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Obama’s campaign can reshape communities

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Published Wednesday, January 23, 2008

In a column that ran last week (“For all Washington’s ills, what is change’s real roadblock? Gidoudavote, of course!” 1/15), Amanda Eckerson wrote of her frustration with the current Get Out the Vote style of campaign. We share her frustration.

We campaigned for Barack Obama in New Hampshire in the days before the primary and were struck by the amazing energy and sheer size of the volunteer turnout. This tremendous enthusiasm was entirely funneled by Get Out the Vote with unclear results — while one house visit and phone call might improve the resident’s opinion of Obama, the third...

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