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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 10:59 PM Nov 2012

Obama Readies Ground Game

Obama Readies Ground Game
The Obama campaign is out with a memo detailing how it will execute its long planned ground game:

"This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get-out-the-vote (GOTV) staging locations in the battleground states that will decide this election, they began to execute the final phase of a ground game unlike any American politics has ever seen. These staging locations are even more localized versions of our field offices - set up in supporters' homes, businesses or any area that can serve as a central hub for a team's GOTV activities in the final days."

"From these hyper-local Obama hubs, volunteers have signed up for 698,799 shifts to get out the vote over the final four days of this campaign, a number that grows by the minute as organizers continue assigning supporters who have expressed an interest in volunteering. These volunteerled GOTV staging locations embody what this campaign has been all about since we started organizing for change in 2007. The Neighborhood Team Leaders who are running our get-outthe-vote operation have been working in these neighborhoods for months, if not years."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/03/obama_readies_ground_game.html

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Obama Readies Ground Game (Original Post) WI_DEM Nov 2012 OP
Had fun doing this in Madison, Wisconsin today came from Chicago. mucifer Nov 2012 #1
Better than polls andrewgr Nov 2012 #2
Not propaganda.... ProfessionalLeftist Nov 2012 #4
Phone bank captain here dhec44 Nov 2012 #3
 

andrewgr

(23 posts)
2. Better than polls
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 11:08 PM
Nov 2012

For some (probably irrational) reason, I actually find this more comforting than polls. I should probably be skeptical and assume it's just standard campaign propoganda, but somehow I suspect we're going to see campaigns redefined yet again on Tuesday (last election having seen the "early vote" revolution).

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
4. Not propaganda....
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 11:36 PM
Nov 2012

...to see the 'staging locations' in your area (they are people's homes, people's business offices, college campuses, various other locations), go here:

http://www.barackobama.com/gotv/#!/

Enter your zip code, sign up at a location near you and GO!

dhec44

(6 posts)
3. Phone bank captain here
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 11:12 PM
Nov 2012

I'm the phone bank captain for our staging location in a small, rural town in Iowa. We're working hard to GOTV. The Obama campaign ground game is amazing. I'm so excited to be part of it. LET'S DO THIS THING!

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