Obama Uses Cash Edge, Opens Offices in Indiana, North Carolina

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ahGKIrBVnEiM&refer=home

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is opening campaign offices in Indiana, North Carolina and Alaska, using his financial edge to challenge John McCain in states previously written off by Democrats.

Obama, an Illinois senator, also is concentrating much of his campaign-ad spending since clinching his party's nomination in June on states won by President George W. Bush in 2004, according to a study by the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Obama's push in previous Republican strongholds includes 14 offices in Indiana, 11 in North Carolina and four in Alaska, according to his campaign Web site. Only one of those states, North Carolina, has backed a Democratic presidential candidate in the past 40 years.

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The Obama campaign Web site listed 25 offices in Florida as of Aug. 8. Demonstrating that McCain intends to fight hard in the state that decided the 2000 presidential election, the Republican's campaign Web site listed 27 offices and promises nine ``coming soon.''

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Obama's cash advantage may make it hard for McCain in even the most reliably Republican states said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

[tekisui]

1. I love it.

Get the boots on the ground everywhere!

[nc4bo]

2. Kewl, there's an office in Fayetteville, N.C. - woohoo. nt