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Obama Tries New Southern Strategy
via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama "is trying something many observers say has never been done" in South Carolina, according to the Wall Street Journal. "He is circumventing entrenched local leadership and building a political machine from scratch."
"His staff consists largely of community organizers -- many from out of state or with no political experience -- who are assembling an army of volunteers. It is a strategy often used by labor organizations and in neighborhood and town politics," and some "evidence suggests the strategy may be working."
Caveat: "The strategy has risks. The endorsement system of politics evolved precisely because it was locals, not outsiders, who knew where voters here lived and how to get them to the polls."
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