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MichaelHello and welcome to American Cafe! My name is Jody!
Oh, this stuff?  Well, let's see, I have political posters .... what else do I have flyers, you know, information sheets... Wow, I really have a lot of work to do!
Well, I'm excited because the work is for a political grassroots campaign. See, I volunteered to hang posters and hand out flyers to people at subway stops.
It's the best way for everyday citizens to get involved and make a difference! But hey, some of the people I met a grassroots campaign meeting can explain that it much better than I. Let's hear from them. The first one is Rudy who organized the meeting I went to.
My name is Rudy. I've lived in DC for a little under a year. And grassroots campaigning to me is movement of people coming toward for a common cause, be it political or social, whatever, banding together, working together to come to a common goal and hopefully be victorious in its outcome. The hierarchy is loose so everybody's voice counts . And in the end hopefully everyone is happy with the outcome.  
Okay!  The hierarchy means the chain of command. And in a grassroots campaign the structure of the heirarchy is very loose.  That means there's really no specific leader or boss.   
Right. And in a grassroots campaign everybody comes together for, as Rudy said, a common goal and contributes what they can.     
Right, like a true democracy.   
Here's another definition of grassroots campaigning that I liked a lot from Michael.
If I had to define grassroots campaigning, I would think that it's people working with each other trying to really bring democracy to life, share ideas, get people involved behind their candidate, trying to change minds, and raise awareness about an issue or a politician.