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Entries Tagged ‘grass roots’

Organizing for Obama: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Resolve

Jun.18, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election 2008

Four years ago I was sure there wasn’t another Democrat living in this city. It wasn’t an unreasonable thing to believe, given that our representative is a 5-term Republican who voted for the war, thinks we should wiretap whoever we want, and consistently votes for Bush policies with full confidence that he’ll be sent [...]

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Shifting from Top Down to Bottom Up Politics

Jun.01, 2008 in Election 2008

Al Giordano has an interesting observation on the Michigan/Florida solution and the RBC:
Michigan and Florida: Essentially, all that the DNC’s Rules & Bylaws committee did yesterday was ratify the consensus proposals from the two state Democratic Party organizations, and then ratify their own mission – with an eye on being able to set the 2012 [...]

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