Recruiting volunteers and registering voters are key parts of our strategy, especially over these next two months. Motivating and mobilizing voters has always been one of the goals of this campaign, and with the help of grassroots supporters across the country we have a chance to change the electoral map this November.The two main methods of voter contacts are phonebanking and canvassing (going door to door to talk with voters). As part of today's training, attendees were given tips for voter contact:
Be yourself. Tell your story about why you personally support Barack. Listen attentively. Ask questions about what issues matter to the people you’re talking with. Ask why they care about those issues personally.If you don’t know the answer, be honest. Just write down the question, the person’s name and number and go find an answer from a staff person or on our web-site and follow up with the person. Listen for themes and write them down. Pay close attention to what types of people are on your call list or walk list. Are they raising similar concerns? If so what could you do to follow up? Host a house meeting on that issue? Or get them on a policy call with staff?Don’t get discouraged. You will find people are very busy and can sometimes be rude. It has nothing to do with you, and if you keep going you will find more supporters.
During this session, attendees were given call scripts and their skills were put to use. If you are not at a Camp Obama this weekend, you can still use these tips to phone bank from home or to register voters.
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