Posted on 10/22/2008 7:22:28 PM PDT by fooman
Bookmaestro and I have managed to recruit few a dozen friends to make hundreds of calls for the McCain campaign. It is actually quite easy to do from your own home and does not require travel to a 'call bank' by going to:
www.johnmccain.com/dashboard
You can make a hugh =) difference. A short script provided by the campaign (which you can improve on over time) makes this easy. The McCain site provides the numbers to call and you provide the time. At the end of the call you can quickly note how the call went, which will no doubt help the campaign focus resources.
Frankly, I am surprised at well the campaign has kept this resource hidden.
A few tricks of the trade may help to make it easier for you.
- Stress that you are calling as an unpaid volunteer (I have found particularly useful to mention the Obama $$ advantage)
- Use your own words as much as possible over time
- Send key articles, mention the freerepublic website and encourage engaged people to help make calls
- Listen carefully to the person's concern(eg small business owner, defense, transport worker) and be able to respond appropriately (eg lower taxes, missile defense, energy)
- Call in battleground states (eg CO, VA, NH, PA, NM and OH)
- Stress that the polls are close (eg we are only down one point in the latest AP poll)
Hi, I am -- volunteering on behalf of the McCain campaign.
John McCain will get our economy back on track by lowering taxes and freezing government spending to create jobs.
In fact, he recently committed to vetoing a bill by George Miller that would sink the stock market by eliminating tax breaks for 401Ks.
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He will reform Washington by going after Freddie, Fannie Mae and Acorn.
He will break our dependence on foreign oil, which will cut prices at the pump. McCain will employ an ‘all of the above’ strategy to diversify our sources of energy.
On defense, he will not be tested as an inexperienced president as Biden has pointed out Obama would be.
A “hugh” difference?
an old freeper joke...
I wish the McCain campaign had made more of this. If you contribute to a 401k then you (1)love that deduction and (2)have a long term investment horizon. Naturally the market volatility over the last month has been disconcerting, but I think by and large most 401k investors would be extremely agitated about the Dems doing away with the 401k deduction.
Maybe there’s still time. I think there’s a way to tie it into the Joe the Plumber attacks. As in, ‘here’s another way Obama and the Democrats are going to spread the wealth.’
Good idea! I’ve copied page 1 of the article in investmentnews to pass out. It even plans a mandated 5% payroll deduction for retirement instead of the 401(K) to be administered by the SSA. (tax increase)
McCain is a piss-poor candidate who can’t even articulate what the end of the “Bush Tax Cuts” will mean to the middle class.
Screw the whole $250k fraud that Obama is perpetrating, this is more immediate for the productive class.
Wow thanks for the info...
If you believe this, help us carry him over the finish line!
The worst outcome: BHO wins.
The somewhat better outcome: McCain wins.
The best outcome: McCain wins, is sworn in, and promptly resigns.
Oh the “hugh” manatee?
If he doesn't, I predict he is the ruin of the Republican party.
Or maybe I should say he completes the ruination of the Republican party.
McCain lost the election when he signed that legislation,along with Obama.The Senate had the votes and his didn't matter.He could have voted against it and won the election easily.We'd still have been stuck with it,but McCain would have been a hero to most Americans,by simply voting NO.
The election is far from lost zero has a one pt lead.
In all honesty, we need to be prepared for a McCain loss. As messed up as the polls are, they are what we have right now. We should not delude ourselves like in 2006 that “They are all fake!”
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