Elizabeth, 59, from Austin, Texas wanted a way to get involved in the Obama campaign but as a busy English professor, she didn’t find herself with a lot of time to spare. “I’m a guilty supporter,” she says. "I would like to be out registering voters, but I don’t have much free time. So donating money is the best thing I can do – it’s easy and takes almost no time. "Elizabeth set up a grassroots fundraising page on her My.BarackObama.com account in order to get friends to donate as well and to do as much as she could for the campaign. She emailed friends and family to donate and was pleased with the enthusiastic results. “The ‘remind’ feature was especially helpful. People liked getting the reminder to donate.”One things that Elizabeth found especially effective was posting a diary on DailyKos with a link to her donate page. She posted the diary on August 4, Barack’s birthday, and challenged people to donate $47 as a birthday gift to Barack. She’s hoping to do another Kos fundraiser soon.She just started her personal fundraising page just three weeks ago and has already raised over $900.Elizabeth has one important tip for people starting their own personal fundraising pages:
Re-write the message and personalize it. I wrote the email differently for different people, so it looked like an email from me rather than from the campaign. It’s all part of the grassroots idea.
Elizabeth supports Barack because she like his ideas.
My politics are more ideological than personal. My biggest concern is the war. His speech about not being again war but being against this dumb war really resonates with me. I have a 22-yer-old son, and if there was a draft, my son could be drafted. So the war matters to me. I’m also concerned about the environment and like Barack’s ideas on that issue. And the economy as well – his tax plan is going to help a lot of people. Everything else he wants to do is just gravy.
Elizabeth is just glad that she had a candidate to stand behind. "I’ve had a severe case of political depression," she explained. "And Barack Obama is the first thing that’s cheered me up in eight years.”Setting up a personal donor page is a great way to get more involved in the campaign and bring others into our movement. You can join Elizabeth and supporters like her by starting your own personal fundraising page on my.barackobama.com.
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