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How Obama is seizing control of the Democratic party
washingtonindependent.com — Note to Rahm Emanuel: "It's an unprecedented seizure of control that has built him, over the course of a year, the most powerful field organization and the largest financial network in American politics, leaving many existing structures -- traditional party organizations in many states, the Clintons' long-nurtured national network -- in the dust."
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- Krisgi, on 05/16/2008, -1/+4I read an article in Real Clear Politics that stated that Clinton could actually force herself upon Obama as VP at the Convention. That is how powerful some people think that the Clinton Machine still is. They are dead wrong.
Obama is the bread winner now for the Democrats. His donation structure is a gold mine for any Democratic aspirants to government office because the majority of the donations made by Obama´s supporters fell well below the $200 maximum beyond which it is obligatory for the campaign to report the identity of the contributor.
Only Obama has this information, and can give it to whomever he wants.
Democrats who wish to obtain this information in order to get in touch with potential donors to their own campaigns in the future will have to go through Obama.
Essentially, the Obama camp has revolutionized everything in these elections and made a powerful network of supporters and $ that far surpasses that of any other candidate.
People always move closest to the Sun that warms the most. It´s Obama who´s shining now. Big time. - BurningGiraffe, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3I agree. Obama has taken Howard Dean's strategy and built on it. He has also made the "Far Left" (something that the DLC and the Clintons have tried to run from) popular and powerful. This puts more pressure on the Republicans to come to the center, creating chaos in conservative circles. If the GOP goes to the far right, they'll lose the independents. Obama's strategy has one problem and that is an inability to incorporate the Hispanic vote into the fold. In eight years, Hispanics will be breadth of the swing vote in this country. We'll see how Obama does once he's in the oval office. If he can win a large majority of Hispanics to the DNC, the GOP and the DLC will be out of work.
- bitfreak, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1...and that's why I am voting for him. He changed the rules, invented a better mousetrap, and refused to play the old way. That's working smarter, and reason for hope. He didn't just talk the game, he won the game, and not by walking the same tired path.
- Krisgi, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1I think that if Richardson were VP candidate we could easily get the latino vote into our ranks. We need to offer these people more than what they are getting. This is the time of change for everyone. The Hispanic community, each sector with its own causes and identity, has fully contributed to this country in a way that is so positive that they deserve to be taken into account and remembered in these elections and all the ones to come. It is their time, too. Of course. Theirs, yours, mine, ours.
¡Éste es el momento! Arriba los Estados Unidos. Arriba el mundo. Arriba Obama. Arriba el Pueblo. Llega, por fin, esta anhelada Revolución. Ya era hora. Hagamoslo ya. ¡SÍ PODEMOS! - PaulCurrier, on 05/17/2008, -0/+0I support Obama's change of the old guard. After the term of Jimmy Carter, the Clinton's moved the Democratic Party into the hands of big money and Global Corporations and disregarded the interests of the American People.
The Bushes and Clintons share the same interests: NAFTA, WTO, loss of the soverignty of the USA.
Obama has built a Peoples financed machine, to retake first the Democratic Party, and secondly Washington DC.
Wonderful!!!
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