<p>How do you get people to do it? Besides election day parties and fun events, when it comes down to the nitty gritty that the parties want - having volunteers go door to door, phonebank, drop flyers, and such, they always notice a major prob. getting any volunteers to do it. The local party people (and I live in a big democratic party city, 70% (accurate number) are democrats) even say during election time they can barely get anyone out to volunteer on these 'boring' things.</p>
<p>How do you get high school students to do the same? There's no community service hours gotten, etc., only the gratitude of the politician which most high school'ers don't recognize how valuable it is. So how do you do it? Anyone else with experience in Young Democrats or Teenage Republicans clubs have advice?</p>
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<p>Once the election is over, what events do you guys plan to host? We are planning to host some debates and bring in some speakers, but otherwise post election activities seem sortof low.</p>
<p>3: How do you recruit new members? </p>
<p>Most of our members now are seniors. Big problem. How do you recruit freshman and sophmores and juniors in mass droves? So far free soda and food doesn't work.</p>
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<li>As treasurer of a newly formed Young Democrats at my school, it took a while for people to really get involved. For fun events, we just had a debate-watch party at a member's house in which we had pizza. We charged people five dollars and donated the earnings to the Obama campaign.
As for phone banks, we give service hours. Its the only real way to get people to go that I can think of....</li>
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<p>My friend and I organized a political awareness concert with all the popular bands in the school playing in it, which obviously attracted crazy amounts of people</p>
<p>and upon entrance people would donate anywhere from $5-$10 to the campaign of the candidate they prefer. Obama won overwhelmingly lol</p>
<p>Republicans and Democrats both are failed political ideologies. Libertarian representing it up! Though I have to go with Obama because Barr is a facade.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention this. We just created a Young Democrats Club and are most likely going to combine it with a Republican one so we can have debate and such. When we go to do volunteering, we try to make the experience fun, by maybe going some place afterwards, going out to a cool place for lunch, stuff like that. We were campaigning in New Hampshire since it's our closest toss-up state (ish).</p>
<p>My friend and I just started a YR at my school, and so far, we've mainly just helped get students registered to vote and hosted a mock election. Oh yeah, we're holding an election day party, but I'm not sure what we are going to do afterwords.</p>
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Funny you should mention this. We just created a Young Democrats Club and are most likely going to combine it with a Republican one so we can have debate and such. When we go to do volunteering, we try to make the experience fun, by maybe going some place afterwards, going out to a cool place for lunch, stuff like that. We were campaigning in New Hampshire since it's our closest toss-up state (ish).
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<p>You'd probably get better turnout if you were to not have two actual different clubs and turn it more into a "Political Discussion" forum so people that don't feel an attachment to either party would feel more welcome to attend.</p>
<p>That is actually what we are doing. We just decided this this past week since both clubs just started this year, and we found it more productive to put the two together.</p>
<p>The school recently approved giving community service hours for our democrat volunteering events. :D People still seem to be inclined to all go to our fun activities but more hesitant to go to those service activities.</p>
<p>what is funny is that i am the prez of my young repubs, but voted for barr and then a dem senator and rep. tends to be for me that i am a capitalist, nothing more.
but to gain attendence, hold weekly meetings and try to invite politicans to give speeches, thats what we did. however, we are worried since i and the co prez have been so since sophomore year and we are worried who will continue on the party</p>