(crossposted to dKos)
Here's an interesting question for those of you playing along at home. What is Obama's "Local Event Score" in your area? How does it match up to McCain's?
A search of "events" for each campaign within 25 miles of my zip code: 28277
Obama: 16 events, including house parties ("Barack-tails"), canvassing events, concerts, art shows, voter registration drives and phone banking events
McCain: 2 events, both of which are "meetings" happening on John McCain's "first event day"
This is why national polls mean so little. The campaigns' air games are a pretty show, but this will be won with our ground game.
And on the ground game front, the differences are incredibly striking at the grassroots level. The talking heads of the media can spin many tales about whatever their talking point of the day is, but on the ground, a silent army is getting little coverage.
McCain has so little organized public local support within 25 miles of me that I sincerely wonder how he can reach voters. And contrast the series of events themselves:
- Of the 16 Obama events, 8 of them are outreach events - canvassing, voter registration drives and phone banks
- None of John McCain's two events are outreach events. They're simply events where a group of decided voters get together.
80 or so days before the election, this is when the groundswell of people should be reach out to the public. We're doing that for Obama, but I'm pleased to report no one seems to be doing that for McCain. I live in the red state of North Carolina, just over the state line from the very red state of South Carolina. I see events for both states when I type my zip code in and search for 25 miles.
Where are the McCain stickers? Where are the volumes of McCain supporters? They call themselves "McCain Nation" but their numbers seem pretty thin. We're not talking formal, paid-for-by-John-McCain events here. These grassroots events aren't restricted by where the campaign decides to spend their money.
What's Barack's "Local Event Score" against John McCain where you live?
Type in your zip code, type in 25 miles (so you can match the John McCain search radius, which is much more limited than Obama's) and report in.
And then here's my challenge: Once you've done that and reported in, go sign up for one of your local Obama events!Obama event search:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/search_simpleMcCain event search:
http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainNation/
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