MoveOn.Org hosting TX house parties for Obama (phonebanking 400,000 voters)

[rainbow4321]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/030108dnpolstrategy.392ccd4.html

For Barack Obama, the challenge is to continue the remarkable tide that's swept up new voters, independents and some Republicans. He also needs to make inroads with Hispanics, chip away at Mrs. Clinton's edge with women and hold his lock on blacks in the state's big cities.

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Mr. Obama's under-appreciated strength is his organization. He opened 20 offices statewide and began Friday to step up get-out-the vote efforts with block walking, phone banks and TV commercials.

The Obama forces have help, too: Organized labor, most notably the Service Employees International Union, is contacting voters on his behalf. And the liberal activist group MoveOn.Org will host house parties for him Sunday in Dallas and elsewhere in which 400,000 Texans will be contacted by phone.

Mr. Obama started here from scratch but had 100,000 volunteers already working in Texas. Some estimate his number of volunteers has more than doubled since his staff arrived in the state.

[Cha]

1. Good ol' moveon.org..comin'

through to help us in Texas.

[rainbow4321]

2. "100,000 volunteers already working in Texas"

He was putting out phone calls long before HRC got down here...I've lived here 22 years and never, ever got a Democratic phonebank call. This time around I got one while the previous states were still having their primaries. You know, back when HRC was still taking a Texas win for granted...a month or so before her people even bothered to learn about the Texas primary system.

[Adelante]

3. That's an amazing number nt

[Cha]

7. Beautiful to be behind

such a capable network.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:kick:

[helderheid]

5. Kicked and rec'd - I'm hosting an Obama Yes We Can party in my home tomorrow in Utah

[adoraz]

6. great news (currently calls are at 700K, lets see if they pass 1,1 mill on sunday)