Former presidential candidate Howard Dean, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, showed how the Internet could be used as a powerful tool to motivate partisans and raise money, said Joe Losco, chairman of the Ball State University political science department.
"It does less of a job to encourage people to go out and vote," Losco added.
The BSU professor said he did not believe Welsh's Internet campaign activity would move the 6th congressional district to the Democratic column.
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I know for a fact that this site and other sites are motivating people to vote, to get active, and to take our country back, so...
I disagree with this professor, the Netroots has made a difference, and the internet is playing a key roll in this race. I am not going to go into all of the detail, but the guy is wrong.
Now, we are not just an internet campaign, but the tubes are a valuable piece of what we are trying to do. Just go back several months and read a few diaries of mine, and you will see that we are on track and where we have planned to be all along.
This campaign of ours is peaking at just the right time.
The Official "Netroots Candidates" for the most part are getting party support, or special interest support, as well as netroot support.
We are getting support from two sources, people in this district, and YOU! The netroots.
IF we win on election night, the Party can't say they won it, the special interest can't say they won it, The corporations can't say they made it happen, but You Can!
As a matter of fact, we are at $9,948.52 in funding from the netroots, just about to break the $10,000 barrier and that is from 249 donors. THANK YOU ALL!
We have been asking for $12.00 donations, because that is the average cost of a 60 second radio commercial in the district. We plan to run 2 spots a day for the first week, 4 for the second, and 6 a day during election week. That is 92 spots per station. We will be starting tomorrow on a station in the North, one in the West, and one in the east Central section. We want to build it to 10 stations across the 19 counties.
I want you to know where your contributions are going if you choose to give, so that is why we are laying this all out.
We have a targeted GOTV phone plan and have people going door to door in almost every county, some are printing off things from the web and doing it on their own! We have a cable ad and targeted mailers ready if the funds are there, but we are set with a bare bones plan in place if we don't raise another dollar, so the game is on and we are playing it till the end.
I am on the ground daily at restaruants, bowling alleys, on campus, at supermarkets, union meetings, anywhere there are people. I am on the phone constantly trying to raise money, 10 and 20 dollars at a time, because that is all the disposable income available. But we are making it happen, day by day.
This campaign is honestly going to make an impact on November 7th.
Again, thanks to YOU!
Barry Welsh Indiana 6th District Democratic Congressional Candidate.