A Democrat victory will only happen if we win in the field, in the battlegrounds. The people who aren’t paying attention now aren’t going to decide next week. They’ll chose in the last two weeks, the last 48 hours, and when they enter the poll booth and start reading the ballot.
That means we have time, about 10 weeks, to focus on organizing. For us to crescendo, we need to get the orchestra practicing. We need to start a band.
In time honored tradition, starting a band involves postering. I recommend coffee shops and bars, but you can also poster your blog.
Around five in the morning on election day, we’re going to think back to the things we did, or should have done, in August. We all know we need to build an army. But this year, that involves a lot more than going down to the Party HQ Saturday morning. Campaign finance reform means we need to build our victory with the largest coalition in the history of politics. Your blog can join the Democratic coalition and help recruit the soldiers.
Every page directing the organizing of our campaign is crucial. There will be an amazingly large number of people who will read a blog before the election that’s written by somebody who thinks we can do better than Bush. When people read your blog and you fire them up with your posts, they need to be able to quickly and easily turn their interest into action. We need to sign them up. All of them.
Now is the time to update your blog template to include links directing people to join the effort. If bloggers start to direct recruiting now, their post and achieve pages will add up to a large presence by the election. Multiplied together, we can create an overwhelming array of hypertext organizing.
