WaPo - Obama Relying On Groundgame - The Best Antidote To Right Wing MSM

[Median Democrat]

Right now, the MSM is doing its best to turn this election into a close race by repetitiously broadcasting McCain/Palin's most vicious smears, as well as publishing stories about Obama's race, as if they just discovered that Obama is African American. In other words, the MSM is trying to help McCain/Palin turn the page on the current economic crisis. However, thankfully due to the effort of many on this board, Obama has a great chance on November 4th, because of all the folks who are making a personal investment in this election. The LA Times and NY Times also have similar articles today describing the grass roots face-to-face nature of Obama's campaign, and how it is being driven by thousands of volunteers. Thus, Obama is not entirely at the mercy of the whims of the corporate media.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102119.html?hpid=topnews

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In 2004, Democrats watched as any chance of defeating President Bush slipped away in a wave of Republican turnout that exceeded even the goal-beating numbers that their own side had produced.

Four years later, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign intends to avoid a repeat by building an organization modeled in part on what Karl Rove used to engineer Bush's victory: a heavy reliance on local volunteers to pitch to their own neighbors, micro-targeting techniques to identify persuadable independents and Republicans using consumer data, and a focus on exurban and rural areas.

But in scale and ambition, the Obama organization goes beyond even what Rove built. The campaign has used its record-breaking fundraising to open more than 700 offices in more than a dozen battleground states, pay several thousand organizers and manage tens of thousands more volunteers.

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