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Obama Tries to Repeat 2008 Grassroots Campaign

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Only a month into the presidential campaign and Barack Obama's volunteers are working very hard. With barely 18 months to go before the next presidential election call centers all over the nation are trying hard to beat the Republicans who seem lost in mobilizing a clear-cut candidate. This early start is what Obama hopes will be the upstart of the same type of grassroots effort that got him elected by voters in 2008.

According to the Obama campaign, it has committed to reaching out to every voter who supported him in 2008. This is a huge undertaking considering the scope of 50 states and the disillusionment of many voters by Obama's recent policy decisions. The Obama campaign will need to win back states that were won by him in 2008 but were taken over by Republican governors in the 2010 elections. A very hard road to climb.

In 2008, the American people who were looking for change, found inspiration with the Obama candidacy. However, the Obama record especially with independents may not seem as inspired today. With that said, the recent battles over labor unions and state budget cuts that have threatened collective-bargaining for public employees could help to energize Democratic and independent voters as the election approaches. What may have been lukewarm reception to Obama and his reelection bid, could be a more fired up grassroots campaign.

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The Cypress Gang

12 months ago: It's early. We know who the DNC pick will be. Mr. Trillions of Dollars Deficit.

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Altruist
Eugene, OR

12 months ago: The overreach by Tea Party Radicals have energized all Democrats and independents.

Those who voted for the Republicans thought they would provide jobs, not take away basic rights.

There is a serious case of buyers remorse, now that we see that the only thing the Republicans want to do is give the rich even more money while hurting the poor and middle class.

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BadCyborg
San Antonio, TX

12 months ago: Al, I really hope you are right. I hope the Progressives sweep both houses and a Lame Duck President Obama is free to pursue ensuring that his legacy is secure.

That way, when the revolution comes, I will still be young enough to be useful for a few years after our Republic and, indeed, western civilization falls.

One day, when the world has climbed out of the deep pit brought on by the thousand years of darkness resulting from the creation of the Caliphate, future historians and anthropologists will call the next few years "The Great Culling of Humankind". They will look back on the records of our hubris and folly and shake their heads. And they will mourn for the BILLIONS who perished during the first half of the 21st Century.

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Altruist
Eugene, OR

12 months ago: You guys already had your revolution, at the ballot boxes in 2010.

Now that people are actually seeing how radical the Tea Party is, and that they are more interested in taking away rights and freedom than in insuring them, or actually governing, there is a huge backlash against your "revolution".

If billions do perish it will be because of the greed of the fossil fuel industry and the ignorance of their puppets who allowed the destruction of the environment for the love of mamon.

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BadCyborg
San Antonio, TX

12 months ago: November last was an election, not a revolution. I am referring to an honest to goodness shooting war type revolution. The kind that has not occurred since the last quarter of the 18th century. I myself will not be an active participant. I am too old and in ill health to participate in infantry operations.

I will be at my family's freehold trying to stay alive. But if you will take off your rose colored progressive glasses and think for a moment, you will see at least some of the implications of a real, shooting war between government loyalists and rebels doing their duty per the Declaration of Independence. One of the first consequences of such an event would be the inevitable collapse of the continental transportation web. No trucker or railroad engineer is going to want to go anywhere with the chance of being killed so high. If the conflict lasts long enough the U.S. economy will tank likely taking Europe's and Asia's with it. That will also trigger the collapse of the planetary transportation web. The result will be death on a scale seldom imagined.

Thus my prediction of the "great culling". The only ray of hope for me is that people like you, Al, and the other leftists will not be able to believe that such a thing could happen (rather like the Jews in pre-WWII Germany) and will be utterly unprepared for it. Your entire philosophy will be "culled" - perhaps for good.

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