Pro-Obama Group To Spend $10M On Voter Registration

[babylonsister]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12431.html

Pro-Obama group has $10M for election
By BEN SMITH | 8/11/08

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The group will do voter registration work in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia, Philips said. Philips, who came of political age on Jesse Jackson's campaign for president, said he thought the increases in minority voting this year could transform local political landscapes as Jackson did.

"It could work the same way, if not even bigger than the Jackson campaign," he said.

Philips said his group would spend about seven million dollars in the South, leaving about three million for advertising targeting Hispanic voters in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Texas.

Obama aides declined to comment on the group's efforts, and also played down the impact of outside groups.

Phillips, though, said he hoped he was building the beginnings of a progressive infrastructure that could stand outside, and to the left of, an Obama presidency.

"This is long term," he said.

"We think that the excitement about Barack is going to bring out people whose engagement can have a long term impact on the local policy issues within those states."

[blondeatlast]

1. Eyes on the prize! Wish they'd come to Arizona but they seem to be

spending their funds strategically. Maybe when McCrepit retires...

[mod mom]

2. Not only helping Obama but the entire Democratic Party for the future.

[AlinPA]

3. Good at all levels, but it seems to me that Mississippi will never vote for a Democrat for president