Yesterday's Elections : The Obama campaign is holding up last night's victories in a number of state and local elections as an illustration of the grassroots muscle in position to held the president in 2012. Vote Shows Organizing Muscle

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Barack Obama camp: 2011 vote shows organizing muscle
By ALEXANDER BURNS
November 9, 2011


Barack Obama camp: 2011 vote shows organizing muscle


Some excerpts :

In a "Year Out" memo this morning, field director Jeremy Bird makes the case that Democratic organizing efforts are already paying off:

By now most of you have seen some of the results from yesterday’s elections. Voters in Ohio overwhelming rejected Governor John Kasich’s anti-worker bill, standing strong against a Republican agenda that seeks to put a greater economic burden on the shoulders of hard working middle-class families.

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx cruised to re-election with more than 67% of the vote, demonstrating strong Democratic support in a North Carolina city where voter turnout and support will be critical for President Obama in 2012. ...

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As many of you know, this past Sunday marked one year until the 2012 election. As part of this milestone, supporters of Barack Obama came together across the country and organized 2,120 local grassroots events, ranging from voter registration drives in Nevada, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona and Missouri; to voter education drives in places like Wisconsin and Colorado aimed at protecting voting rights; to get-out-the-vote drives in Ohio, Virginia, Maine, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Indiana; to direct voter contact events in New Hampshire, Michigan, and Washington. ...

The goal of this Year Out organizing drive was to focus on state and local organizing priorities while reinforcing our core campaign organizing goals: building our neighborhood teams; bringing new voters into the political process; reaching out directly to core constituencies; building the most expansive GOTV operation ever; and protecting voters rights.

By all these measures, this past week has been a huge success. ...

Colorado had 537 volunteers participate in its Day of Action on Saturday - with 58 staging locations run by volunteer leaders. In addition to thousands of one-on-one conversations on the phones and at the doors, Colorado volunteers scheduled 118 one-on-one meetings, where they will sit down face-to-face with Obama supporters and independents in the state.

In the past few days, we also opened campaign offices in Portsmouth (NH), Minneapolis (MN), Anne Arbor (MI), Henderson (NV), Fort Collins (CO), and St. Louis (MO). We just finished opening six additional offices in Wisconsin – Madison, Green Bay, Waukesha, Kenosha, and two in Milwaukee – after opening a host of local offices in Iowa over the past few weeks. The local offices will serve as campaign headquarters for our local neighborhood teams – meeting places to strategize, socialize and reach out to voters in their communities. We are opening an average of three offices per week in the past month.

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