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Beginner’s Guide to Building a Strong Political Organization

Today, we present The Beginner’s Guide to Building a Strong Political Organization, the fourth installment in our “Beginner’s Guide” Series. (If you haven’t already, be sure to check out The Beginner’s Guide to Political Communications, The Beginner’s Guide to Grassroots Campaigning and The Beginner’s Guide to Political Fundraising). Whether you are working on a campaign, building [...]

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Running for Office When You Have a Day Job

There are over 500,000 elected officials in the United States.  While many, including the Congress, Governors, some state legislators and big city mayors, etc. are full time jobs, the vast majority of elected positions are not full-time.  Most candidates in the U.S. are running for part-time slots, which means they’ll have full-time (“day”) jobs, both [...]

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How to Supersize Your Next Political Fundraising Event

Political fundraising events are part of the mix for almost every campaign, no matter how large or small.  Events can be a lot of work… between coordinating schedules and venue, sending out invitations, providing food and drink, setting-up and cleaning-up, campaigns can spend dozens of staff or volunteer hours prepping for a fundraising event. Yet, [...]

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3 Cheap Ways to Get Your Campaign Message Out

Most of the money a political campaign spends is spent on communicating a message to the voters.  TV ads are the most expensive way to communicate with the electorate, followed by radio ads and direct mail.   In many campaigns, all three of these methods are valid, and if you’ve been reading this site for awhile, [...]

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Announcing Local Victory’s Political Tip of the Day

We are proud to announce the debut of Local Victory’s Political Tip of the Day, available now on Twitter. If you use Twitter, you can now receive daily, bite-sized political tips directly from Local Victory.  These free tips will provide the same great advice on strategy, fundraising, grassroots politics and political campaigning that you have come to [...]

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Overcoming Your Biggest Roadblocks to Running for Office

Lots of people think about running for office.  Lots of people have great ideas about how their local, county, state, or national government should be run.  Lots of people are passionate about certain issues or causes, and want to make a real difference by serving in government.  Sadly, very few who think about running for [...]

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Beginner’s Guide to Grassroots Campaiging

Today, we present The Beginner’s Guide to Grassroots Campaigning, the third installment in our “Beginner’s Guide” Series.  (If you haven’t already, be sure to check out The Beginner’s Guide to Political Communications and The Beginner’s Guide to Political Fundraising). Working the grassroots is a vital component of any campaign, no matter how large or small.  For [...]

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How to Find Cheap Political Campaign Supplies

When in comes to political campaign supplies, local candidates often find themselves in a real bind: things like yard signs, bumper stickers, palm cards and campaign buttons can be extremely expensive.  Some campaigns try to save money by self-designing supplies… others decide to print far less signs and brochures than they need, in the hope [...]

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