Davis Fleetwood

Davis Fleetwood's most recent video was a criticism of Gravel's campaign, Kucinich's campaign, and all of the smaller campaigns just like them.  He said that it is hectic at those campaigns, that it is chaotic, and that it is hard to get anything accomplished.  He said that if we were serious about winning, we would conduct a more professional campaign.

While this seems harsh, it is true to a certain extent.  I'm not blaming anyone (it's probably mostly the lack of money's fault), but Gravel's campaign has been very disorganized.  We need to change that.

How do we do this?  I think we need a centralized place on the web where we can start to take some of this enthusiastic online support into the real world.  That is what the Obama campaign has done (I know, they're evil, blah blah blah, but IT WORKED) and it has worked fantastically.  They have a social networking site for Obama supporters called MyBo and they can call on people to do certain work there.  There are groups within it like "Pennsylvania construction workers for Obama" that divide everyone into smaller groups of supporters, which make it easier for the campaign to contact specific people when they need specific jobs done.

The Obama campaign also takes the name, zip code, and email address of everyone that goes to their rallies.  This brings their offline crowd online, which can then be turned into offline work through MyBo.

I think that if we took an approach loosely modelled after that, for both the National Initiative and the Gravel campaign, we could be a lot more successful.

I know that I am willing to do work offline for Gravel, and i have contacted the campaign multiple times, but never gotten a response.  Instead of people like me begging to do work, we should have the campaign asking all of its supporters - through a centralized network - to do offline work.

Anything to add?  Any other ideas?