stevedasbach
01-09-2008, 09:27 PM
[EDIT: Sorry about the thread title. Started to change it and forgot to finish]
What do you think? Is this our "ace-in-the-hole"?
Joe Trippi on Internet organizing and Super Tuesday.
TechPresident: "How do you see Internet organizing working in other states? Just the fact that you have those extra people to touch from a field perspective, or the narrative?"
Joe Trippi: "On a big day like February 5, where you suddenly are in a bunch of states, there's no way for any campaign to compete with its own resources that day. It's got to decentralize. Count on lots of supporters. And frankly, there's not a whole lot that paid media can do on that day. Twenty states, you could blow all of whatever Obama's got in the bank on California all by itself and still not have a penny left for any other state.... "
"At some point between New Hampshire and South Carolina, the campaign loses its ability to do it. At that point, there's no way a campaign can do what has to happen on February 5th. The traditional old style, top-down centralized campaign structure doesn't work. Twenty states and all you've got is the candidate on a tarmac and what you've built on the Net in terms of being able to decentralize and mobilize in all states."
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18826/trippi_unplugged_in_iowa
What do you think? Is this our "ace-in-the-hole"?
Joe Trippi on Internet organizing and Super Tuesday.
TechPresident: "How do you see Internet organizing working in other states? Just the fact that you have those extra people to touch from a field perspective, or the narrative?"
Joe Trippi: "On a big day like February 5, where you suddenly are in a bunch of states, there's no way for any campaign to compete with its own resources that day. It's got to decentralize. Count on lots of supporters. And frankly, there's not a whole lot that paid media can do on that day. Twenty states, you could blow all of whatever Obama's got in the bank on California all by itself and still not have a penny left for any other state.... "
"At some point between New Hampshire and South Carolina, the campaign loses its ability to do it. At that point, there's no way a campaign can do what has to happen on February 5th. The traditional old style, top-down centralized campaign structure doesn't work. Twenty states and all you've got is the candidate on a tarmac and what you've built on the Net in terms of being able to decentralize and mobilize in all states."
http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/18826/trippi_unplugged_in_iowa