Broder: Obama's Well-Oiled Machine

[dkf]

But the Obama folks are not leaving it to chance. Plouffe said that "turnout is the big variable," and the campaign is devoting an unusually large budget to register scads of new voters and bring them to the polls. "That's how we win the Floridas and Ohios," he said, mentioning two states that went narrowly for George W. Bush. "And that's how we get competitive in the Indianas and Virginias," two of six or seven states that long have been Republican -- but are targets this year.

"That's why I pay more attention to the registration figures than to the polls I see at this time of year," Plouffe said. "The polls will change, but we know we need 200,000 new voters to be competitive in Georgia, and now is when we have to get them."

That mind-set -- take care of business and don't worry about irrelevancies -- is what struck me in talking to Obama's team in the primary states. Here, as in the states, they seem singularly devoid of turf battles or personal feuds.

Joe Rospars, who coordinates the computer files for organization, fundraising and communications, tested my limited knowledge of that world with a half-hour seminar on how these things work together. Rospars, who had a similar job in Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, said that "the big difference this year is not the technology, it's the coordination."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503098.html

[Spazito]

1. Okay, I must be missing something....

This is, largely, a positive column on the Obama campaign written by......



David Broder??????

I must be missing his sneering, snark he usually puts into his columns or he has been replaced by a doppleganger!

[dkf]

2. Looks like he was impressed :)

I know I am.

[pretzel4gore]

3. Broder's well oiled arse...

he's an earner....lol