California Republican Party – We Want to Help
At Operation Red State we’re committed to helping State Republican Parties become winners online. California is in trouble and it needs new and fresh conservative leadership. We’d like to bring our multimedia membership site to my former state and begin coaching, guiding, and driving the online success of conservatives running for office. If you are connected to the California Republican Party, we’d like to chat.
GOP Auto-Dialer None Too Happy with My Response
Yesterday I received an auto-dial call from the GOP. The caller politely asked me if I’m a registered Republican and whether I am concerned with the way things are going in Washington, etc. Then he asked me for $100. My response was that I’m giving, volunteering, and working for individual candidates that will uphold my principles and that my money is best spent building from the ground up. The caller roughly said good luck as the “disconnect” button was being pushed.
Everyone has their hand out right now. How do you make choices over national party and local candidate giving? Do you ration your giving? I see direct results of my local work..but sending $100 into the GOP ether not so much.
To Early to Tell Who’s Winning the Twitter War?
Filed under: News, Red Alert Dossier, Social Media, twitter
The oh so unbiased news outlet *snicker*, Newsweek, posted an article a while ago about the Twitter war between the left and the right. While interesting, the article was flawed and missing some key conclusions. I’ve always based my opinion of Twitter accounts on the quantity of Tweets, quality of Tweets, quantity of Followers and quality of Followers. I think this is very good data in determining who is truly effective at Tweeting. Newsweek claims it’s too early to say so let’s take a look at the facts they used to decide to be indecisive.
“TweetCongress.org, a directory of members of Congress on Twitter, lists 101 Republicans on the site and just 57 Democrats.”
There are nearly twice as many from the GOP tweeting than from the left. They meet the first quantity test as a group. They are more active on Twitter, simple as that.
“The five highest-ranking Republicans on Tweet Congress, led by McCain, have a combined 1.3 million followers. The top 10 Democrats, have about 72,000.”
Here we are again, the top 5 of the GOP is beating the top 10 of the dems by 99.9%. If that’s not dominance in quantity I don’t know what would be.
“Tweet Congress shows that members from both parties are largely using the site to promote their legislative goals and accomplishments. But conservatives tweet more provocatively, and they draw more notice as a result.”
GOP tweeters are more active and from my own personal experience they actually engage the audience. They create discussion amongst their following. Best of all, they make the news in an environment where the drive-by media ignores the truth on a regular basis. Newsweek reports this active tweeting is out of desperation or a survival tactic because they’re in the minority. While I’m not so naive as to think that there aren’t any GOP politicians tweeting merely for personal gain, this is not out of desperation, rather, out of duty to their constituents and American to communicate. When PBO gets an obscene number of followers it’s change & hope and hope & change; when it’s Sarah Palin it’s a fluke or a plan contrived from hell along side Satan and the other “GOP demons.”
Hands down, conservatives own Twitter. Don’t try and take this one from us Newsweek or we’ll all block you for your pages of inane conjecture. I’m not saying there aren’t any from the left that are using Twitter very effectively. I give props out to those that are. But don’t waste my time with an article that doesn’t even make sense.
Newsweek said, “Twitter strategies on both sides of the aisle are radically different, and the way liberals have been using the service may turn out to be more effective in the long run.”
Just like the looming national health care plan…full of talk but no clear answers, Newsweek’s “journalist”, Aku Ammah-Tagoe, doesn’t extrapolate on a few key things most amateur journalists would have after such a presumptive statement.
- How are the strategies radically different?
- What are the strategies of both parties?
- Why will the alleged strategy of the Dems prove more effective?”
- Who are the ones employing any particular strategy?
- When did these strategies first get employed?
Pretty basic questions he DIDN’T EVEN ASK AFTER STATING THEY ARE RADICALLY DIFFERENT AND THE LIBERAL METHOD USED MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE! You failed to ask and answer EVEN ONE!!! Seriously, Aku, leave online branding to the marketers, and journalism to the journalists. I know that leaves you out of the picture, but, oh well. The only radical difference in strategies I see is that one is succeeding and the other, collectively, is a complete and utter failure.
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