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NYT: Candidate's Ground Game / Campaign Offices in Early States
New York Times, October 12, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/us/politics/democratic-candidates-campaigns.html
Which 2020 Candidates Have the Ground Game Lead in Early Primary States
(snip) Ms. Warren and Mr. Buttigieg have broken away from the Democratic pack with the most field offices overall in the four early states, and they are making an expensive bet that organizational strength on the ground will catapult them to crucial top finishes in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Their ground games give them more workspaces for organizers and volunteers. More organizers lead to more in-person contact with potential supporters in every nook and cranny of a state.
(snip) Mr. Buttigieg, whose deep financial resources has helped him open more offices than anyone else in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, has been slow to add staff in South Carolina, where polling has shown him with very limited appeal to African America voters. His campaign has just two South Carolina field offices and announced the hiring of a state director just one month ago. In Nevada, Mr. Buttigieg has four offices in Las Vegas alone, along with a presence in far-flung Republican-heavy locales like Elko, Fallon and Pahrump.
(snip) The Warren campaign built the earliest presence across the state, opening its first eight field offices in June. When Mr. Buttigieg, on a July walking tour of downtown Waterloo, popped into a sneakers-and-skateboards shop, organizers from the Warren field office across the street came outside to greet him.
Ms. Warren’s army of paid Iowa organizers — the campaign puts the number at “more than 65,” though it is by all accounts far higher — spent the summer appearing almost anywhere Democrats gathered. Democratic Party leaders in even the state’s smallest counties reported Warren organizers, alone among the presidential campaigns, appearing at nearly every one of their monthly gatherings.
(snip) Mr. Buttigieg, whose deep financial resources has helped him open more offices than anyone else in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, has been slow to add staff in South Carolina, where polling has shown him with very limited appeal to African America voters. His campaign has just two South Carolina field offices and announced the hiring of a state director just one month ago. In Nevada, Mr. Buttigieg has four offices in Las Vegas alone, along with a presence in far-flung Republican-heavy locales like Elko, Fallon and Pahrump.
(snip) The Warren campaign built the earliest presence across the state, opening its first eight field offices in June. When Mr. Buttigieg, on a July walking tour of downtown Waterloo, popped into a sneakers-and-skateboards shop, organizers from the Warren field office across the street came outside to greet him.
Ms. Warren’s army of paid Iowa organizers — the campaign puts the number at “more than 65,” though it is by all accounts far higher — spent the summer appearing almost anywhere Democrats gathered. Democratic Party leaders in even the state’s smallest counties reported Warren organizers, alone among the presidential campaigns, appearing at nearly every one of their monthly gatherings.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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to see that Elizabeth is organizing in SC as well as she is.
IMO, she still needs more there. 
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Warren campaign is paying attention! 
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
