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message of rejecting the partisanship of the past and don’t need anyone muddying their message with negative ads. They have a large enough volunteer base geographically dispersed enough to run their own 50-state field campaign (which they already launched this last weekend). That’s a short-sighted view, however. The Obama campaign isn’t the end-all, be-all of progressive, or even Democratic, politics. He may well have the money and volunteers to pull this off all by himself this year, but will he do the same next

their message of rejecting the partisanship of the past and don't need anyone muddying their message with negative ads. They have a large enough volunteer base geographically dispersed enough to run their own 50-state field campaign (which they already launched this last weekend). That's a short-sighted view, however. The Obama campaign isn't the end-all, be-all of progressive, or even Democratic, politics. He may well have the money and volunteers to pull this off all by himself this year, but will he do the same next year,

-- is expected to be up, and that early voting was up as well state-wide. And that Democratic participation thus far has been kicking Republican ass. Boo yah, yet again. And even better news (YouTube)? The Obama campaign has launched a 50 state "Vote for Change" voter registration drive for November. So we can hopefully keep adding to those already impressive voter participation numbers as we head into the fall. Yup, just sitting here soaking in the Greatest Primary

-- is expected to be up, and that early voting was up as well state-wide. And that Democratic participation thus far has been kicking Republican ass. Boo yah, yet again. And even better news (YouTube)? The Obama campaign has launched a 50 state "Vote for Change" voter registration drive for November. So we can hopefully keep adding to those already

could become a swing state with higher youth turnout. Texas and Georgia are also quite young and could become competitive with a strong youth turnout coupled with an improvement in Hispanic and black turnout, respectively. One can see quickly how the Vote for Change events are drawing a victory map in an otherwise fairly even landscape. There is also a study in increased Latino turnout and it's effect upon Obama's performance in certain states like Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.

However, voter registration rates lag somewhat behind in the African-American community. As of 2004, 68.7 percent of African-American citizens aged 18+ were registered to vote, as compared with 75.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites. Thus, Barack Obama's 50-state voter registration drive, when coupled with the historical nature of his candidacy, could produce big dividends within this group. What would be the electoral impact of an increase in African-American participation of 10 percent, 20 percent, or more? Fortunately, we have the

En av Obamakampanjens främsta konkurrensfördelar är deras förmåga att engagera nya väljare. Nu, i god tid innan valet i november, påbörjar de en stor väljarregistreringskampanj i alla 50 delstater. Två personer i John McCains kampanj avgår efter att deras tidigare förbindelser till militärjuntan i Burma har blivit kända. McCains kampanj har fört fram idén att McCain och Obama ska kampanja en del tillsammans. Till

The TrailObama Launches 50-State Voter Registration Drive By Garance Franke-Ruta Sen. Barack Obama may not yet be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, but Saturday morning his campaign launched in more than 100 other locations across the country a na. [