Barack Obama’s Internet Campaign Magic Revealed: The “Machinery of Hope” by Tim Dickinson;
Barack Obama’s Internet Campaign Magic Revealed: The “Machinery of Hope” by Tim Dickinson; how Barack Obama Amassed hundred of thousands of Supporters/Foot Soldiers Through the Internet to Push his Campaign Over the Top:
By Marc Chamot
How did an obscure senator from Illinois, a black Christian with a Muslim name like Barack Hussein Obama become the perennial front runner and the possible/likely next president of the United States?
How has this unknown senator out of nowhere successfully kicking butt of traditional Washington political machines of the Democratic and Republican hierarchies of Hillary Clinton and John McCain, and becoming Americas new cry for hope? The answers to these questions stumped me for months while witnessing Barack Obama accumulating delegates after delegates on election days.
Barack Obama is the new revolutionary leader like many others that have come and gone throughout history. Such as the bad ones like Che Guevera, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and our good revolutionary forefathers and thousands of others throughout world history. He’s got a runaway train movement going for himself and his weapons of choice for his revolution is not the spear, or the sword, rifle, or machineguns and pistols, it’s the Internet!
It wasn’t until I watched CNN’s Rick Sanchez last night when the answers to my questions became crystal clear. When he interviewed Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson’s about his latest sizzling article on the Barack Obama secret success of his campaign, I listened with greatest fascination and interest.
It was about Barack Obama Internet mobilizing/recruitment of hundreds of thousands massive foot soldiers for his campaign working in every state of the union.
Barack Obama not only asked for money and endorsements from his supporters and politicians towards his campaign, he also demanded them to be active like typical activists should be in promoting his candidacy.
I immediately Googled for the story and analyzed it. I was simply amazed by the contents of Tim Dickinson’s story. In essence Barack Obama has become the better half of Internet technology where Howard Dean failed on his last presidential run of 2004.
But this makes Barack Obama look like a genius compared to Dean or maybe Barack Obama is not the genius after all behind these ingenious schemes but his hired strategists like Steve Hildebrand and other hired gurus who are the real brains behind this system.
Tim Dickinson’s article has been both pretty fascinating and scary to read.
What I mean by fascinating, it confirms my prior beliefs that in America, the left leaning liberals truly dominate the Internet and have become the new “sheeple” in Barack Obama’s beliefs and movement. Also the Internet now dominates politics where traditional media used to.
By scary I mean it’s worrisome because hundreds and thousands of people have poured their souls, sweat and money into the Barack Obama campaign. Including financing their own trips to Chicago for training sessions at “Camp Obama” in grass roots organizing, and a disappointment short of winning the nomination and presidency fairly could be disastrous for the country and the Democratic Party.
The power of "Camp Obama"
Quote: "They're incredibly structured. And you know why? They went to Camp Obama."
No group represents the campaign machine that Obama has built better than AlamObama. A year ago, the group was nothing more than eight people who attended an informal get-together at a Borders bookstore.
Today, it's a 600-member grass-roots outfit an all-volunteer field operation that hums with the energy and efficiency of a fully staffed campaign office."
Barack Obama has unequivocally placed the presidential nomination into a political version of a Catch-22; you’re damned if you do or damned if you don’t.
And if there is any chance where Super Delegates or the presidential elections by the Electoral College his supporters see Barack Obama as having been robbed the nomination it could be a devastating violent blow for the country and the Democratic Party.
Can Hillary Clinton overcome the Obama firestorm? It might be too little too late and only if she cheats like in acquiring her lost Florida and Michigan delegates and or if the Democratic Super Delegates vote in her favor.
How about with John McCain? Can McCain overcome the Barack Obama juggernaut?
With little money raised for his campaign and the unpopularity of the Republican Party might be tough for John McCain. He would also have to depend on a little cheating like the “electoral college votes” going in his favor. It could very well happen if the popular votes are close.
Barring any more catastrophic mistakes from Obama like the drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens fiasco, the NAFTA and Iraq troop pullout rhetoric it’s really Obama’s to win or lose this election.
Whether Barack Obama wins or loses. There is no question about it that Barack Obama has forever changed the political landscapes throughout all fifty states of the union. He has brought in new people, disenfranchised people, and younger people into the mix that would normally be discouraged and never vote.
This is only a short version of the story with the main points and ideas posted below.
The Machinery of Hope
Inside the grass-roots field operation of Barack Obama, who is transforming the way political campaigns are run
TIM DICKINSONPosted Mar 20, 2008
In recent weeks, however, the campaign has granted Rolling Stone rare access to its top strategists and organizers, who discussed in detail the mechanics of Obama's meteoric ascendancy.
Two weeks before the Texas primary, train precinct captains for Barack Obama" Our job is not to run in here to tell you how it's going to be," Ukman tells them. "This is your campaign. Not our campaign."
Over the past year, the Obama campaign has quietly worked to integrate the online technologies that fueled the rise of Howard Dean —as well as social-networking and video tools that didn't even exist in 2004 — with the kind of neighbor-to-neighbor movement-building that Obama learned as a young organizer on the streets of Chicago.
"That's the magic of what they've done," says Simon Rosenberg, president of the Democratic think tank NDN. "They've married the incredibly powerful online community they built with real on-the-ground field operations. We've never seen anything like this before in American political history."
In the process, the Obama campaign has shattered the top-down, command-and-control, broadcast-TV model that has dominated American politics since the early 1960s. "They have taken the bottom-up campaign and absolutely perfected it," says Joe Trippi, who masterminded Dean's Internet campaign in 2004. "It's light-years ahead of where we were four years ago.
They'll have 100,000 people in a state who have signed up on their Web site and put in their zip code. Now, paid organizers can get in touch with people at the precinct level and help them build the organization bottom up. That's never happened before. It never was possible before."
For the Full Story:
http://marcchamot.blogspot.com/2008/03/barack-obamas-internet-campaign-magic.html
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