I've been hooted down around here by TRYING to point out the reality of a campaign. I've worked a couple in my day. You need PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, not on some damn website. You need people in every county: buildings, phones, organizers, callers, walkers, bumperstickers, the whole works. This organization needed to be in place six months ago---EVEN IF Fred didn't announce until Labor Day. You absolutely cannot build an organization overnight. Most of the good people---the pros---are gone, and even if not, it takes months to get an operation humming.
Yes, the press is always biased, and more biased against the more conservative candidates: but that doesn't change reality.
I called Wamp two months ago, offering to help set up Ohio. Nothing. Called again a month ago. Nothing. Now, I'm not Karl Rove or Boss Tweed, but I haven't even heard of any other person in OH who is working on Fred's campaign, so perhaps they might have had the courtesy to at least TALK to me???
“You need PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, not on some damn website. You need people in every county: buildings, phones, organizers, callers, walkers, bumperstickers, the whole works. This organization needed to be in place six months ago-—EVEN IF Fred didn’t announce until Labor Day. You absolutely cannot build an organization overnight. Most of the good people-—the pros-—are gone, and even if not, it takes months to get an operation humming.”
But supposedly they are going with a “modern,” cyber-based campaign. Less travel, more youtube messages, etc.
Not all that much convinced it will work. I have a hunch that people who read and post on FR are very much NOT representative of voters. FR people spend much more time on the web on politics.
“I called Wamp two months ago, offering to help set up Ohio. Nothing. Called again a month ago. Nothing. Now, I’m not Karl Rove or Boss Tweed, but I haven’t even heard of any other person in OH who is working on Fred’s campaign, so perhaps they might have had the courtesy to at least TALK to me???”
If Wamp had talked to you, he would have been breaking the law. Such is the nature of the rules governing testing-the-waters groups.
We ran up against this when a bunch of us from several grassroots organizations contacted Friends of Fred to ask a few questions. I got a terse e-mail response from Mark Corallo saying, in essense, “We’re not allowed to talk to you right now.”
That will change after the 6th.