NPR’s Ina Jaffe reports this morning on how the Obama campaign trains volunteers in grassroots organizing techniques. Particularly noteworthy is the story includes the power of story in the campaign.
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(Cross-posted at Off the Bus)
Many Democratic party loyalists fret that an ongoing battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will tear party unity and delay vital fundraising. But Republicans shouldn’t start cheering yet. Below are three hidden benefits of an extended intramural fight for Democratic Party at the national and at the local levels in [...]
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Watching the Obama campaign message, “Yes we can,” morph into a music video and then once again into a user-generated participatory project is to see the beginnings of Web Politics 2.0.
There won’t be a singular moment that captures the ascendancy of the Internet in the way that the Kennedy-Nixon [...]
If Barack Obama committed a mistake in how he rebutted Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of his rhetoric, it wasn’t because he “plagiarized” off his friend Deval Patrick, but that he missed a golden opportunity to sound the second note of his candidacy.
The Obama campaign’s communications team has been highly successful at branding Senator Obama as the [...]
(Cross-posted at Off the Bus)
Mainstream coverage of electoral campaigns often focus on candidate speeches, advertising, and other mass-outreach efforts, for a myriad reasons. Where in all of this do average citizens fit in? In fact, volunteers play some of the most important roles in campaigns. Below I’ll detail one such campaign, Obama for South Carolina. [...]
I have been a fan of Hillary Clinton for some time; as I mentioned earlier, I stayed registered in NY as a student for the 2000 election so I could cast my vote for her in the Senate race. In the past several months, I have also admired her evolution as an orator, rising quite [...]
Dan Payne’s analysis of the Presidential race in today’s Boston Globe illustrates why he was a bad fit for the Deval Patrick campaign, which he left soon before Deval blew the lid off the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primaries. Payne repeatedly cites, while also chastising himself for citing, poll numbers without any serious analysis of the [...]
There’s a lesson in yesterday’s Massachusetts results that, in fairness to Hillary supporters, might give Obama fans some pause. As I described, we never really expected to win Massachusetts, but I do feel that we fell a few points shy of where we could have been in the popular vote (even if we achieved exactly [...]
Strategy isn’t, of course, what draws me to the Barack Obama campaign, but the campaign strategy is finally becoming clear to me. Super Tuesday was, by design or accident, a huge anti-insurgency firewall. To field grassroots organizations that could overturn an incumbent (which, in many ways, is what Clinton is), would be beyond the reach [...]
We had known, when we arrived at Massachusetts headquarters last weekend, that the Obama campaign had pretty much given up on the Commonwealth; after South Carolina most of MA’s staff decamped to Connecticut, leaving behind a skeleton crew of seven (!). More on the strategic reasons behind this shift later.
Essentially, the local campaign’s task seems [...]
