The Goal

Every campaign effort needs specific goals. The goal of mybo is to mobilize volunteers to assist the professional campaign staffers for the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) drive at the local level. However, there is a persistent logistics problem with the current system.

Staffers can not direct volunteers. The rules governing staffer-volunteer interactions are strict. Staffers can only offer advice and assistance. We volunteers must manage ourselves. Volunteers are free to come and go as we wish. We are free to abandon a task when the task is only half done. Not exactly an ideal arrangement from a staff perspective.

From a staffer's point of view the ideal would be too many volunteers who are already organized in such a way that whenever the need arises the staffers can dependably contact, immediate mobilize and specifically direct this inexhaustible supply of volunteers. ;-)

The bottom line is simple. If want to give the Obama staff the most support possible, we need to build a volunteer communications network that staffers can rely on. By building this self-administered network we will very likely successfully eliminate all of the built in communication complexities of having to go to people; who know people; who might know people; who might be willing; who then might even show up. Our ideal goal is to make it possible for the staffers to plug directly into the volunteer network with their requests.

We must all do our best to get this network up and running as soon as possible while there is still time left to make a difference come November.   - G

Btw, we now also have Hamilton County covered. Yes!