A look into the Obama for America HQ in Chicago. A 14 minute pep talk to build steam for the next 5 months.
Obama to his staff and volunteers:
(12:23)Now everybody is counting on you, not just me. Um, and I know that is a heavy weight, but, but also, what a magnificent position to find yourselves in. Where the whole country is counting on you…. to… change it.. for the better. Those moments don’t come around very often and here you are.
Hat tip to Miss Laura for seeing the power of efficacy
Thousands of words could be — have been — written about the Obama campaign’s use of online networking, its incorporation of existing supporter groups into its state-by-state primary infrastructure, and of course, that realization that there were delegates to be had in the small states and caucus states, too.
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The importance of supporter activism in the 2008 Democratic primaries lies most of all in the efficiency and extent to which the Obama campaign made use of it. It is more a reason Obama won than a reason Clinton lost. But at the same time, it’s hard not to think back to all those Daily Kos comments I read in December, looking for a sense that Clinton supporters felt that her fate was in their hands, and not finding it, despite their evident passion.
Or as Kelly Nordstrom and I like to say, NO REGRETS.
