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Nice piece on American Majority Action and Gravity
(Reuters) - Robin Milaeger whoops for joy and punches her fist in the air when the man at her door asks if she wants a yard sign supporting Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, who faces a contentious recall election on June 5.
Tuning up Turnout
As the presidential race shifts into high gear, American Majority, an organization that trains conservative grassroots activists around the country, is revving up its outreach efforts. It’s sponsoring a team on NASCAR’s nationwide series. But for American Majority, the real race is off the track, where the group targets NASCAR enthusiasts in hopes of boosting turnout in November.
Turning NASCAR Fans into Voters
There’s been chatter of late that the Democrats’ decision to hold their national convention in Charlotte this summer could create, as Bloomberg Businessweek called it, “an awkward fit.”
Conservatives relish the idea.
American Majority — and the NASCAR racecar it sponsors — hits the Charlotte Motor Speedway this weekend, and the group’s founder, Ned Ryun, is enjoying the storyline: that conservatives are descending on a town soon to be overrun with Democrats.
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Frontpage of the Greenville News
It’s been called “the track too tough to tame,” but Darlington Raceway is likely to be a friendly venue this weekend for a grassroots conservative political group called American Majority, which will be trying to energize NASCAR fans during the Bojangles Southern 500 to vote to “Keep America Free.”
Start Your Engines: The Race for NASCAR Votes
RICHMOND, Va — Conservative activists are racing to snag the pole position with NASCAR voters this election cycle.
While brand names like Skoal, Coca-Cola and Sprint competed for the hard-earned dollars of middle-class race fans on the midway of the Richmond International Speedway on a recent race day, the American Majority tent used race car simulators and patriotic banners to vie for something else: swing state voters. More than two dozen volunteers for the conservative group worked the race in Richmond on a recent weekend, trying to get fans not only to register to vote but to sign a pledge that they would make it to the polls in November.
Technology as a Weapon
The conservative political group American Majority Action (AMA) has spent $1,000,000 on new software that it intends to distribute to local ‘Tea Party’ groups to help them run election efforts on the ground.
According to the president of AMA, Drew Ryun, the software in question called ‘Gravity’ will “rocket conservatives past the high-tech approaches of the DNC and other progressive political groups.” Ever since the impressive technological efforts of the first Obama campaign, conservative groups have been working to close whatever digital gap that existed. Ryun also described the application as a “fusion of old-school grassroots tactics with the state-of-the-art technology.”
The Tea Party Goes Local
WASHINGTON — All is bleak. All is woe! I speak of the tea party movement, the movement of 2009 and 2010 that was the hot news story of those years and led to the Republican rout of the Democrats in 2010. Now the tea party movement is, according to reports in the media, in decline.
This is What Real Change Looks Like
At American Majority, we get the chance to witness events that definitively affirm our ongoing efforts to empower the conservative grassroots. We believe that national, generational change begins in your states and communities. This past Tuesday, we were fortunate to witness such change in Wisconsin, and I want to take a moment to share with you the fruits of our labor and the labor of some fantastic Tea Party leaders.
