Field Operations

I’m in the air right now, on my way to Sen. John McCain’s first stop of the day in Tampa, Fla. Next comes Blountville, TN. Then we’re off to Moon Township, PA. — sadly, not the home of a “Moon Township Victory Rally” but rather a final stab at Pittsburgh. That ends at 2:30 p.m., [...]

The Obama campaign says it has passed another organizing milestone.
Writing from Chicago on Sen. Barack Obama’s social network, MyBo, Amy Hamblin reports that supporters have posted a whopping 200,000 events, with volunteers steadily “blowing past one milestone after another.”  The pace of event organization has dramatically accelerated, Hamblin noted, since the campaign only passed the [...]

As dynamic as Sen. Barack Obama is seen in the popular imagination, what has gotten him here today — 15 points ahead of Sen. John McCain in the latest Pew poll — is his and his organization’s ability to methodically achieve one goal, and then another.

Forget the candidates. The biggest political battle this weekend was between the Obama field staffs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two big swing states. The two sides were locked into a ferocious war over who could knock on more voters’ doors.
The Obama campaign stoked the interstate rivalry by using an online scoreboard to keep track of [...]

Unlike previous Democratic presidential candidates, Obama has taken a cue from the state’s governor and freshman senator and launched an all-inclusive 88-county strategy with an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Ohioans have never seen anything like it.

Sen. Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but his top aides are running hard today.
Obama’s senior strategists held a national news conference by telephone today, bullishly arguing that the campaign is on offense and surging in red states, while Sen. John McCain is scampering to Pennsylvania for an unlikely “pathway to victory,” as campaign [...]