Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Organization Matters.

H/T to Patrick Ruffini for tipping me off to this great article on Hillary's organization in Nevada.

Zack Exley has been leading Democrats in organizing and online communications for several years. His resume includes organized Labor, Moveon.org, Dean and eventually Kerry-Edwards. He has also started a fascinating organization called The New Organizing Institute but that is deserving of its own post later.

He writes extensively about Hillary's highly organized effort in Nevada-

"The walls of Donahue's team office were covered with overlapping charts and lists of staff, their precinct captains, and other measures of their progress. But no numbers were put on the wall without a discussion of how they were achieved--and the lessons to be learned from the experience. In these nightly reporting sessions, regional directors went beyond mere numbers to debrief every conversation the organizers held that day with potential campaign workers as well as detailed plans for future recruitment, voter ID, persuasion and organization building."

Sound familiar BC04 veterans?

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