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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (31613)	6/22/2008 8:40:33 PM
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Party leaders in Republican-leaning states are already reporting an influx of paid Obama staffers and volunteers who were sent there to begin registering potential Obama voters. Obama's team is also sending resources to Virginia, which no Democratic presidential candidate has won since 1964. The mobilization is being helped along by Obama's Internet operation specializing in reaching out to younger voters. Plouffe said the volunteer program was modeled after the one Bush's aides devised in 2004, when supporters went door to door to spread the word about Bush in their own neighborhoods. Four years ago, Democrats and their liberal allies scrambled to match the vast lists of personal voter data gathered by the Republicans through public records and consumer data banks. The Democratic National Committee has since greatly improved its voter information file, which is now at Obama's disposal. But Obama's aides were also considering buying another huge list with information on 230 million Americans. The list is owned by Catalist, a private concern co-founded by a longtime Democratic operative, Harold Ickes. Ickes said that Obama's campaign aides were particularly interested in new information his company had gathered about cable television viewing habits. Obama campaign officials said that was because they were considering a specially tailored commercial campaign on niche cable networks that could give Obama special access to groups his campaign considers crucial for victory. All of this is going to take more than the $43.1 million Obama had in the bank as of last month. Officials said they expected that Clinton's fund-raisers could bring in a total of $75 million in the coming weeks. But, members of both parties said, Obama had his real advantage in his own group of 1.5 million donors, many of whom have given small amounts and could be readily tapped again. "They'll continue to give," said Eli Pariser, the executive director of the liberal group MoveOn, an Internet fund-raising pioneer. "As long as he doesn't treat them as an ATM, but as partners in the movement."

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