Which campaign is best prepared/organized to continue on thru the GE?

[SaveAmerica]

Is anyone working on the ground with either campaign or gone to any meetings with any of the candidate's organizers? What sense to you have of their organization and how do you think it will continue on into the GE?

I'm asking because I helped at an Obama event recently and it was the first I'd seen of the groundwork and I was most impressed. This is a campaign that the Republican party does not want to come up against in the GE. If local Democratic parties can work with the foundation that Obama's campaign is laying, we would see a change in the Democratic party that would last a long time.

Has anyone here every worked on a campaign that went from the primary to the GE? How much of the primary groundwork is rolled over to the GE, how much more do they build upon it? I just hope the Democratic party stays strong for this marathon of an election, and that there is enough time to get our second wind before heading into the General Election.

[uponit7771]

1. Kicking, Obama has shown us he's most prepared on financial & organization fronts

[newmajority]

2. Hillary's campaign was specifically built around a February 5 coronation.

And they have never truly recovered from the fact that it didn't happen. All they're doing now is wasting time and money that could be used to elect some more REAL Democrats to Congress.

But then, the DLC wouldn't want that to happen either, would they?

[Asgaya Dihi]

3. Best organized seems to be Obama

If the caucus results and the way he turns double digit deficits a month before races into a close loss or win mean anything I'd think he's got the best organization at the grassroots level, no contest. She has name recognition and more ties with power to start with at least but as the Superdelegates shift that doesn't seem too solid for her anymore either, they are willing to move. He reacted fast and well to the wright controversy, in spite of a number of rather amusing accusations such as glass jaw nobody seems able to hit him with much yet.

I think he's got a real good chance. According to the polls the greater doubts about him against McCain come from his own party, Clinton supporters mostly I'd guess. In general population polls including the swing voters we're after they seem to like Obamas chances better. I don't see any reason that won't hold up through the general. If we're going to beat McCain, it's with him.

[redqueen]

4. Oooooh that is a tough one!

Hmmmmmm...

:think:

[DemBones DemBones]

5. I'm sure HRC's campaign is as ready as BHO's & she can actually win

in November. Obama wouldn't have a chance in the general election.

You guys want McCain in the Oval Office? That is what nominating Obama would lead to.

[AtomicKitten]

6. What was your first clue? Her monster negatives? The fact that she can't win the Dem nod?

Or perhaps the fact that she almost consistently polls worse against McCain?
Was it her money problems? Her poor management skills?

[Bigleaf]

7. Analogy: In order to win the Championship, you have to get to the Finals.

Getting to the Semi-Finals and losing does not a winner make.

[eridani]

13. She has almost no ground organization

She even refuses to use or contribute to the DNC voter tracking system, which has already helped quite a few down-ticket candidates in my state. She spends money on Mark Penn and other shitstain parasites, and Obama spends it on organizers.

[BklynChick]

8. from the outside looking in, Obama's looks stellar to me.

[damntexdem]

9. Best prepared? Obama's is the ONLY one that is prepared.

That's why he'll bury McCain in the GE.

[hfojvt]

10. uh, you know the DNC and every state party has their own organization

Don't you? My county has a group of precinct people who will get an office like we did in 2004 and 2006. We will promote all the Democratic candidates there (which is one reason I don't want Hillary on the ticket, she will damage all our other candidates just by being there). We will organize volunteers and have events to help all the candidates, and the state party has something like a dozen paid staff.

I am not sure I have ever seen a Presidential candidate who had a ground game. The fact that Obama seems to have one is likely to help Democrats in every contest.

[SaveAmerica]

11. Yeah, I've been volunteering locally since '04 and have felt that Dean's fiddy

state plan worked really well for us in '06. What I saw and heard the other day makes me believe that Obama's campaign has taken that same foundation and pumped it up several levels. I was practically drooling at the thought of combining their forces with ours (or even just riding their coattails).

[crankychatter]

12. we need more than ten weeks even with the best campaign

sooner than later this contest needs to STOP