Posted on 02/19/2012 7:53:50 AM PST by Brandonmark
While the Republican presidential candidates have been battling in Florida and other state primaries, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has been quietly putting together what aides say will be the biggest grass-roots campaign organization in Florida history.
It's run out of a dingy storefront in Ybor City, but aims at a state-spanning army of thousands of volunteers making phone calls, canvassing neighborhoods and registering voters.
Their goal is to repeat Obama's stunning 2008 Florida victory. That, political experts say, would make it virtually impossible for any Republican to build an Electoral College majority to defeat him.
Obama's Florida campaigners say there's little question they will have a bigger grass-roots organization than they had in 2008, which they say was the state's largest.
But they may also face a tougher political situation.
Obama, then a fresh face promising change and breaking racial barriers, ran against a Republican with a previously unsuccessful presidential run, John McCain, to replace an unpopular Republican incumbent, George W. Bush.
Voters then were alarmed about the economy; now they have suffered through years of its collapse, Florida worse than most of the nation.
"Florida voters are focused on the economy and jobs," said Mitt Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams. "Obama will be defeated on the basis of his economic record, not on how many staffers or offices he has across Florida."
Obama campaign staff members won't give out numbers about their organizing effort — how many paid staff and volunteers, or of the "neighborhood team captains" they say are the linchpin of the effort.
But the campaign has 11 other offices in the state, more than any Republican campaign had at the height of the GOP primary season in late January, and will soon open more.
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Psychological operations by Obama’s morons in the media. Bambi is in trouble here, and this talk of “troops” is laughable....BO expects to carry Leon, Broward, and Palm Beach. Miami-Dade will be won, but not by a huge margin. Everywhere else, he is toast.
Bailout money?
The clown has slush-funded his & his wife & family’s mugs all over the place - on the internet...
- it’s in my email
- on random websites
“Join the effort” junk...it’s fareakin everywhere. ugh!
He COULD take $$ from his daddy, Soros...but NOOOO! He’s got to steal it from us.
doubletriplequadruple UGH!
Today saw $3.99 for 89 Premium close to Joe Robbin Stadium!!!
Larry Klayman and others have filed suit against Browning for the none NBC requirement to be on the Fla Ballots!!!
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