Candidates win elections by mobilizing like-minded voters to vote in elections (Get-Out-The-Vote) and by informing these voters of their positions through messaging. While these combined campaign strategies are needed for specific candidates and issues, our patriot organization movement need only focus on mobilizing like-minded constituents to vote, since 70-80% of the population are already concerned that career politicians are bankrupting our country and thus are aligned with Constitutional principles of limited government, free markets, and individual liberties. Net, the messaging has already been accomplished!

Consequently, 70-80% of voters you contact as part of the Neighborhood Organizing block-walking or volunteer phone calling will be like-minded and will be receptive to voting for candidates aligned with our principles. Some will even want to join your patriot organization and the Neighborhood Organizing efforts. All you need to do to start the conversation with potential voters is ask if they too are concerned about career politicians bankrupting our country. Experience to date is proving this to be true! Even un-informed voters, once they are made aware of what is at stake, quickly align around the patriot organization principles as a basis for selecting political candidates!

To help with this block-walking or volunteer phone calling conversation we created a flyer, which you can download or print out, which captures key financial perspectives pertaining to our federal government’s budget and how government spending affects individual constituents and the private sector. Unlike our own home budgets, the flyer demonstrates that despite declining income due to taxes, the federal government continues to spend more than it takes in and thus creates ever more debt, which our children and grand-children will have to repay. The flyer also shows that while private-sector employment since 2007 is down by -6.8%, government employment is up by +12.2%.  For comparable jobs, government employees receive +85% greater total compensation than private-sector employees. Government spending has increased +242% since 1970, while Medium Household Income has only increased by +29%. (The Flyer content is also displayed on the sub-tabs for this section, i.e. the Federal Budget and GOV  $vs. YOU tabs.)

As affirmation that most constituents already understand what is at stake, note the several recent national polls of likely voters (Fox News – March 23, 2010; CNN – February 26, 2010; & Rasmussen – February 9, 2010) which confirm that a message advocating limited government, free markets, and individual liberties is highly relevant to voters and will have broad appeal. Key findings are as follows:

·       65% think the national debt is the greatest potential threat to the country’s future

·       79% of voters think that it is possible the economy could collapse, including large majorities of Democrats (72%), Republicans (84%), and Independents (80%).

·       84% of Republicans and 74% of Independents think the government is too big; while just over half of Democrats (51%) are okay with the size of government.

·       56% of people say they think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Breakdowns by party affiliation, of those who believe this, are: 37% of Democrats, 63% Independents, and 70% Republicans.

·       63% of likely voters believe that it would be better for the country if most incumbents in Congress were defeated this November

Importantly, in contrast to partisan persuasive messaging which is only relevant for one campaign and have no long term effect once the candidates move on or issues are resolved, using non-partisan Constitutional principles of limited government, free markets, and individual liberties as a basis for selecting candidates has lasting relevance!