The Campaign Workshop Blog

Don't Make the Wrong Move with Your Independent Expenditure Campaign

Many people think about creating an independent expenditure campaign (IE campaign), but very few will actually take the time to do it. If you don't know a lot about Independent campaigns check out our IE FAQ here.  I start IE campaigns trying to accomplish two goals: Do no harm (to your candidate). A poorly run IE campaign can hurt more than it helps. Make…

Political Organizers Top Campaign Tips for Data Entry:

For political organizers, data entry and turf cutting are the two most likely tasks that will be keeping you up late into the night. Unlike cutting turf, which can be strangely comforting, data entry is only really enjoyable when it is complete. So to help out political organizers still in the field we have compiled a short list of tips to make data entry a bit easier. 1. There are a number of campaign tools now…

No Hate for LGBT Candidates

One week after we put our blog up, I received anti-gay hate mail from a woman named Sharon Kass. I was going to just ignore this, but after thinking about it and Googling her, I felt I needed to respond. See, Sharon is a prolific letter writer who sends out hate-filled letters when someone is mentioned in an article on LGBT issues. There is even a Change.org petition asking her to stop sending these letters. The body of…