Ron Amundson’s Political Blog

Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | State Updates: 1,282,000 Calls and Counting; Let’s Hit 1.5 Million by Tomorrow

The call counter keeps going up and up, in fact so much so, the phone call server is having difficulty keeping up with the demand. Its pretty amazing… albeit a little frustrating at the same time, especially if one scheduled a time slot to do phone banking. Thus, Julie at Barack’s Inspired Phone Bank Army came up with a great idea when the server gets overloaded, (or the time slot for calls expires) Go blog commenting!

Its actually a bit more than that, its targeted blogging in the states of interest. Newspapers and media outlets often times have blogs, and there is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there. Thus, for the times we can’t get on the phone, we can put effort into getting the right information into voters hands. The issues pages are a huge resource in this regard.

Another opppurtunity includes targeting the blogs located in states of interest. The goal is to provide correct information, or help someone who is undecided or cynical to vote for Barack. Arguing with diehard Clinton supporters is likely not the best use of the little time we have left to work with.

We have only about 23 hours left, the phones are our best strategy, short of being on the ground, but prudent blog commenting can also help when the phone server is overloaded. If you do however go down the path of blog commenting, make an entry, and then retry the phone call server, it does come back now and then, and folks are getting through, albeit intermittently.