Politics the Wellstone Way How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues

Name: Politics the Wellstone Way How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
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ISBN: 9780816646654

ISBN-10: 0816646651

ISBN-13: 9780816646654

Edition: 2005

Authors: Wellstone Action Wellstone Action Wellstone Action, Bill Lofy

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During the past four years, political activism has grown to a level that has not been seen in the United States since the Vietnam War. Tensions over the war in Iraq and the presidential election motivated hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the political fence to take to the streets. Politics the Wellstone Way offers a comprehensive set of strategies to help progressives channel that energy into winning issue-based and electoral campaigns. Wellstone Action is a nonprofit organization dedicated to continuing Paul and Sheila Wellstone’s fight for progressive change and economic justice by teaching effective political action skills to people across the country. Politics the…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



About This Book



Introduction: Politics the Wellstone Way



Starting Out Right: Preparation and Planning



Delivering a Winning Message



Base Building



Communications



Field Organizing and Direct Voter Contact



Budget and Fundraising



Scheduling for Electoral Campaigns



Get Out the Vote (GOTV)



Advocacy, Lobbying, and Winning on Issues



Sustaining Progressive Change


Appendixes



"Coordinated Campaign": Field Plan from the 2002 Minnesota Democratic Party Effort to Reelect Paul Wellstone and Other Democrats



Wellstone for Senate 2002 Community of Color Organizing Plan: Minnesota's Hmong Community



Action Planning Template


Acknowledgments


About Paul Wellstone


Index