February 14, 2005

Inauguration Protest Yields Results

Remember the Not One Damn Dime effort on Inauguration Day to protest, "with those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending?"

Well, here are the results:

A new Bentley College survey conducted by Dr. Christine Williams, Dr. Bruce Weinberg and Jesse Gordon of participants in a survey about the NotOneDamnDime protest on Inauguration Day January 20 has been released.   The 1276 respondents reported their total normal spending for that day would have been $59,729, or $46.81 on average; their reported actual spending total was $8,035.16, or $6.30 on average. The total amount withheld (normal - actual) was $51,693.84, or $40.51 on average. The total number to whom respondents passed along info about NotOneDamnDime was 27,170 or on average 21.3 people, and the  total number of folks they personally knew who participated was 45,899, or an average of 36 people.  63.5% found out about the NODD protest by e-mail and e-mail is the way 56.9% of them in turn told others about NODD, twice the percentage who told others in a face to face conversation.  Results illustrate the power of viral marketing and the potential in online grassroots political organizing.

Thank you Professor Christine B. Williams at Bentley College for passing on this information. And by the way, there's a part II to the boycott.

Posted by Buzz Webster at February 14, 2005 06:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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