From: burger@cscns.com (Keith Hamburger)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.marrou
Subject: Why????
Date: 5 Nov 92 03:32:53 GMT
Organization: Community_News_Service


After the suggestions that have been made to determine what sells to non-liber-
tarians, and my (in my opinion) dismal showing in a three way congressional 
race, I've decided it's time to work on finding why people aren't buying the
libertarian message.  Is it because the message is not getting out?  Is it
because it's not presented well?  Is it because people don't really like such
ideas and prefer large government?

In order to do this it will be necessary to conduct extensive surveys of the
American people.  I am going to start working on this.  I am going to try to
develop a reasonable survey, obtain volunteers and survey 250,000 people 
about libertarian ideas and presentations.  If I could get a grant of $20,000
to $50,000 I would quit my current job and work full time on this project.
Otherwise I will have to do the best I can with as inexpensive a project as
I can in my spare time.

Some things I could use....

 - Suggestions of where I could get grants for such a project.

 - An organization to which money can be donated to and to which I can 
   receive funds tax free and possibly make it easier for me to collect
   a salary if this can be done full time with as little tax problems as
   possible.
 
 - QUESTIONS! QUESTIONS! QUESTIONS!
 
Some suggestions for questions are such as...
 
Which of the following ideas do you relate most with which political philosop-
hies? (conservative, liberal, socialist, libertarian) (etc.)
 
Which individuals do you relate to libertarian philosophy? (followed by a list 
of individuals of various political ilk)  (please send individuals names that
the general public would likely recognize)
 
Where do you get the majority of your political information?
 
Did you vote in the last election?
 
Are you registered to vote?  Party affiliation?
 
Which of the following was the Libertarian presidential candiate in...?
 
etc.
 
 - Any suggestions you could make to making the survey as unbiased and accurate
   as possible.  Without BIG BUCKS (more than the amount above) it will not be 
   possible to hire a professional firm but if anyone has any contacts with 
   academia that may be a big help.
 
- volunteers to survey a few thousand people around the country when the survey
  form is completed.
 
- If you are behind this project I could use LOTS of money.
 
If I can manage to have enough funds to work on this full time that should lead
to me being able to be prepared to spend the year following the survey to work
on a run for Governor of Colorado the way it needs to be done.  Full time and 
with a specific goal of at least 10% of the vote.  A vote count of over 5% for 
governor in Colorado will qualify the Libertarians as a minor party with no
need to petition for ballot access (and as far as I can tell once that is

Please email responses as I may miss posts to the newsgroup due to time
constraints.
 
I think this is a very important projcect that needs some serious attention.
Until we know what we're failing to get across, all the evaluations of our
outreach materials won't count for much.  I need your support.
 
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