I taught kids to chant: "John Kerry is our man, Bush belongs

[roseBudd]

in a garbage can"

Shortly after they were marching down the street pumping their arms and chanting it. It was really cute because it was right around the corner from Kerry headquarters and they marched past the high school kids who were standing on the corner holding Kerry signs. So everyone was pumped up for Kerry.

[molly]

1. Cute!

[magnolia]

2. How about a new...

...trick or treat chant while they are out collecting candy:

BUSH IS SCARRY...VOTE FOR KERRY!!!!

[roseBudd]

4. I do all my GOTV in African American neighborhoods in SW Ohio

Innovative marketing messages targeted at different demographics are key I believe.

African American kids chanting as they traverse city streets can I believe help reinforce our GOTV efforts. Humor and playfulness makes politics fun.

I have a variety of flyers I have created for urban neighborhoods. I use them on utilty poles in front of bus stops and many African American businesses proudly hang my flyers on their walls.

Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download the files.




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[cali]

3. My first response to this is ugh

I take it you're talking about small children (grade school age). If kids come up with this stuff on their own, that's one thing. Teaching them to parrot a political slogan is another.

[roseBudd]

5. This is SW Ohio I am talking about

I will do whatever it takes to get Kerry votes in Ohio.

[cali]

6. Sorry,

Just don't see how this garners votes for Kerry. And much as I want Kerry to win, I can categorically state that there are things I wouldn't do to get him elected.

[roseBudd]

8. Yeah, well this urban dweller in SW Ohio WILL

canvass young men who stand on the corner selling crack. I will walk what most suburban people consider dangerous streets everyday talking to low income people about this election. I will spray glue flyers on utility poles in the rain. I will use guerilla marketing and viral marketing techniques to get low income newly registered voters to the polls on Nov. 2. On Saturday and Sunday I had over 175 street level contacts with young newly registerd African American males who took, read and kept my GWB is a PAB flyer.

If you think Kerry campaign literature gets it for this demographic, you don't know marketing.

[gauguin57]

9. I agree

Not a positive for us. Just my $.02, but ...

A group of us Democrats in my overwhelmingly Republican County in Pennsylvania marched in a group of parades around the county. We were loudly booed as we walked down the street. LOUDLY BOOED (and had other things yelled at us). People were MEAN, and the little kids were among the meanest. We were disgusted to find that mothers were putting their little ones on their laps and TEACHING them to boo at us. And the kids who were screaming at us on their own learned that at the dinner table. They reminded me of Hitler Youth ... it was SCARY!

I see nothing wrong with telling kids how great Kerry is, and getting them to chant his name and being positive about him and his candidacy.

But getting little kids to march down the street chanting negative stuff about Bush, IMHO, is not a positive for us. (Yeah, I know that "belongs in a garbage can" is not as negative as the stuff the Pug kids were yelling at us, but...)

I KNOW your heart is in the right place, and I know we're all frustrated ... but this goes both ways. You don't like it when Freepers teach their little kids to say bad things about Kerry, right?

[KharmaTrain]

7. Reminds Me Of '92

My little ones were 7 and 5 and this we'd color in the states on the electoral map.

Next Tuesday that 7 year old will be casting a REAL vote for John Kerry and mom & dad will be there and couldn't be prouder!

Enjoy the moment...may you enjoy many more to come!!

Cheers!