Obama Campaign Launches "Vote For Change" Voter Registration Drive

Today, May 10, marks the first day of what the Obama campaign is calling its "Vote For Change" project. From barackobama.com:

On May 10th, Barack Obama is launching Vote for Change, an unprecedented 50-state voter registration and mobilization drive. More than 100 events will be held across the country that day. Obama volunteers will register new voters as the start of a six-month voter registration drive.

Marc Ambinder has more on just what this project entails and its potential impact:

The Vote For Change program will lay the foundation for Obama's general election get-out-the-vote efforts. Obama aides won't say much more, but I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

Comments

[Kalima]

2773 posts and stuck on 11 pages for the past hour. My first post which was from the heart
and which many answered kindly, is now on it's way to Pluto along with your replies.
I am a little peeved and will wish you all a good night. BG&E have a good one.
Oyasumi nasai and Gute Nacht!

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Night Kalima! Thanks... Kanpai!

[AMJordan]

Good night and good luck!

[SCG]

CNN just reporting Hillary's superdelegate lead is now down to one superdelegate.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

ABC reported that Obama has passed her a couple of days ago. They seem to have different numbers.

[SCG]

Maybe superdelegates are lying to the press?....it won't be a boring convention this yr.

[CocteausTwin]

I was suspect when ABC was the source. I figured they were trying to lower turn out, or some other BS agenda. Maybe they were just trying to get a few hits on their site. Thats why I always look at the links location before I click on it. I will just go straight to the comments link if it one I do not want to support. I;d be interested in seeing ABC hits history since their so-called "debate."

[cluesearch]

Awesome! Did you guys catch the opening sketch on SNL tonight? Ouch, Dear Hill, it is o-v-e-r. I'm an Obama, formerly Hillary supporter and left when she got negative. The sketch was scathing and painful to watch, but very true.

[JavaCityGal]

I'm an Obama supporter and that sketch made me even cringe ..ouch!

[whizkid]

But weren't you people all about how superdelegates shouldn't count a while ago and damn well better back their district/state if they do?

[CocteausTwin]

Weren't "you" people all about how small states didn't matter? Have fun in WV. Do you all have a poll under your troll bridge?

[eurydice]

Now the hack Bill Schneider is trying to push the Hillary VP thing. Check it out:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/09/west.virginia/index.html

And he's trying to do it by pushing Hilary's ability to win the insignificant West Virginia primary. Does it really matter how Obama does in a KKK state?

[TocinoHumano]

KKK state? That's a pretty f*cked up thing to say.

[eurydice]

West Virginia is famous for being a stronghold for the KKK. Even Senator Robert Byrd got his start in the KKK, though he personally, later renounced them. But the KKK is still strong in West Virginia and in Kentucky, and Hilary is playing to them with her racist comments.

The bottom line is:

The Clintons are racists. Bill played the race card in '92 just to win the election, but it is clear now that BOTH Hillary and Bill will do anything to prevent an African-American from becoming President.

Hillary and Bill are clearly horrified at the notion, and are acting accordingly, both personally and through surrogates. It's become obvious. Hillary and Bill are the racist candidates, and the people that continue to support them are the racist voting block.
And West Virginia and Kentucky are bastions of this ignorant racist voting block.

Both states will go to McCain in November anyway, so it makes no difference who wins the primary in these primitive places.

[luvthelaw]

Come one, let's play nice. Hillary's win may be insignificant in the long run but WV isn't. And a win is a win, Obama would want us to be gracious.

[eurydice]

West Virginia is where they play banjos at lynchings.

[whizkid]

Enjoy the NY Times article on Obama tomorrow.

Funny. Theres a chance for the first AA president, but to do so he, his wife, and campaign advisor are willing to take race relations and the party back 40 years.
Change you can believe in indeed.

[kevenseven]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[AMJordan]

Poke da badjur!

Hasn't been right about one thing yet.

[BearsLeft]

Oh, piss boy!

