Zitat des Tages: Mittwoch, 18. April 2012 – “Building the biggest grassroots campaign in history”
Mittwoch, 18. April 2012 15:15
Mr Obama’s campaign team also wants to emulate his success in 2008 in another way, by creating a huge network of volunteers, recruited and co-ordinated in large part online, to proselytise on his behalf. There is much talk of “building the biggest grassroots campaign in history”. So Mr Obama’s footsoldiers are trying to contact as many potential supporters as possible in person, either online or through carefully orchestrated door-knocking drives and telephone banks. That, in turn, has racked up big bills for internet advertising and office overheads.
This approach has multiple virtues. Voters are more likely to respond to a friend’s political urgings than to a television advertisement or a flyer, according to Mr Obama’s strategists. Direct contact with a large pool of potential voters allows Mr Obama to present his own pitch, unfiltered by the media, and the campaign’s technical wizardry will ensure that it is tailored to the recipient. That should be especially valuable this time, since the media is less enamoured of the president than it once was, and since changes in election laws have made it much easier for pressure groups to spend vast sums to influence the election. Personalised e-mails, phone calls and appeals from friends or neighbours, the theory runs, should help counter the flood of negative advertising. Even better, such an approach dovetails neatly with efforts to register new voters. The campaign sees lots of potential to add young people and Hispanics, in particular, to the rolls in swing states—and has already started.
Thema: US Wahl 2012, Zitat des Tages | Kommentare (0) | Autor: medispolis

