Forget radio and television, they are extremely expensive for every vote gained and no more than a lazy way for campaign consultants to earn big fees.
As Free Republic grows, and I mean exponentially, we have to opportunity to go back to the extremely successful ways of winning elections that I knew during my first 20 years in politics.
Put together armies of volunteers and target winnable districts (we used to consider any 36% Republican registration district a winnable district), educate the volunteers on a limited number of issues to be discussed, and send them door to door of every registered voter in the district.
Have them carry 3 pieces of literature to be handed out or hung on the door if no one is home. One with lots of pictures and very little verbiage (no more than 2 syllables in a word, 2 sentences in a paragraph, or 7 letters in a word) to reach the 80-90% of the people, one with more issues in big print for the 6-8% with higher intelligence, and one with lots of fine print with lots of issues for the other 2%.
I have worked on or ran campaigns in the 60s and 70s and won against well financed campaigns with this strategy at far less cost.
It's proven, it works, and it isn't expensive!
Earlier I said we have to start thinking like Sam Adams. Let me add that we need to start thinking like Thomas Paine.