The following template is designed for a district-wide, local race. Be advised, depending on campaign factors specific to your race, you will probably need to tweak some of the numbers listed below. However, this chart is the best starting point for the goals of your local House or Senate race. The factors which will determine where you should shift your campaign funds include how much your    .. more …

In the fifteen years between 1993 and 2008, the state of Ohio lost over 230,000 taxpayers and close to $20 billion in adjusted gross income.  For both resident tax payers and businesses, Ohio’s high tax rates have been hurting the state’s economy for many years, and Thom Collier wants to do something about it.

Thom Collier, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, is a Senatorial candidate in the 19th Ohio    .. more …

If you are campaigning, or helping to run a campaign, a campaign button maker will be a useful tool to let voters know who you are and where you stand on issues. Instead of using one of these expensive and antiquated methods of yesterday, stick with the tried-and-true method of using campaign buttons.

Since President George Washington wore a brass campaign button at his inauguration in 1789,    .. more …

If you are running a political campaign, whether you are the candidate or the consultant, your list of campaign materials can be daunting.  You have to get the campaign signs, get the palm cards and make sure the staff has t-shirts and campaign buttons to pass out in the parade.  Add this to the never-ending list of other “to do’s” and your life just got complicated.

There is an easy and    .. more …

If you’ve made the decision to be a political candidate in a local election, then you’ve probably asked yourself how to campaign in an effective way in spite of the fact that you’ve never run for office before. There really aren’t any well-kept secrets when it comes to local campaign strategies, and most of it comes down to working hard and doing the best job you can on the campaign    .. more …

GOTV (Get Out the Vote) robocalls are a valuable campaign tool for candidates who are looking for a targeted and inexpensive method to remind voters about election information. Candidates or their spokespeople can send out pre-recorded messages via phone to thousands of voters simultaneously for a fraction of what it would cost to send campaign literature through the mail. Fact is, people do    .. more …

Political polarization is currently the bane of American life. We as a citizenry have become so pushed to the extremes of political opinion and action that we can barely hear each other. If you are not talking about what I want to hear the way I want to hear it, I cannot hear you. The same is true from your side. How in the world are we ever going to reach common ground if we cannot “listen” and    .. more …