So you lost your election … now what?

American Majority is just the zenith of grassroots training organizations. The videos, presentations, and podcasts they have on their website are first rate, full of practical information from subject matter experts. I’ve taken one of their day long training classes, and watched and listened to many of their online trainings. Spending an hour a week on their website learning how to do what we tea party patriots need to do to would NEVER be a waste of your time!

Recently they published two blogs that are helpful to those first time candidates who are in the “citizen patriot” category … regular folks like us who have just had ENOUGH! and decided to courageously run for office. Some of those folks won their races, some lost. There were lots of lessons learned, and I expect many of those first time candidates to run again in the next election cycle, and I expect many of them will win their elections this time as we all race up the learning curve of election politics.

For now … read these two American Majority blogs and be encouraged, continue to work, and begin laying out plans for next time!

From Brett Farley:
So you lost your election-now what?

It’s not the best feeling in the world. But this year is too important to not stay involved! What we do this year will determine how free we are in 20 years, who we are as a nation, whether my children will grow up to be able to start their own businesses and buy their own homes. Your leadership on the campaign trail is needed still. The lessons you learned are valuable for others, and the skills you gained need to applied in another campaign that is going on right now, today.

From Beka Romm
Campaign lessons from the Oklahoma primary

Particularly in down-ballot and local races, as much as 40-60 percent of voters don’t take the time to research the candidates. They simple go with the name most familiar to them. If you’ve run before, you’re as much as 20% more likely to win by running again simply because voters are already familiar with you. Here’s the lesson, boys and girls: if at first you don’t succeed, run, run again.

August 8, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tea Party, Training/Resources

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