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Second Cup - College Republicans Embrace the Internet While Campaigning for Candidates

Posted by Jordan Tuch
Mon, 2008-10-06 15:34

US candidates employ tech power, BBC News. 

Ethan Eilon from the collegerepublicans.org has been campaigning for the Republican Party through a network called Storm.

"It allows our members to join up with the rest of their chapter and the rest of their state organisation, get involved with events that are going on, communicate with one another.

"They also earn impact points so that we can then incentivise them to go out and do all the hard work that needs to be done between now and November," he said. 

Web-Use Reform Happy Ending, Sunlight Foundation.

In May of 2007, the Sunlight Foundation released the Open House Project report, which included an entire chapter on the issue of Franking Reform. That chapter, prepared by David All and Paul Blumental, has guided our advocacy and discussions of web use restrictions since then.

 

Second Cup - The College Republican Movement

Posted by Jordan Tuch
Thu, 2008-09-25 14:41

Barbera responds: College Republicans investing in success, College Democrats should try grown-up politics, CR Nation. 

On Aug. 27 we deployed a team of 50 full-time field representatives who are on college campuses around the country every day recruiting new members for the College Republicans and channeling those recruits into volunteer efforts. In the few weeks the team has been in the field, they have already recruited 46,875 new members. The field representative for the state of New Mexico has recruited 969 new members this month, including 297 at UNM alone.

Study: Omitting cell phone users may affect polls, Newsweek.

The finding, in a report this week by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, may increase pressure on polling organizations to include people who use only cell phones in their surveys. While many major polls including The Associated Press-GfK Poll already interview cell phone users, some do not, largely because doing so is more expensive.

 

WhereIsTheRed.com

Posted by Rob Willington
Tue, 2008-07-15 07:51

It all started while sitting in my office in Boston staring at the US Congressional red/blue map.  I was not looking for anything in specific, just admiring the differences around the country.  I then thought how cool it would be to drive from the Atlantic to the Pacific and remain entirely in Republican Congressional Districts.  I ran my eyes across the map and bumped into a few blue road blocks, but soon enough, I found a red route.  I then tried the same thing with blue congressional districts and thankfully failed at each attempt.  I think this red route says something about the broad demographic that endorses the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

As a former College Republican, I always loved the excitement of traveling to help out a Republican campaign.   Considering this is an election year, I saw a fantastic opportunity  for the CR's to travel from coast to coast, campaigning for GOP incumbents while never leaving a red district.

I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie Smith and Ethan Elion from the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) and we began to discuss this concept.  They loved the idea and they came up with some brilliant concepts.  Charlie and Ethan immediately saw the big picture - get CR's to travel in each congressional district to show the real world of campaigning.  Politics is not all about cocktail parties; it's about making phone calls, stuffing the envelopes, and knocking on the doors.  This is a unique opportunity to show how the CR's are the "unions of the right."

The CR's teamed up with David All and they have produced WhereIsTheRed.com which has perfectly executed this concept.  As I type, Kentucky is getting support from the WhereIsTheRed crew.  I love that each campaign stop concludes with placing the bumper sticker of that particular candidate on the back of the vehicle.  The road crew has a mission to end the campaigning portion of the trip in California, then visit the DNC convention in Denver and then finally concluding in Minnesota at the GOP convention.  You should follow WhereIsTheRed and then hopefully meet them in Minnesota if you plan on attending the convention.  Congrats to Charlie and Ethan for doing an amazing job and keep these CR's on the road in your prayers.


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