PING!
Posted on 01/15/2008 2:57:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Welcome to our Phone for Fred online phone bank! Person to person contact is the most effective way to make a difference in an election. We created the Phone for Fred program for all of you Friends of Fred who want to volunteer and do more for Fred!
We need your help in the early primary states. Our Phone for Fred online phone bank makes it easy for you to make a difference!
Fred only needs a small commitment of time and you will soon see that your phone calls and person to person contact will help Fred win!
Thanks
PING!
Great stuff, I’m phoning for Fred and it really helps me feel like I’m contributing even though my primary is far away. I know lots of us will be jumping on this chance to do something for the man we know should be our next President.
By the way, a good friend of mine just got his deployment orders and he will be gone for 18 mos in Afghanistan. He told me to make sure that he gets to salute President Fred Thompson when he gets back. I said I would. I’d like to invite every one of you to join me in that commitment.
You ARE contributing! Many of us can't send a lot of money or take time off from work to travel to South Carolina, but we can spend a an hour or so making phone calls.
Remember even a small pebble can make a large ripple. :)
Money is good! :)
Money it is! I’m swamped with work and committments but can always find time to donate another $50.
Thanks to the people making the calls!
This is our best method of turning the tide in our favor and I can’t emphasize this enough! This program needs to get hammered home with all of Fred’s supporters. We at FR pride ourselves on being a community of action, we brag about our members taking down Dan RatherNot and now is the time when we can all be part of DIRECT ACTION that will continue this proud tradition.
I would think it much better to have a multi-branching script that would allow a conversation more like:
"Hello, this is Alvin Jones, a volunteer for the Fred Thompson presidential campaign. Might I have a moment of your time?" "Sure, I guess."
"Thank you very much. I'll try to keep this brief. First of all, how familiar are you with candidate Fred Thompson?"
"He seems like an okay guy, but he doesn't really seem pro-life."
"Fred Thompson has been endorsed by National Right to Life and many other organizations, and has a solid pro-life voting record."
"Really? I thought he came out against a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion."
"True, but that's because pushing for an amendment at this point won't accomplish anything unless or until 38 states severely restrict abortion. That can't happen until Roe v. Wade is overturned and the power is returned to the states."
"You have a point. I still like ___, though."
"That's fine, but if you'd like to know more about Fred you can visit his web site. Do you have Internet access?"
"Yes, I do."
"Good. Visit www.fred08.com whenever you like, and thank you for your time. Good night."
"Good night." (click)
Din’t mean to hit “post” quite yet. Anyway, I don’t know if there’s some law that requires long annoying monologues, but I would think a more interactive format would work much better at winning people’s supports. While it’s true that asking someone for a moment of their time will mean you don’t get to deliver your monologue if they say “no”, I would think that a polite good bye a that point would leave a much more favorable impression of the candidate than a long boring speech in which the listener isn’t interested.
If you think that would work for you, by all means do it. Tomorrow is the primary.
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