What Obama’s ‘50-state strategy’ will look like

[babylonsister]

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16262.html

What Obama’s ‘50-state strategy’ will look like
Posted July 20th, 2008 at 12:30 pm



Back when Rudy Giuliani was a presidential candidate, he used to knock his Senate rivals, in both parties, for never having “run” anything. People like John McCain and Barack Obama, Giuliani said, had been lawmakers, not executives.

Now, as it turns out, the public didn’t much care, and voters in both parties for the first time in U.S. history nominated sitting senators to face off in the general election.

But in some ways, Giuliani’s criticism underestimated something: Obama is effectively the CEO of a massive national enterprise, with a huge budget and enormous staff.

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“The climate has made millions of Americans who haven’t been involved in a political campaign ever in their lifetimes very active,” Hildebrand said. “We estimate that 70 percent of our grass-roots volunteers haven’t worked in a campaign before…. We’re somewhere just shy of 2 million volunteers, and we think we can potentially triple that on Election Day.”

There’s never been anything like this. Time will tell if translates into a victory, but Obama has clearly put together an unprecedented operation.

Veteran Democratic operative John Sasso, who backed Hillary Clinton’s campaign, explained the benefits of Obama’s model: “People tend to believe information delivered by people they know and who live in their neighborhood more than an ad they see on television or what some third party from out of their state is telling them. It can really change the electoral map.”

Stay tuned.

[Cha]

1. 6 million volunteers on Election DAy..

and we'll need every last one of them! :bounce: :kick: :party:

They can ignore Obama's "running something" at their own peril.

[On the Road]

2. I Prefer Executive Experience, Too,

but the test is performance. Obama is showing himself to be a very capable executive decision maker. I have no concerns with his ability to handle the job at all.

[seasat]

3. While McCain tries to sprint while Obama is running a marathon

That's the feeling I get from this campaign. The Repub strategy seems to be based on getting quick results. Obama's strategy seems to be building a lead then pulling away. While the McCain campaign comes close at times, they run out of wind and fall back.

McCain seems to be blowing his funds on attack ads. Obama is not trying the quick kill negative ads like McCain but seems to be trying to build a couple of narratives about McCain. It seems to me that their media strategy is to (obviously) tie McCain to Bush but also to question McCain's ability in a subtle manner by referring to him as "confused" or out of touch.

Being a pretty partisan Democrat, I'd like to see more ads that use McCain's gaffes and flip flops. The campaign may be waiting until closer to the election when more people are paying attention to bring those out. They may also feel that they don't need them since they alienate some supporters of the candidate being attacked and Obama has confidence in a longer term strategy.

One thing that is clear is that Obama is spending more on the ground game while McCain is blowing his wad on advertising. When October rolls around, McCain's campaign will be broke and Obama will have legions of people getting out the vote for him. If Obama manages our country like he's running his campaign, he can accomplish a lot. McCain couldn't even manage a curb store the way he's organized his campaign.