Oh really? Someone sent me a link to this article from Social Policy Magazine, Spring 2004 Issue which details some of Obama's early work with Acorn. The site Social Policy Magazine does require registration, unfortunately, to read the article.
Oh really? Someone sent me a link to this article from Social Policy Magazine, Spring 2004 Issue which details some of Obama's early work with Acorn. The site Social Policy Magazine does require registration, unfortunately, to read the article.
Great link I went and read the article after a free sign up. One quote really sticks out from there especially since Obama’s website still states he NEVER did any training classes for Acorn. Quote from Social Policy Magazine, Spring 2004 Issue
“Obama then went on to run a voter registration project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered 50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about 5000 of them).
Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he ever ran for office. Thus, it was natural for many of us to be active volunteers in his first campaign for State Senate and then his failed bid for U.S. Congress in 1996. By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends. And along about early March, we started to see that the African-American community had made its move: when Sen. Obama’s name was mentioned at our Southside Summit meeting with 700 people in attendance from three southside communities, the crowd went crazy. With about a week to go before the election, it was very clear how the African-American community would vote. But would they vote in high enough numbers?”