Much has been said about the young people who are such a vital part of the Obama campaign -- not just in supplying enthusiasm and willingness to work all hours, but the brains and organizational ability.
Sean Quinn, the FiveThirtyEight associate who has been making the national tour of campaign sites, finally reported on Georgia. Even with the "skeletal staff" left behind when the national campaign decided they needed to relocate some to more competitive states back in September, the Georgia operation still has 33 offices and 175 stanging locations in the state, more than 4 times as much as any prior Democratic campaign.
Communications Director Caroline Adelman "credited wunderkind field operator Alex Lofton, now in Ohio, with setting up the infrastructure before he was considered too valuable not to have in a more competitive state. He opened up all the offices, he trained all the kids, did conference calls twice a day," Adelman explained.
"He was 23 and doing things in a way twice his age couldn't accomplish." Such are Obama's young brilliant organizers the campaign's great underwritten story. . . . "Really, in Georgia, that's all we needed," Adelman said. "The rest of it was neighbor to neighbor. People needed to see people in their own neighborhood" talking about Barack Obama. "
Now THAT is community organizing, you Republican snobs !!!
Ralph
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Well, not all wunderkinds are created equal. We had one guy running the operation in Cary, NC who was so full of himself that on convention night he actually cut the sound during the Obama biography video so he could talk. Even when people started calling out that they wanted to see the video he said, "Yeah, that's important but this is important to." 'This' being his pitch to volunteer for him.
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