The great American campaign ...

[opprimo]

While it's not exactly huge news that I spent six unpaid, volunteer hours at the Obama campaign office yesterday; the truth is that I'd much rather be doing something I love for free than something I loathe for an ungodly amount of money. Well, maybe that's not entirely true, but there is truth to it

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Since you asked...

[angie_o]

The percent that will commit depends on what sort of list you're calling from (a cold list, a list of people who checked a "volunteer box," etc). If you're calling a volunteer list, you should get something like:

40 dials/hour
20 contacts
5 commitments

I think you're trying to throw the no-show rate in there as well...which I guess I've never done, because confirm calls are a whole separate round of calls, and if you base you expectations on who will show up just on the math from the round of sign-up calls, 0 will show.

Confirm calls are again the 50% rule: Out of whomever you get a hold of (which should be a slightly higher rate than the one above), 50% will recommit, and out of those, 50% will show.

I've got all my Task Force flip charts at home with the math on them (this is all memory). I'll look later, and if it's way different, I'll let you know. :)