraising through this mechanism does two things - as can be seen by both campaigns really utilizing these methods the first is obvious - more money from more sources more efficiently collected; but as important (and mostly ignored) is the heightened level of commitment to the candidate - the willingness to roll up the sleeves and start getting active locally. In the end THIS, imo, is what will win the general election.

Your guy got off great on this front, but in the chaos surrounding any new organization, seems to be pulling more centralized. Nudge them back to where they got their big boost and what helped catapult the media buzz.

I would like nothing more than to see two OR MORE campaigns starting to really utilize new campaign strategies, move more towards some decentralization (that pushes original new actions and thus new activism and broadens the reach of the campaign), that become much more able to pull of surprise moves on the GOP and keep that much better funded organization a little off balance. Gives back a little competitive edge to the dems.

We get several promising campaigns finding success with this - it will force a bit of revolutionizing among dem campaign strategists - which is needed to retip the balance in campaigns where the GOP currently holds money and media advantage.