raystone
12-19-2007, 07:22 PM
Bringing in masses of campaign workers, who are strangers, to contact local voters may cause more harm than good. This may have been part of the cause in the collapse of the 2004 Dean campaign in Iowa. The Dean campaign had a strategy called the Dean Storm — they would fly in people from across the country who they had recruited on the Internet. These outsiders would then go out into the public to persuade caucus participants.
The Kerry campaign had a more successful strategy, and an apparently better understanding of social networks. The Kerry campaign connected to local politicians who had already build local influence networks over the years. The Kerry people had friends, neighbors, and co-workers influencing each other, and a surprising victory.
from...http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=7&gl=us
Who has worked the local political scene, and can you share your successes ?
The Kerry campaign had a more successful strategy, and an apparently better understanding of social networks. The Kerry campaign connected to local politicians who had already build local influence networks over the years. The Kerry people had friends, neighbors, and co-workers influencing each other, and a surprising victory.
from...http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=7&gl=us
Who has worked the local political scene, and can you share your successes ?