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Obama's 2012 reelection team gets moving
WaPo ^ | March 5, 2011 | Dan Balz

Posted on 03/05/2011 1:03:35 PM PST by ColdOne

The next piece to fall into place will be the campaign operation. The Chicago-based reelection team will be under the direction of campaign manager Jim Messina, who recently stepped down as White House deputy chief of staff. David Axelrod, who has returned to Chicago after two years as senior adviser to the president, will again play the central role he did four years ago.

In due course, the Obama campaign operation will be fully staffed and humming. At this point, it has studied the reelection campaigns of previous presidents. The campaign advisers understand their challenges and have ideas about how to deal with them.

Obama's team, anticipating a closely fought general election, is focused on the key components of campaign machinery: money, organization and strategy. (The message was laid out in the president's State of the Union address - win the future - and will evolve with events).

Start with money. Obama raised about $750 million in his 2008 campaign, an astounding amount. There has been talk, still speculative, that he might be the first $1 billion candidate in 2012.

While grass-roots money will continue to be significant, one of the Obama team's first priorities is to build up its stable of major donors and fundraisers. Messina is already at work on this task. A sign of the importance attached to major donors is the designation of Julianna Smoot, the 2008 finance director who served briefly as White House social secretary, as one of two deputy campaign managers for the reelection.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 6coffinstumpspeech; bho2012; davidaxelrod; democrats; elections; jimmessina; obama; stumpspeech6coffins; tucson; tucsonmemorial
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1 posted on 03/05/2011 1:03:36 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Rounding up more Obama Voters.

2 posted on 03/05/2011 1:05:24 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1
Anyone that would vote this idiot is delusional..
Many have been SLAPPED awake..
3 posted on 03/05/2011 1:06:48 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: ColdOne
Obama's 2012 reelection Destruction of America team gets moving
4 posted on 03/05/2011 1:07:07 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: ColdOne

We must do everything that we can to make sure Stroker’s re-election campaign goes *SPLAT!!*.

Get him and his pet Wookie OUT of OUR White House!


5 posted on 03/05/2011 1:11:31 PM PST by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: ColdOne

I’m just curious to see what they pull when at least half a dozen states pass their ‘proof of eligibility’ laws and O’dumbo has to produce actual legal documentation to even get on the ballots.

I can imagine a lot of things being done, none of them pleasant or conducive to the continued existence of our constitutional republic, but it WILL be interesting to watch.


6 posted on 03/05/2011 1:13:03 PM PST by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: ColdOne

so “WTF” is better than ‘HOPEYCHANGEY”?

LOL, these idiots better come up with a new crappy slogan.


7 posted on 03/05/2011 1:14:52 PM PST by max americana
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To: ColdOne

Excuse me, what the heck do the dingbats at WaPo think that Obama’s been doing since January ‘09? Everything he does is about building and keeping personal power; nothing is about building and keeping America’s power.


8 posted on 03/05/2011 1:15:13 PM PST by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: ColdOne

Dan Likmi Balz sounds like a kid checking out his team in spring training. I’m sure Dan is ready to be a roadie and “submit” himself to the Won.


9 posted on 03/05/2011 1:17:54 PM PST by johncocktoasten (Practicing asymetrical thread warfare against anti-Palin Trolls)
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To: ColdOne
Obozo does not pass the birth right smell test.
10 posted on 03/05/2011 1:18:13 PM PST by drypowder
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To: ColdOne

i.e., The Thugocracy is alive and steamrolling everyone.


11 posted on 03/05/2011 1:23:18 PM PST by rod1
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To: ColdOne; bitt; Bitsy; onyx; nutmeg; SkyPilot; ElkGroveDan; FlingWingFlyer; Yehuda; ...

Dedicated to the Obama re-election campaign:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5-Vw9Do0g&feature=relmfu


12 posted on 03/05/2011 1:23:54 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ColdOne


13 posted on 03/05/2011 1:24:09 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: max americana

I think the new slogan may be “Viva La Revolution!”?/s?


14 posted on 03/05/2011 1:24:37 PM PST by ColdOne (AZamericonnie took my tagline & won't give it back!":))
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To: sthguard

Folks,

We are building a strong network in one of the liberal counties of North Carolina. Orange county is one of the most liberal counties in the state. We are going to reduce the margin of obama in this county and make sure that he looses the state of North Carolina. So, if you can spend couple of hours in your week end, try to drop into your county offices of the republican party in your state and try to influence the decisions. Before we try to influence the folks in our neighborhood, we need to make sure that our Kids & grandkids are brainwashed to get away from these obama mania(which used to be there).


15 posted on 03/05/2011 1:27:11 PM PST by Ranjit
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To: Pollster1
Obama’s 2012 reelection team gets moving


16 posted on 03/05/2011 1:33:55 PM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Jim 0216
Doubt they want to use this image on their soicitation letters.


17 posted on 03/05/2011 1:34:41 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ColdOne

I hope they are preparing his speech saying he will not run. If I were him I would take that opportunity as he could be facing real jail time.


18 posted on 03/05/2011 1:40:07 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: ColdOne
Let's hope they run on his record.


19 posted on 03/05/2011 1:40:48 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Vaquero; All
"Obama’s 2012 reelection team gets moving"


20 posted on 03/05/2011 1:42:34 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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