It's down to the last 24 hours before the Texas primary.... if you're not here for the ground game, is there anything you can do to help from afar?
Yes.
Checkout these Obama-boosting YouTube videos, and email links to your favorites -- or forward my entire YouTube playlist (24 & counting) -- to everybody you know who has friends in Texas, and especially to everybody you know who could write and send-along a personal email note.... especially if they can do it in Spanish!
El Paso's Favorite Obama YouTube Videos
About a third of these videos are in Spanish. About half are creative music videos, produced by grassroutes creative musicians and musical artists. All of them support Obama's message in a way that is relevant to the culture and concerns of folks along the Rio Grande, in West & South Texas.
If you want to have more background & analysis on what's happening here, please see my El Paso diary from last week: "Hill, Bill, & Chelsea visited my town this week -- but I wanna see Barack (poll)"
(Update on above diary: Bill & Hillary are expected in El Paso yet again, later today! That's a lot of visits to otherwise-always-ignorable El Paso... so we need YOUR help to support Obama victory here!)
Today my purpose is to trigger as much of a "Blitz the Border" viral-video campaign as we can in the final hours before voting begins.
So here's the idea: Texas-2-Step it --
First, remind your friends to remind their friends about the special Texas primary + caucus system
Second, email your friends & family all over with a request for them to email their friends & family who live in Texas with a request to show these videos to everybody who would enjoy them, and especially to people who are not already "plugged in" to the web & netroots.
When we viralize these videos, and get them viewed by people outside the online community -- by people who normally watch TV -- we are doing what no "media buy" can accomplish.
The most time-consuming steps have already been done:
- Dedicated creative artists made wonderful heartfelt videos...
- ...and posted them on YouTube
- I put in dozens of hours finding and collecting the best ones over the past few weeks...
- ... and made a unified YouTube playlist, with a single URL that takes people to all of them.
So please help with the next 2 steps:
5) Write a personal note, including this YouTube playlist link, to your friends and family who aleady are passionate about Obama, and email it out. It doesn't matter where they live... the key is that they care about getting Obama elected... and hopefully they will do #6:
- In your note, you asked people to write, in Spanish if possible, a personal sentence or two, introducing what you have written, and then sending the whole thing along to people they know in Texas (and people they know who know people in Texas, etc)... especially along the border... and especially into places like El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville, and San Antonio.
- (optional) Please help increase the visibility of this diary. Recommend if you feel inclined. If 100 Kossacks send average of 40 each and if enough of those end up going viral.... we could produce 100,000 - 200,000 video viewings in the next 24 hours.... Now if 1000 out of the 1000000 dKos visitors participated..... :)
Gracias!