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Obama 2.0 vs Michael Duncan

Submitted by davidfarrar on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 13:28
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If the168 RNC members, who have the future of the Republican Party in their hands, want to actually see what the party will be very shortly up against, all they have to do is read Peter Wallsten's, Los Angles Times' article, entitled: "Retooling Obama's campaign machine for the long haul" and inwardly digest.

For extra reading on this subject, please go to: Transcript: The Post's Lois Romano Interviews David Plouffe/ Jan.10, 2009, The New Politics: Barack Obama, Party of One//John Heilemann Published Jan 11, 2009, and Michael Scherer/Jan. 15, 2009, courtesy of TechPresident.com.

The placing of Obama's grassroot army at the local, constituent level of wayward Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike has even caused concern among Democratic Party leaders. Jerry Meek, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party stated, "The party needs to be rooted not just around one individual, but it needs to have a grass-roots base that can survive the times and even endure past whoever may be in office."

What is clear, or should be clear, to all is that the Republican Party can no longer play by the same rules as it has before and hope to compete not only with the local Democratic Party but now Obama's grassroot army as well.

Our local Republican parties must start growing their own local grassroot online structures themselves if they hope to be able to even play in the same league as Obama in 2012.

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Was talking about this the other day with someone

Submitted by Progressive Tra... on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 21:11.

And we came to the conclusion that the biggest change that the Obama campaign brought to politics was to shift fund-raising away from going after the big donors.

Small donors matter now, in a big way.

I haven't thought through all the implications of that, but a few a fairly obvious at start. 

Large numbers of small donors matter.

Submitted by davidfarrar on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 21:45.

Personally, I can't wait to see how a Democratic Congressman is going to react when the Obama's team sends a hit squad into his constituent precincts when he is slow to support one of the President's policies. I think what Nancy, Harry and the Democratic Party are going to find out is that they too have become nothing more than a tolerated nuisance. In fact, Obama doesn't really actually have to deploy his local stormtroopers. All he has to do is threaten to do so, which is probably the true raison d' être of Obama 2.0.

 

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