What do staffers have that we do not? Three things. An ongoing structure (buildings where people get together daily to accomplish specific objectives); ongoing activities (knowledgeable people, a proven action plan, clear objectives); and most important - and access to an organized database (a huge list of Obama supporters and volunteers).
If you have volunteered to work in the field you know that your work will primarily consist of 3 tasks. Canvassing; working the phone banks; and entering volunteer data into the database system. Have you ever noticed that staffers can usually be found hiding behind some desk, typing furiously, talking on their cells and looking up only when they have no other choice? They are furiously engaged in entering data into the system.
They are entering the voter and volunteer data from all the countless forms, applications, even merchandise receipts and entering it into the HQ database. Perhaps the most important part of field work is collecting contact information from every registered pro-Obama they can reach? The database and the people are the two most important ingredients to launch a successful grass-roots campaign.
All we have to do is copy their time-tested recipe for success. Reach out to people. Get their contact information and then follow it through until you start getting responses. Do you see where we are headed with this? ;-)
The turning point for me to actually personally commit to the Obama campaign was when I saw the red graffiti massage that had been painted on the brick wall next to the image of Senator Obama: "I am not asking you to believe in me. I am asking you to believe in yourselves."
The turning point is always the same. We finally understand that we are our only real solution. - G
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