Doubling Down in NH

The Young Voter PAC is doubling down in NH…and we need you to do the same. We just got back from Iowa. We are elated that the media and political establishment is talking about young voters as real voters...not a mythical creature, an elusive bloc or just us as great volunteers. Everyone is truly talking about the huge impact young people made on the win for Obama in Iowa and the role they will have in upcoming primaries.

So, we decided, even though its only a few days away to go into NH.

* We just deployed a text message to 96k 18-30 year olds (Dems and Indys) in NH. A follow up email will go out on Monday.

* We are offering gas money again to students who might be on winter break.

* We are setting up a peer to peer call system to help folks find their polling location.

* We are buying facebook, google, newspaper and blog ads.

* We will go on tv as much as possible getting the word out.

Most of all, we need your help with this.

We had not planned on going into NH so this is a fast job to pull off.

Can you send to your list (or even your circle of friends) the email below? We need folks that are willing to volunteer to help folks find their polling location and we need help on facebook getting the word out (e.g. we also need folks willing to go all around facebook and look up NH groups and young people and tell them about the pledge and gas money).

I am open to other suggestions of what else we can be doing in this short period to try and help increase turnout.

Let me know if you have any questions or other ideas. I can be reach at jane@youngvoterpac.org.

EMAIL TO YOUR LIST + FRIENDS

The Young Voter PAC just left Iowa helping students get to their caucus sites and now they are headed to New Hampshire to help get the youth vote out. They need your help. If you can help them out, email Liz at weaver.eh@gmail.com. We’ve got to pull together in the next few days and do as much as we can to continue the youth vote story. Remember, we target young people and they show up. Let’s not let them down.

1) Volunteer to help make peer-to-peer calls from your house to folks in NH who need help finding their polling location, email weaver.eh@gmail.com if you can help out.

2) Get on Facebook and let folks know in your network that the Young Voter PAC is helping with gas money and helping young people find their polling location, join the Young Voter Pac’s group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16080515354 to stay updated with all activities.

3) If you go on tv to do media or if you write on a blog, please start talking about how young Iowans showed the power of the youth vote and that we need young folks in NH to do the same. Remind people we have gas money to help get them back to their campus polling site if needed (only one school is back in session, Dartmouth).