Ron Amundson’s Political Blog

Its pretty funny reading some of the comments on HRC’s phone bank ticker… Ie, at the rate they are going, its likely they will run out of potential voters to call in the near future. Thus, either the numbers are wild estimates, calculated based upon pledged activity time, the result of robocalls, so some combination of the above.

And we all hate robocalls, yet for some odd reason, they must be at least somewhat effective… maybe, or else the robocaller sales guy is one amazing sales dude.

Ultimately, though, what I think makes a difference with the Barack campaign, is the average Joe getting on the phone, and making calls. The website walks you right through the process, although I must admit the script may come across a bit stilted…. but its likely there to get over the initial fear factor of cold calling,  and how to go about doing so.

Granted, when I started, I only knew a few of the issues Barack had talked about, but over the past few days, I’ve been spending a lot of time on the issues and getting up to speed on both sides. For one, it reinforces why I am campaigning for him…I agree much much more than disagree with his views. Secondly, with confidence on the issues, phone banking is loads easier. Ultimately, I know personal phone banking is effective, despite my aversion to the phone, (I prefer text) and its actually not that hard… even on the early days, when I was quite the novice on issues, the scripting process made it pretty easy. A lot of folks rarely ask issues questions, but at least now, I can respond with a level of confidence, rather than saying, well uh, you can go to www.barackobama.com and then click on issues.

The other thing I found incredibly helpful, was this blog entry by marytnurse. It also is helpful to read some of the comments, both by folks who have had success, and others who ran into a difficult character. It is quite the encouragement and help.