Obama Campaign Machine Revving Up To Elect Clinton

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The vaunted data-driven machine that twice got President Barack Obama elected is revving up to help elect Hillary Clinton, as Democrats look to recreate the tactical advantage they used against Republicans in 2008 and 2012.

With Obama's popularity rebounding, Democrats have been eagerly awaiting the president's return to campaigning, and he'll hold his debut event for her Tuesday in North Carolina. Yet campaign officials say just as critical to her success could be an Obama political operation that remains potent four years after his re-election, including deep troves of voter and donor information, and a corps of trained field staffers and volunteers that Clinton's campaign is now co-opting.

The crown jewel of Obama's machine, an email list of supporters that included 20 million addresses in 2012, is now fully available to Clinton. That list had been closely held within an Obama campaign committee that still exists to pay off old debt. Democratic groups and even Obama's Organizing for Action nonprofit had to rent the list for a hefty sum.

Now a copy of that list, which helped propel Obama to record-breaking fundraising, is controlled by the Democratic National Committee, which can send emails at will without going through Obama's campaign. That's according to individuals familiar with the list, who weren't authorized to discuss the arrangement and requested anonymity.

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[sheshe2]

1. KnR

[LuvLoogie]

2. K&R!

[AC_Mem]

3. They called me a couple weeks ago

I've worked on campaigns, trained on the software, however my mom had just passed so I wasn't ready.

I'm ready now. Call me.

Annette in orlando

[ailsagirl]

7. ...

Sorry to hear about your mother, AC_Mem

[REALforever]

4. This Was Inevitable and we know that Trump only has CNN call-ins and Rallies

All Trump can do now is run to Hillary's "left" with TPP. But most folks don't even know what that is!

[pnwmom]

5. Welcome to DU, REALforever!

[REALforever]

6. Thanx!..I started here earlier but got turned off by the Bernie vs Hillary wars.. Let's beat Trump!

[Upthevibe]

8. I stayed off of DU until the Primary was over. I only have a few posts that show because of

computer issues. I lost my original handle and the number of all of my posts. .....been here from the very beginning....wouldn't have made it through the Bush years without DU!

[JNelson6563]

9. Ok, it wasn't only the list.

Don't get me wrong, this is great!

I hope this isn't all she gets from that brilliant campaign! I was a soldier in the trenches full time for six years. In that time there was the Kerry campaign which, by all accounts was very conventional and remarkably unnoteworthy. Completely top down and heavily (too heavily) dependent on the party structure.

Then came the Obama campaign. They were happy to connect with party machinery but they were not dependent. They rolled into town, opened up their own office and ran their own campaign, working with local party organizations as a partner but completely autonomous. Brilliant.

Julie

[lillypaddle]

10. I get chills

picturing this massive democratic machine riding the fuck over these repug dumbshits. GO Prez! GO Hillary! Smash those MFers! Um, excuse me if I got carried away.

It's such a beautiful mental image though ...