On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf.

[DerekJ]

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But it's more than that. The Vote For Change program will lay the foundation for Obama's general election get-out-the-vote efforts. Obama aides won't say much more, but I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/pay_to_attention_to_obamas_vot.php

[bluestateguy]

1. Count me in

I haven't done ground work for a presidential candidate since 1992.

[DerekJ]

2. Register here:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/vfchome

[NJmaverick]

3. That will be an impressive show of strength and added to that

will be Unions and organizations like MoveOn.org

[Better Today]

4. He is certainly inspiring voters to believe they actually count.

[livetohike]

8. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Better Today]

13. Thanks! It seemed time to join after Tuesday. Been browsing a while before that.

[DerekJ]

11. Welcome to DU.

:)

[zanne]

5. Obviously, I have not mastered Photobucket. Delete.

[anonymous171]

6. This is Obama's strength. McCain will have only a fraction of the ground-game.

[Beregond2]

7. God,

isn't it great to finally see Democrats getting their s--t together?

[BlooInBloo]

9. It's a wonderful infrastructure he's building....

It will reduce the power of the entrenched institutions, and thus aid in party realignment.

And it's top-down change - contrary to what most navel-gazing bloggers said was impossible.


EDIT: That's LEADERSHIP.

[GetTheRightVote]

10. I will be there volunteering all the way from this campaign to the next

[zanne]

14. Kudos, GetTheRightVote!

I volunteered in the Primaries and I hope to volunteer again during the summer and fall. I can't pass up having a small part to play in making history!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Will they tie into sites like the AFL-CIO?

They've come up with a fabulous online booklet outlining McCain's stands on issues. You can check it out here:

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain.cfm