“You need PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, not on some damn website. You need people in every county: buildings, phones, organizers, callers, walkers, bumperstickers, the whole works. This organization needed to be in place six months ago-—EVEN IF Fred didn’t announce until Labor Day. You absolutely cannot build an organization overnight. Most of the good people-—the pros-—are gone, and even if not, it takes months to get an operation humming.”
But supposedly they are going with a “modern,” cyber-based campaign. Less travel, more youtube messages, etc.
Not all that much convinced it will work. I have a hunch that people who read and post on FR are very much NOT representative of voters. FR people spend much more time on the web on politics.
Didn’t work for Howard Dean. The fact is, you still need personal contact of some sort, if for no other reason to find out WHO to target with your campaign efforts. For example, if you rely on people responding to cyber messages, well, 95% of the people don’t respond. So does that mean your campaign must target 95% of the people? Pretty silly, especially in a PRIMARY, where you are only going after the “uber Republicans” who always vote.