Neighborhood Organizing Actions WIN Elections

The most impactful actions that individuals and patriot organizations can pursue to “Take Back Your Government” are: targeted door-to-door canvassing, volunteer phone calls, and local meetings. These three Precinct Organizing actions have the strongest statistical correlation with Getting-Out-The-Vote and winning elections according to Get Out The Vote, Second Edition: How to Increase Voter Turnout , which was written by two Yale Professors, Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber, and published in 2008.

These findings are corroborated by Robert A. Heinlein, who wrote Take Back Your Government in 1946, based on his own experience in politics. He states: “Remember at all times …the votes are in the precincts. … Club meetings are primarily to arouse and hold together your volunteers …Rallies are for morale building primarily and secondarily for publicity. …It isn't hard to get adherents to your cause. …Volunteer campaigns should not cost much… Elections are not won with dollars.”

Net, Precinct Organizing methods worked in 1946 and are still relevant today! You can use our website to learn all about Precinct Organizing best practices.

November Election Strategy

Elections are won first, by messaging to inform voters what candidates stand for and then, by Getting-Out-The-Vote (GOTV). If you approach registered voters not yet affiliated with patriot organizations with a message of concern that career politicians are bankrupting our country, and then advocate the Constitutional principles of limited government, free markets, and individual liberties, you will find that 70-80% of people already agree with you based on recent CNN, Fox, and Rasmussen polling. In other words, the messaging part of winning elections for conservative candidates has already occurred. Much credit goes to the Tea Party movement for this development because it has awakened the Silent Majority with its many rallies, press releases/ conferences, and social networking.

Consequently, we need only focus on Getting-Out-The-Vote (GOTV). Based on a strategic planning SWOT analysis, this plays right into the patriot movement’s key strength; that is, we have many passionate and well-informed volunteers who are willing to work for free. This mitigates our weakness of not having much money. While Napoleon states “The morale is to the physical in war as three is to one", Heinlein states in his book, Take Back Your Government , that “In politics the ratio expressed by Napoleon is nearer ten to one.”

Net, our patriot movement, with its focus on limited government, free markets, and individual liberties, is ideally suited to leverage its strongest asset of informed, passionate volunteers to Getting-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) and winning elections!

States Are Mobilizing with Neighborhood Organizing

We continue to be motivated by the many patriots and organizations around the country who are coming to the realization that Precinct Organizing methodologies are required to win elections this November and beyond.  

As we travel the country, we speak to regional and state leaders about Precinct Organizing, Candidate Nights, and Voter Guides in an effort to get them started. Most recently, in collaboration with Kimberly Fletcher, President of Homemakers for America and founder of the Abigail Adams Voter Guide Project, we gave presentations in Orlando, Florida to about eighty patriot organization leaders from throughout the State of Florida. This followed an earlier trip to Naples, Florida during which we gave presentations to patriot leaders in Florida’s southwest region. While in Orlando, Peter Wolf was interviewed by free-lance reporter, John Sipos, who has his own radio talk show in the Florida market. Closer to home, we gave our presentation to over eighty southwest Ohio Community Tea Party and 9/12 Project organization leaders on June 12^th. This content was also presented to the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN on February 6, 2010 and streamed live on C-SPAN and PJTV.

Obviously, we can’t be everywhere. That is why, on our homepage, we make available free downloads of our presentations and backup material, and provide video of our prior presentations. Clearly, we are trying to enable the many state and regional leaders with this material so they can provide the training themselves. The success of this approach is evident in Utah’s caucus results, in which an incumbent representative was voted out of office in favor of the more conservative contenders. Warren Edstrom had been working with Utah leadership to teach them Precinct Organizing methodologies since September of last year. We are also aware, through discussions with leaders in Iowa, California, and Oregon, that they are using our website content to train patriot organizations across their states. In fact, a few of the Oregon leaders will be presenting our PowerPoint slides to about three-hundred fifty patriot leaders on Saturday, June 19^th.