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Cha

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7. This is going to be A-MAZING! Just like
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 05:43 PM
Jan 2013

OFA for the 2012 Election! "It's about more than just one election"! "We can't stop now"..

The new OFA could, however, have an impact on Obama’s agenda in another way. The central political problem faced by Democrats is this: How to make the midterm electorate look like the presidential one, rather than the older and whiter electorate of, say, 2010? A large, well-funded grassroots organization, devoted to persuasion and activism, could become the key tool to reactivating 2012 voters, and bringing them to the polls in 2014.

If the primary obstacle to Obama’s policies on guns, immigration, climate change, economic stimulus, taxes and other issues remains GOP control of the House, the organization could conceivably aid in the 2014 push to recapture the Lower Chamber. While that’s a long shot, an effective OFA could conceivably make it somewhat less of a long shot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/01/18/can-the-new-relaunched-ofa-help-dems-in-2014/

Thanks DV
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