"How Obama Did It" - Fantastic article in Time Magazine (link)

[scheming daemons]

Read this article, and you will understand how a leader like this comes around only once or twice in a lifetime:

Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign's finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker's team had raised money faster than any other campaign ever had. Its candidate was drawing mega-crowds wherever he went. Yet he was still running at least 20 points behind Hillary Clinton in polls. His above-the-fray brand of politics just wasn't getting the job done, and some of his top moneymen were urging him to rethink his strategy, shake up his staff, go negative. You'd better get here, Pritzker told Obama. And fast.

Obama made an unscheduled appearance that Sunday night and called for a show of hands from his finance committee. "Can I see how many people in this room I told that this was going to be easy?" he asked. "If anybody signed up thinking it was going to be easy, then I didn't make myself clear." A win in Iowa, Obama promised, would give him the momentum he needed to win across the map — but his backers wouldn't see much evidence of progress before then. "We're up against the most formidable team in 25 years," he said. "But we've got a plan, and we've got to have faith in it."

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More at:


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811857-1,00.html

[underpants]

1. Marking for later read

:hi:

[Tatiana]

2. Thank you. Bookmarking and recommending. n/t

[loyalsister]

3. "It's the difference between hunting and farming,"

"You plant a seed, and you get much more."

Beyond that!
He's taking what Dean started to the moon......

It's the right strategy with a better candidate. I am so happy to see the two combined! I supported both candidates because of the bottom up strategy. I am going to love this GE season.

[goclark]

4. Excellent read K and R

Sparkling example of how "Experience" as a Teacher and Community Organizer worked for him.

I'm glad to learn now some of the ways that he talked with his staff.

They were are/magnificent.


He had the mind to see the vision and the strenght of character to stay on message for positive change.

[Bensthename]

5. Thanks, saving for later. That was a good bit there...

[Imagevision]

6. Anxious to see what TIME says about Obama landsliding McBush in November....

[Robeson]

7. Tha't a good read, I only wish it was longer....

...one could do a thesis on each key phase in his campaign, outlined in that article.

[Bigleaf]

8. I look forward to buying the book that details this campaign at some point in the future.

[charlie]

9. Howard Wolfson - $266,000 a month

Robert Gibbs - $144,000 for all of 2007.

Obama's communications director costs $3 million a year less than Hillary's. $3 million.

[liberalla]

10. kick

great article!

[scheming daemons]

11. Kick for the morning crowd