it Takes More Than an Obama-Style Campaign

[phantom power]

Each week I pick up messages at our local Democratic headquarters. For months, people have called to ask how they can get in touch with the Bernie Sanders campaign. (Even a disenchanted Republican now and then.) For months, I've directed them to the grassroots group organizing for Sanders here. Several hundred volunteers. On the ground it looks like 2008 all over again. They are phone banking out of our offices twice a week. Bernie Sanders is not a registered Democrat, but the memo from DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz says he's running on our ticket.

I also get (fewer) calls from people asking how they can get in touch with the local Hillary Clinton campaign. I tell them I wish I knew. They are nowhere to be seen. Unless you've got the money to attend a high-dollar fundraiser downstate. Clinton volunteers could use our space too. But so far there aren't any.

A party activist in the Raleigh area confirmed Monday that she is seeing the same in Wake County. "Huuuuuuuge grassroots activist presence, already well organized and phonebanking into Iowa, NH, and SC," she wrote. "Clinton's NC presence is all fundraising."

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Clinton is trying to run an Obama-style campaign. Since 2008, everybody wants to run an Obama-style campaign. North Carolina Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan ran a pretty solid campaign in 2014. An Obama-style campaign. Hagan lost. Problem was, Hagan wasn't an Obama-style candidate.

Neither is Hillary Clinton. As her campaign makes adjustments post-Iowa, they might want to wake up and smell the cold pizza.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/it-takes-more-than-obama-style-campaign.html

[cali]

1. We often hear from Hillary supporters that Bernie is no Obama. Quite true

But Hillary sure as shit isn't either.

[phantom power]

2. "be yourself -- everyone else is taken"

Maybe we should get back to those principles.