Friday, January 25, 2008

The Huckster and His Manager

I am in Little Rock going over our campaign plan for Florida while Governor Huckabee prepares for the debate in Florida this evening on MSNBC at 9 PM ET. Our plan calls for every Huckabee supporter to get involved in helping us identify and turnout Huckabee supporters in Florida and the Super Tuesday states. Let me explain.

Late yesterday afternoon we launched an online phone bank designed to give campaign supporters, no matter where you live, the ability to help identify Huckabee supporters in Florida and then turn them out to vote. Our plan is to use this same online phone bank to help us make calls into the Super Tuesday primary states as well.

Prior to votes being cast in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, hundreds of volunteers made phone calls from our campaign headquarters in each of these states. These phone calls helped us turn out our supporters and led us to victory in Iowa and a strong second place finish in South Carolina.

We believe that as we head into Florida and the Super Tuesday states, we need to build beyond our volunteer phone bank in Orlando and nationalize our voter outreach efforts. That’s where you come in… we need your help to make personal appeals to voters in Florida to ask for their support of Governor Huckabee. The online phone bank is a great, easy to use tool that we created to help us nationalize our effort. We have identified over 200,000 Florida voters we would like to contact by Sunday at 8pm.

Will you contact 10 voters on Governor Huckabee's behalf? 25 voters? 50 voters or more? To get started you must join the Rangers (free!) here. If you are already a Ranger you can login here.

We have provided short, telemarketing scripts for you to use. Each call will take no longer than 30 seconds of your time. By using our online phone bank tool you will be able to access real voter records and mark them in the database as Huckabee supporters after you contact them. These identified voters can then be easily pulled together and called again prior to the January 29 Florida primary vote, encouraging them to turn out and vote. Nationalizing this effort will give us the ability to contact more potential Huckabee voters than our Orlando phone bank is able to do.

Will you help us make calls before Sunday at 8pm? We are counting on your support.

All hands on deck. Please make at least one call today for our team. To get started you must join the Rangers (free!) here. If you are already a Ranger you can login here.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Chip Saltsman

National Campaign Manager


AND THEN:

was just catching up on some emails after the debate. I saw Chip's email going out earlier today and wanted to followup up with you personally about these calls. Please make a few, if you can, each day until Sunday. We need your help. A new Rasmussen poll has us gaining 4 points over the last three days. We are two points behind Governor Romney and closing in on Senator McCain. These calls will help expand our base of support.

As Chip said, each call takes less than 30 seconds of your time. You must be a Ranger (it's free!) to make calls, click here to sign up. And if you are already a Ranger click here to get started.

Also, if you can afford to, please make a contribution of $25 or more today. We need your financial support. We are targeting another $750,000 raised online before the Florida primary vote on January 29. The money we raise will be put to work immediately on our efforts in the Super Tuesday states.

We won in Iowa because we worked and sacrificed as a team. Now more than ever we need that same level of dedication.

With deep gratitude,

Mike Huckabee

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