The shallow stream of local Democratic politics worries me. It seems ot me that there is to much faith in Obama’s machine and too little understanding of the need to build a local, sophisticate party. That hope may come from Organizing for America an offshoot of the 2012 campaign.
Howie in Seattle suggest that Obama’s Organizing for America operation become the backbone of a revitalized Democratic Party? That is one possibility. Interestingly, a top Obama campaign official saidme that Dashboard, the campaign’s ballyhooed and somewhat maligned digital field organizing platform, could be an important piece of such a local push. “It could be more important in 2013 and 2014 than it was in 2012,” this person commented, “in the same way that it was for a volunteer in say, Tennessee, who didn’t have a local Obama office, than it was for one in Ohio who did.” MORE from Howie in Seattle…
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