Barack Obama In Your Face

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Obama's re-election strategy: Get face to face
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One on one.

That’s the buzzword and guide-star of the campaign, which is organizing itself, volunteer by volunteer and neighborhood by neighborhood, in a subtle word-of-mouth effort that, Democrats hope, could surprise Republicans next year.

“This campaign is based on one-on-one relationships. And that’s something the president is very adamant about and it’s really based on his work in communities in Chicago,” Obama campaign’s political director, Katherine Archuleta said. “We’re reaching out. Not on a general basis, but on a one-to-one basis . . .”

Flush with cash, the campaign is a hard-nosed and sophisticated data-mining operation. It has an iPhone app, Are You In, that elicits users to share personal data about themselves and their neighbors' and friends' political views. Its Facebook page, which also helps the campaign track numbers about supporters and potential supporters, has more than 23 million "likes," which CNN reports is 10 times more than all the GOP candidates combined.

And the campaign uses a Facebooklike social networking program that integrates and tracks the nationwide campaign's efforts from volunteer block walks to door knocks to the nature of the one-on-one conversations with voters. The reports are shared on a daily basis with Archuleta and other upper-level campaign managers, who can target campaign themes, problems and successes down to the individual level.


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[mdmc]

1. welcome to the machine

GOTV

[KoKo]

2. Sounds good! Employing lots of people...one app at a time and lots 'o cash

to go up against Koch Brothers.

But....is it a good thing for America? We will see what happens after he is re-elected in 2012 whether it paid off and who it paid off for.

[greenman3610]

3. the threat from the lunatic right is so dire, that this is again

an all hands on deck situation.

[Scuba]

4. Too bad he hasn't been working to support truly progressive causes....

... the People would be lined up to vote for him already.

[Arctic Dave]

5. +1

But its all their fault for not being enthusiastic.


Slaps the face, "I SAID SMILE"!

[LWolf]

7. +1

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8. plenty of 'People' already are

. . . determined to vote for him.

Barack Obama is a progressive. His presidency has worked to advance and has had modest success in advancing some progressive initiatives. President Obama has also used his office to enact and advance many established progressive causes. He's also a politician and a pragmatist. I understand that's a contradiction. That's the reality, though.

I think I understand the argument of folks who can recite their own litany of complaints about this Democratic administrations shortcomings and wrongness -- I have quite a long list of my own.

However, our political system has NEVER afforded me with a nominee for president who was truly committed to advancing and maintaining progressive initiatives and concerns.

Moreover, in my lifetime, I've yet to see a legislature with a sufficient number of progressive legislators to do more than defend the entitlements and incremental measures that Democrats have managed to advance over the years.

I vote for the Democratic party and president in our general election, because that is where opportunity begins. The election of our Democratic legislators has never been a panacea, in and of itself, to the enactment of a progressive agenda.

There are still many diverse and disparate interests from around the nation competing in the same political arena for votes and representation. Those we elect are still challenged to build the necessary coalitions to advance their ideas into action or law. That's not a static process. It's an ongoing one -- a building one.

That's why it makes sense to me to support this President, even though he's certainly not the progressive or liberal of my dreams. Consider the alternative is not just a cliche or an abstraction. It's always been the rule in presidential politics.

[Scuba]

11. I hope you're right, but fear that you are not. n/t

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. It's me

and all the other throwaway's in our nation that should be in his face.

[msongs]

9. appeasing republicans is not an effective democratic party campaign strategy is it? nt

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10. as a campaign strategy

. . . no.

'Tis a challenge to operate government without some accommodation of republicans' wishes, at some level, tho.