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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 05:21 AM Jan 2012

Guess Which Candidate Was Most Organized In New Hampshire?


Guess Which Candidate Was Most Organized In New Hampshire?

MANCHESTER, NH — Which candidate has the most offices in New Hampshire? No, it’s not Mitt Romney. That would be President Obama, whose campaign has seven spread out across the state — more than the rest of the field combined. Romney has one central office in Manchester, for the record.

It’s not exactly the most competitive primary in the world, but Obama is on the ballot in New Hampshire today too on the Democratic side and his campaign has its own lineup of volunteer events and celebrations planned in the Granite State. I stopped by their Manchester office on Tuesday to find a small cadre of Democrats hitting the phones to remind voters to turn out to vote.

“While (the Republicans) are getting the attention, behind the scenes we’re building up our organization,” Obama spokesman Frank Benenati told TPM.

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Full article and Photos here: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/obama-campaign-is-running-in-new-hampshire-too.php?ref=fpnewsfeed


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stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
2. 1 out of 5 Dems voted against Obama when he ran basically unopposed, imagine how many would have
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 06:37 AM
Jan 2012

if there had been a Bernie Sanders, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Russ Feingold, etc, in the mix.

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
4. As an ardent Obama supporter, I've not denied...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 06:42 AM
Jan 2012

...that there have been mistakes and disappointments the last three years. But I also think there have been successes, and cannot claim with any reason that any other Democrat would have done better with this batch of Republicans. Losing the White House is unthinkable. We Americans must band together, my Swedish friend. I'd note of course that many of those running were fringe candidates.

Like it or not - no one else is running - Obama will not be "primaried" - he's the best we've got, and I would fathom he knows he's made mistakes and you can tell it from Bill Daley getting dumped over the weekend - the tune is going to change. Hopefully, Jay Carney is next, whoever hired him to be the face of the administration to the press is off their rocks. On edit: He's Daley's man - dude is not telegenic and dithers when making a point instead of just stating the administrations position he meanders to the point. It's not an effective communication strategy.

 

stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
6. "cannot claim with any reason that any other Democrat would have done better"
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:21 AM
Jan 2012

For half his term Democrats had control of Congress, yet...............

Under Obama: expansion of number of empiric wars and war budget (after winning the Noble Peace Prize), not one significant prosecution of a major player in the multi-trillion dollar bankster schemes, horrid massive, corporate further takeover of health care system (and concurrent failure of single-payer), steady expansion of police state (culminating but surely not ending with NDAA signing), profound lack of oversight and regulation of Wall Street (MF Global is just the tip of the iceberg), DEA and ATF caught in massive crimes (Gun Runner, drug shipping and money laundering) yet the corrupt Eric Holder remains, tepid or non-existent real rsults in crucial areas of LGBT rights, failure to close Gitmo, utter failure to vn attmpt to counter/explain a Federal Reserve that secretly gave out over 25 trillion dollars in secret give-aways, dollar swaps, low (read almost zero) interest loans to the global systemic private banking system, extra-judicial murdering of US citizens, massive expansion of civilin deaths via drone strikes, helping the undermining of Social Security/Medicare by support of payroll tax reductions whilst not lifting income cap on this funding mechanism, etc etc etc.


God (or whatever you choose to place here) help the USA.


The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.

- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope (1966)

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
7. You don't understand the American political system...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:32 AM
Jan 2012

Please send us some of your European Socialism.

 

stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
8. I have a bachelor degree in political science, w/ a year of that spent at CUNY-Queens, and an
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:32 AM
Jan 2012

MBA from Columbia in NYC. I lived in the USA for several years in NYC and Los Angeles. The country has changed so much since 1998/1999 that it takes my breath away.

As for socialist democratic proportional representation, I send you all I can, CATCH!

cheers

 

stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
9. btw, my Sr. thesis was on the growing ursurpation of political power by the Excutive branch of
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:48 AM
Jan 2012

the US governmnt, mostly at the expense of Congress within the historical Constitutional system of checks and balances. This democracy-robbing trend started to really take flight under the Nixon administration, and has expanded unchecked, albeit with different speeds, with each adminstration since, especially Clinton, W Bush, and now, sadly to say, Obama.

ellisonz

(27,709 posts)
10. Yeah, but see that's highfalutin political science...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jan 2012

...and not wisdom gained from lengthy engagement in the tribalism of American politics. We're not ready to put down our clubs yet on any side and so we shall try to bash each others brains in to settle nothing but the further endearment of hard feelings. It's the American Way - we're like Easter Islanders climbing a pinnacle for a bird egg. It just doesn't turn out that well for all parties involved.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
12. Still repeating that media tripe?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 03:17 PM
Jan 2012

I guess the fact that the President's campaign doesn't expect to raise or spend anything close to that doesn't need to actually bear on the discussion.

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
5. The Obama campaign does know how to campaign.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:08 AM
Jan 2012

No doubt they will capture a ton of votes in Nov just by being better at campaigning.

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