Obama’s grassroots army ready to do battle
This piece in the Wall Street Journal outlines how Barack Obama’s grassroots donors and activists will be mobilized to support his ideas as president. Quite frankly, this is a brilliant strategy and I wish the right could figure out how to organize this well. Certainly the timing and the historic nature of Obama’s rise is important in all of this, but his organizational skills are superb.
“What the Obama candidacy has shown is that he understood the importance and usefulness of new technology,” said Harold Ickes, a Democratic strategist who organized voter data for the Obama campaign. “It seems to me that the grass-roots data he used to run his campaign can be transferred into a tool to support legislation and other initiatives.”
This online and offline army of volunteers will be flooding Congress with phone calls, faxes and emails, and getting involved in the elections of those that don’t support President Obama’s policies. This means that Barack Obama has just institutionalized his revolution, which will continue to rely upon his volunteers to “be the change we’ve been waiting for.”
Obama is so far ahead of organizers on the right, and we all should quickly learn from his campaign and gear up the conservative movement to take on his worst ideas as president. We should also build a similar movement on the right that is ready to get behind our rising stars like Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana or Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina.
Whoever our future leaders in the conservative movement are, we need to invest in the infrastructure now to be ready for 2012 and 2016.
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