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Secret to Obama's Success: A Great Ground Game

Mike1825 Wrote: Dec 09, 2012 11:58 AM
The Obama campaign offices in the major cities remained open after the 2008 election and began immediately to focus on the 2012 election. It is tough to beat an opponent who has that big a head start.
Alexander41 Wrote: Dec 09, 2012 4:28 PM
He used his four years and our money to continue campaigning for re-election. That is hard to overcome. Attending all security council meetings was secondary, judging by the number of meetings he missed.
geotay Wrote: Dec 09, 2012 12:17 PM
"The Obama campaign offices..." including ACORN which changed its name but kept the same staffs and locations. And doubled-down on the fraud and suppression.
President Obama won re-election in part because his crack campaign team understood 2012 voters and put together an impressive ground operation. Out of professional respect, Republicans should refrain from cracking jokes about the president's erstwhile profession, community organizing. That's what I took away from recordings of Harvard's Institute of Politics quadrennial presidential campaign autopsy, which were released Monday.

Team Obama conducted nightly surveys of 9,000 likely voters in 10 battleground states. Because of those surveys, campaign manager Jim Messina told the gathering, "We thought we knew exactly where the electorate was." The campaign's targeting was so tight that national field...

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