So what was Obama doing that they mocked him so mercilessly for?
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Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed--job training, help with housing and so forth--from the local government. It was, dare I say it, the Lord's work--the sort of mission Jesus preached.
Pontius Pilate was a Governor. And Jesus was a Community Organizer.
The McCain campaign is doing its best to bring out the vote. They can't win without OH and PA. Community Organizers, get to OH and PA. .
McCain Pins Hopes on Getting Party Faithful to Polls in Ohio
Both Ms. Viars and Mr. Davis live in Republican counties just outside major Ohio cities, the exurbs where Sen. McCain must run up the score if he hopes to win the state on Tuesday. It was here that President George W. Bush pulled out a narrow victory in 2004, drawing thousands more voters to the polls than outside experts thought possible, and ultimately clinching the race.
One key to Mr. Bush's re-election was the Republican party's nationwide get-out-the vote effort in the final 72 hours before election day. Operatives and activists built on months of phone calls and door knocks to turn out an unprecedented number of supporters from the conservative base.
Heading into the crucial final weekend, Republicans say their operation is even stronger and running ahead of where they were four years ago at this time. They say their targeting is more efficient, their workers more experienced and their technology better.
The McCain campaign, using an operation funded by the Republican National Committee, has already made 19.6 million phone calls this year nationwide. That's more than 2004, says Mike DuHaime, Sen. McCain's political director. And 2004, he says, "was the gold standard for turnout."
So there is the challenge. Their operatives are paid by the RNC. They have the experience of 2000 and 2004. The small-town Mayors outside Cincinnatti and in Western PA will help them.Bible Spice might get some guys see stars, but are they aroused enough to get off the couch to knock on doors?
Can our community organizers beat them? It is all in your hands now.
Eight years of misrule. A near collapse of the economy. Two wars. Katrina. Thousands killed. And it has all come down to community organizing. We are not without resources.
Sen. Obama's Ohio operation, with 89 field offices, including many in Republican parts of the state, is also making a big push in the final days. The campaign says it made 691,858 phone calls last week. On Saturday, it staged a run-through of its election-day operations. Volunteers are assigned to be part of either a red team, responsible for collecting data at the polls about who has not yet voted; a blue team, responsible for knocking on the doors of voters who haven't voted yet; or a white team, which provides logistical support.
David Axelrod, Sen. Obama's chief strategist, says of the McCain operation, "
We can't control what they do, but we can control what we do. We're going to get our vote out.
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Amen to that.
Added: Dallas Morning News
h/t Catte Nappe
Come Wednesday, the John McCain campaign may regret all those wisecracks about community organizers. Approaches central to community organizing – building grassroots support, harnessing volunteer labor, directing coalitions toward one goal – are paying off big time for Barack Obama. Just look at the thousands of well-organized and trained out-of-state volunteers pouring into battleground states all over the country in the final days of this campaign.
They are calling voters, knocking on doors and training others about how the political process works. Mr. Obama's concept of "hope" – knocked by so many as nebulous – has raised a groundswell of support, and he's got community organizing to thank.
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