With Barack Obama's record donation count, (just last month alone $150 million), combined with his earnings throughout this campaign, Senator Obama currently has enough money to buy hundreds of 30 minute slots on TV, but now his next concern will be what to do with the excess money he's raised.
Read more »What to Do With Leftover Campaign Money
Quantify where the campaign money is going and why you need more.
It's time to intersperse all of your online fundraising messages with some notes to supporters that tell WHY you need more money, WHAT you're going to spend it on, and HOW their sacrifice and donation will make a crical difference.
It should be simple, to the point. But it should be more substantial than just saying, "We need more cause the other side's got more."
Read more »Donations from outside USA?
I live in Canada, even though I'm British; due to those facts I can not influence my preference for the next leader of the free world by sending a donation.
Read more »The "One Hour in Iraq" Fundraiser: $18 million dollars in one hour
With a rate of $5000/sec for the cost of the Iraq war, the campaign should develop a net-roots fund drive to raise as much funds in one hour as it costs to fund the war for that hour (~$18,000,000). This will provide a real world link between the Iraq war and the checkbook for most Americans.
Read more »Niche Demographics- Homosexuals, Jews, Cubanos, Asian Americans
Obama should market himself to niche markets- minority populations often ignored by political campaigns. With an interview at a gay newspaper or, as the campaign recently began doing, meetings at synagogues or with Cuban exile groups. Asian Americans have also been largely ignored. Reach out to smaller, more networked groups, to sweep up often ignored votes.
Read more »Coincide a fundraiser with Barack's upcoming birthday
The campaign should challenge supporters to donate $47 as a birthday gift for Barack's 47th birthday, coming up on August 4th. Fun donation drives like this seem to get a better response from those who may have given once or twice before.
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How should Obama respond to McCain's negative campaign?
Stay above the fray - this campaign is about a new kind of politics
7%
Respond forcefully when necessary but keep talking about the issues
51%
Respond forcefully and hit back hard but make everything pass the truth test
36%
Get in the gutter with McCain and beat him at his own game
3%
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4%
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