Run Through the Tape!
By Drew McKissick
When you’re just a few days out from an election, it can be tempting to slow down. Everyone is tired and getting burned out. And with early voting stretching out the final push, it can feel like the election will never end. This is when you need to find your second wind and keep up…
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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 Manage Political Volunteers
By Drew McKissick
American politics and public policy is moved by its citizens; specifically, ACTIVE citizens. It’s all about people. People work for candidates in their campaigns, cast ballots on Election Day, and then lobby those elected officials to help shape public policy once they get into office. But given that so few people actually do participate in…
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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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The Most Important Elements of Political Success
By Drew McKissick
Getting involved is one thing. Sticking with it is something else. Over two thousand years ago a Roman general wanted to prove to his soldiers that perseverance in combat was more important than strength. He had two horses brought before his men, one was a healthy stallion and the other was an old nag. He…
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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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Are You Building the Political Farm Team?
By Drew McKissick
Most every professional baseball player that you see has spent time in the minor leagues before they got a chance to play in the big leagues. Nobody lasts forever, and eventually somebody has to move up and take someone else’s place. It’s why teams spend so much time and money recruiting and developing new talent.…
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What are you going to do about it?
By Drew McKissick
Do you spend more time than you would like complaining about things going on in government? That’s not unusual. In fact, it’s pretty much a prerequisite (or at least a direct symptom) of democracy. Government is run by imperfect people who represent a lot of other imperfect people with a lot of different philosophies and…
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The 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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