We need volunteers to help with Campaign Underground 2006!

[Skinner]

Now that the year is drawing to a close, it's time for Democratic Underground to start gearing up for the 2006 elections. As part of this effort, we are looking for volunteers to help collect and organize information for Campaign Underground 2006.

We're going to do this project a little differently this time than we did two years ago. The DU Admins felt that the database we set up in 2004 was too limited and too difficult to maintain. This year, we have decided to set up Campaign Underground as a collection of Open Edit threads in our new Research Forum. An Open Edit thread works kind of like a wiki; They permit all registered DU members to work collaboratively to collect and edit information. Once you all familiarize yourselves with how Open Edit threads work, it should be much easier to update and maintain Campaign Underground than it was last year. For a detailed explanation of how to edit an Open Edit thread, please read this topic.

This is a big project, and we're going to need lots of people to help out. Fortunately, the job won't be quite as difficult as last year, because we can copy a lot of the information we collected in 2004 into the new format without having to start from scratch. When you update your state, make sure that you check Campaign Underground 2004 so you don't have to do the same work that someone else has already done.

I will create the templates for all the 50 states, and I will link each of them directly from the Top of the Research Forum and the Campaign Underground 2006 page so you can easily find the page you are looking for.

Once the templates are set up, you all can start filling in the blanks. We're going to start by collecting political and campaign information. We need a whole bunch of volunteers to sign up to collect information for each state. If you are interested in helping out with a particular state, please post in this thread with the name of the state in the title of your post (or you can edit your name directly into the Campaign Underground 2006 page, below the state you wish to help out with).

Once you have signed up for your state, find the page for that state and start filling in the blanks. Links to all the state pages will be available at the Top of the Research Forum and on the Campaign Underground 2006 page.

Thank you in advance for all of your help on this project.

Skinner, EarlG, Elad
DU Administrators

[northzax]

1. how is this late breaking news? hmm? ALERT!!

I suppose I could have just kicked it, but where's the fun in that?

[wtbymark]

2. I'd be glad to help with Vermont

[Skinner]

3. I have put you down for Vermont

:thumbsup:

[WhereThereIsFire]

4. Yes, I'll work for Florida

[WhereThereIsFire]

5. Info on Florida

I'm new & don't have enough posts credited to "edit" on the Florida page. But, there are a couple of things that should be added or changed. For the governor's race, it has "incumbent" out from the Democratic list ... would that it were so ... the incumbent, ineligible to run in 2006 (thank you lord) is GWB's chubby brother. So, that incumbent should be removed ... no one will run as an incumbent this year.

And for Democratic candidates for governor, front runner at the moment is Jim Davis. His website is: http://www.jimdavis2006.com/main.cfm

Someone who can edit, please make those changes.

Thanks.