Three Fundamentals of Political Campaigns
By Drew McKissick
It’s a fundamental truth of politics that if you don’t win, you can’t govern. You can’t implement policy if you aren’t elected to a position that allows you to do so, or if you don’t have sympathetic elected officials that are willing to help. With that being the case, it’s critical that conservatives know the…
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How to Leverage Campaign Contributions
By Drew McKissick
If you have been involved in politics or helped with campaigns for any length of time, then you have learned how important money is to the political process. The old saying that “money is the mother’s milk of politics” is true, but there’s a deeper truth there than just the importance of money, but rather…
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Identifying Conservatives for Action
By Drew McKissick
Whether we like it or not, few things matter in politics quite as much as numbers. Fortunately for all of us non-math majors out there, it doesn’t involve higher order calculus, but rather the most basic varieties of arithmetic: addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. When it comes to organizing and being politically effective, the most…
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Politics is Spelled P.E.O.P.L.E.
By Drew McKissick
Politics is all about people. People agreeing, disagreeing and how they do it. Successful politics is about identifying MORE people that agree with you and working together to get something done on the things that you care about. Without people, you have no organization. Without organization, you have no campaign. Without a campaign, you have…
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Informing Conservatives for Action
By Drew McKissick
It is one thing to identify other people who care about the same things as you do, but an uninformed group of people, no matter what the size, isn’t well equipped to have much of an impact on anything. They’ve got to be informed. Here are some basic steps you can take to inform conservatives…
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How to Target Your Grassroots Lobbying Efforts
By Drew McKissick
One of the most important questions to answer before starting any grassroots lobbying campaign is “who” are you going to lobby? In pretty much every campaign there is a limited amount of time and resources available, and you want to get the most out of them both. That means targeting them where they can make…
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How conservatives can impact the political system
By Drew McKissick
So, you want to make a difference in the political system on the things you care about? But how should you go about it? When it comes to being effective politically, there’s no great mystery. But there are some time tested basics to successfully impacting the political system. Generally speaking, there are three keys to…
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How to Plan Grassroots Organization
By Drew McKissick
So just how DO you get started with creating a local grassroots organization? It’s simple and doesn’t take a lot of time, but action is critical. We all know the hardest part of “doing” anything is getting started. Having a plan makes it possible. Fail to plan, plan to fail Map out a plan of…
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Three reasons for conservative online organization
By Drew McKissick
Given that politics is all about people, it’s a natural fit for the Internet and online social networks. In many ways the Internet is the ultimate “precinct” in America’s politics, in that everyone “lives” there. The overwhelming majority of registered voters have online access, and huge (and increasing) percentages of them regularly access political information…
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Political List Building for Success
By Drew McKissick
In most any serious political endeavor, one of the first things that you (and those working with you) need to do is to start making lists. Whether you’re just a budding activist with a burr in your britches about something, or a potential candidate for office, you won’t have much success without knowing who could…
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