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Obama 2012 campaign’s Operation Vote focuses on ethnic minorities, core liberals
WaPo ^ | 09/24/11 | Peter Wallsten

Posted on 09/24/2011 8:42:14 PM PDT by freespirited

President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.

The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition that helped elect the country’s first black president.

Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.

Operation Vote will function as a large, centralized department in the Chicago campaign office for reaching ethnic, religious and other voter groups. It will coordinate recruitment of an ethnic volunteer base and push out targeted messages online and through the media to groups such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, seniors, young people, gays and Asian Americans.

The campaign this month hired a longtime Jewish political activist as a point person for that community, the first of many such hirings to come this fall as staffers are brought on from each of the target groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama2012; obamastrategy; operationvote; racialpolitics
Aren't ya glad we have a post-racial president?

/s

1 posted on 09/24/2011 8:42:19 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited

Hiring himself a Jewish lead person after the buttwhipping in NY9. We need a good candidate to tear him a new butt.,


2 posted on 09/24/2011 8:45:11 PM PDT by shankbear (Bush's fault......that is more in bad taste than my old tag line........)
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To: freespirited

So they are going to concentrate on getting people to vote for him that were all ready going to vote for him?


3 posted on 09/24/2011 8:55:07 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: freespirited

Hyper-nitrous oxide racism is more like it.


4 posted on 09/24/2011 8:55:40 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: freespirited

Aren’t ya glad we have a post-racial president?
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Oh yeah, he’s just such a great guy. His love for America continues to shine through./S


5 posted on 09/24/2011 8:56:49 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: freespirited

Translation: Play the race card over and over with the blacks and Latinos and tell the moronic white liberals anything they want to hear, because they will goose step behind any Marxist propagandist off a cliff, regardless of how incompetent he is in everything he does.

Obama’s true Marxist colors will be exposed, because he is going to go hard left instead of trying to get back the middle he has lost by the millions.

Dangerous times and pandering ahead.


6 posted on 09/24/2011 8:59:35 PM PDT by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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He is a very divisive leader: he is prepared to tear this country apart in order to save his sorry electoral ass. What did we do to deserve this?


7 posted on 09/24/2011 9:12:59 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: radpolis

My brother in law thinks that O will have a national emergency in November 12 that will cause the elections to be suspended.


8 posted on 09/24/2011 9:22:07 PM PDT by oldtimer (uee)
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To: MNJohnnie

Lot of those will stay home this election


9 posted on 09/24/2011 9:26:32 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Majo)
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To: freespirited

One billion dollars in campaign funds allows for a lot of street money and bribe money for getting out the vote.

Add in the millions of illegal aliens already registered by ACORN and the SEIU and you have a formidable bloc of voters.

Don’t rule out the importance of Obama’s “stash”.


10 posted on 09/24/2011 9:31:47 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: oldbill
A billion?

He just spread a Trillion around to his buds. Lots of favors to call in.

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11 posted on 09/24/2011 9:41:55 PM PDT by digger48
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To: freespirited
"Vote Obama, because he's Black" bumper stickers for sale!
12 posted on 09/24/2011 10:40:58 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: freespirited

It’s a turn out the votes that are left campaign.


13 posted on 09/24/2011 11:29:56 PM PDT by pallis
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To: freespirited

Kinda like an Evangelist evangelizing the evangelized.


14 posted on 09/25/2011 4:05:22 AM PDT by tal hajus ("Thank you sir. May I have another?" GOP)
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To: freespirited

Paging Morgan Freeman!


15 posted on 09/25/2011 4:07:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: freespirited

President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups

Translated.....Money that has been laundered through green initiatives, in the front door out the back will be handed out like candy to the entitlement crowd.


16 posted on 09/25/2011 4:10:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: freespirited

330,000 northern whites died between 1861-65 so that Obama could use Affirmative Action and race baiting.


17 posted on 09/25/2011 4:29:27 AM PDT by BilLies (The "Liberal" news media hates your traditional American guts.)
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To: oldbill

The other day I read that he’s only raised 20% as much as the corresponding time period in 2007.


18 posted on 09/25/2011 8:20:19 AM PDT by freespirited (Stupid people are ruining America. --Herman Cain)
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To: freespirited

bump


19 posted on 09/25/2011 8:26:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: freespirited

My God.


20 posted on 09/25/2011 11:15:21 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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