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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Rounding up more Obama Voters.
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!
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.
so “WTF” is better than ‘HOPEYCHANGEY”?
LOL, these idiots better come up with a new crappy slogan.
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.
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.
i.e., The Thugocracy is alive and steamrolling everyone.
Dedicated to the Obama re-election campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5-Vw9Do0g&feature=relmfu
I think the new slogan may be “Viva La Revolution!”?/s?
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).
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.
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