2010 Plan

What we are doing

Operation Red November is a grassroots movement by College Republicans nationwide to recruit and mobilize college students to take back our future by voting and volunteering for Republican candidates in the 2010 mid-term election. Currently, 23 highly trained College Republican field Operatives are working hard alongside our 200,000 members on 1,5000 campuses across country to make this a Red November! Check out www.OperationRedNovember.com for stories, tweets and videos from the campaign trail. To get involved sign up for our emails at www.crnc.org/signup and find the College Republican chapter nearest you at www.crnc.org/findyourchapter.

Don't Put It On Our Tab is an issue advocacy campaign to tell politicians in Washington D.C. to stop putting THEIR spending on OUR tab! Sign the petition and watch the latest video today at www.crnc.org/petition.

How we are doing it

For College Republicans, the keys to success are: Recruiting, Training and Mobilizing.

Recruit

We have deployed College Republican field reps lead the recruitment of new Republican students, targeted voter registration drives, campus canvassing, and organizing College Republican meetings on each campus. In 2010, we will deploy 23 field representatives to do just that, and their presence in targeted areas will be crucial for victory. In addition, we have hired two regional field directors to supplement local volunteer and field representative activities during key points during the election cycle.

Train

As the nation’s largest grassroots political organization, training our members is vital to our continued success. Training programs cover every subject from youth activism to campus projects to fundraising to recruitment. Our field representatives have gone through an extensive training to fully populate our goals, establish state-specific plans for the fall, and elevate the skill level of our statewide leadership teams. Currently in the field, they are using this training everyday as they recruit and mobilize college students to vote and volunteer for Republican candidates this fall.

Mobilize

We have begun to deploy thousands of College Republican volunteers from areas with fewer contested races to swing regions around the country. They will make a significant impact on the margins in closely contested congressional and gubernatorial races providing hundreds of thousands of man-hours making phone calls, walking neighborhoods, and performing the general ground work of campaigns. College Republican field representatives and field directors will coordinating weekly volunteer events in the fall targeted around the field program. These volunteer efforts will weekly nationwide pushes to get out the vote for Republican candidates. Although these events are critically important, the pinnacle of the field program is the final 96 hours before the election. During this time, field representatives will mobilize thousands of volunteers to get out the vote in the remaining days before the election to help ensure Republican victory.

Web Activism

We have engaged in an aggressive and finely tuned effort to reach out to youth voters online and engage them in messages tailored to the concerns of the Millennial generation. Voter registration forms, issue education, and links to center-right and allied coalitions are just a click away via www.CollegeRepublicans.org.

The Time is Now

The ground has never been more fertile to win the generational allegiance of America's youth. Discouraged and upset from believing hollow Democratic campaign promises, students today are looking for the power of ideas to define their political attitudes.

Through "Don't Put It On Our Tab" and "Operation Red November," the College Republican National Committee is driving and defining the debate for young people, and providing them with a major organized grassroots effort to elect responsible leaders who are advocating for fiscally responsible "change."