Raleigh News and Observer: Hagan Starts Virtual Phonebank

Kay Hagan has started a Virtual Phone Bank.

The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has started an online effort to allow volunteers from anywhere in the United States to call North Carolinians about volunteering for the campaign.

The technique was key to the success of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, as described by a recent Time magazine article:

In state after state, the campaign turned over its voter lists — normally a closely guarded crown jewel — to volunteers, who used their own laptops and the unlimited night and weekend minutes of their cell-phone plans to contact every name and populate a political organization from the ground up.

Hagan’s college-aged daughter, Carrie, is spearheading the effort through the Carolina for Kay group on Facebook, which so far has 104 members, mostly students at UNC-Chapel Hill.

“It is very important for us to contact as many people as possible and we need people like you to help us do that!” she wrote in a message to the group today.

Update: Hagan spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan says the campaign’s County Captains are recruiting virtual phone bankers as well and have already made calls.

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