Over here.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

LOL

[AMJordan]

I, for one, support the right to arm bears!

[BearsLeft]

Wait for the shake!

[SCG]

Nonsense, and your're believing your own distortions. Turn FOX off because they are incapible of the truth. I was watching the reporter who was covering Michelle and it wasn't anything like what I witnessed in the same speech.

People will see for themselves, and those trying to malign them will be the discredted ones.

[JavaCityGal]

yawn

[AdLib]

Happy Birthday BGAE and (belatedly) Kalima. I wonder what your wishes were when you blew out the candles? I think it's come true!

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Thanks so much AdLib! ;-)

[Aleka4]

Oh i had no idea! Happy birthday to both of you!

[Kalima]

Thanks AdLib! I was a little bit sloshed at the time, but I'm sure it was something good,
like wishing for Obama to be your next President.

[CocteausTwin]

I am new here (I am DreamConjuror as well, but that software glitch - you know,) I wish you both get your birthday wish -- whatever it may be.

[AMJordan]

I'm going to post this once and once only.

If any of you Repulsive Operatives crawl out of your slime pit and try to claim to be some kind of Clinton-supporter we will out you so fast that your eyes will spin.

BTW: Only Repulsive Badjurs like you would use the phrase "card carrying Democrat" which is a phrase used to connect the Democrats with Communists and has it's origins with McCarthism.

[akkadian]

Obama-Kennedy 08!

[AMJordan]

Huh?

[SCG]

I'm with you.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Caroline, Patrick, Bobby or Teddy?

[TocinoHumano]

Caroline would be cool.

[ChiGuy]

Tom!!!

[AdLib]

Okay, the Obama part I'm totally behind but...well don't get me wrong, I loved him in "Cool Hand Luke" and even the "Naked Gun" movie but George Kennedy is just to inexperienced to be Obama's VP.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

LOL

[AMJordan]

Not to mention that he has shuffled off his mortal coil and joined the choir eternal.

[1question]

Sen. Clinton:

I thank you...

...for your extra ordinary service in Bosnia "welcoming ceremonies" under very complicated, imaginary and tricky sniper fire conditions...just visualize the horror of it all...the horror...!?!?

and for your...

Real Electablility Power Point Presentation to Undecided "super delegates"

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/05/clintons-real-electability-pow.php

[ManyColored]

At first I was angry at Clinton for taking the low road in the primary campaigns. But in retrospect, even as some Republican strategists have pointed out, this has helped him, because it gave him a chance to show he can stand up to a major challenge from a strong candidate; he can respond to mud in the right way; he can keep his cool; and he has a chance to address issues the Republicans were going to bring up anyhow. Now he has a better idea of how to meet the tactics the Republicans will take against him, and he has shown us that he has the guts to take on formidable issues and overcome them. And he has clearly developed a tremendous grassroot system of volunteers and resource of new voters. The people who want to discredit him now are not the ones who can be persuaded to vote for him; he is reaching out to all those who feel disenfranchised and are willing to listen. Those are the people he has to reach, and I think he's doing a hell of a job.

[Cunningham]

Hillary sure hasn't meant to do Obama any favors. Quite the contrary.

The Clintons and the 'War on Obama'
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/050308.html

[ChiGuy]

"...because it gave him a chance to show he can stand up to a major challenge from a strong candidate..."
_______________________________________________________

Not only that.
The Hillary camp has dug up about as much as can be dug up on him, and the voters have had their say on the matter.
They are sick and tired of the lies and specious innuendos that any attempt on McCain's part to resurrect them will be met with nothing but anger.

[BearsLeft]

What's this about lion innuendos resurrected by the Endangered Specious act?

[Countdown09]

I would agree if I thought her intentions were good. There were a few occasion she and Bill crossed the line.

[CocteausTwin]

I am wondering if Clinton is trying to hold on to something she considers dirt to release after the last primary vote is cast, that way the American people can't show their complete and utter outrage at her. Paranoia? Perhaps, but her current history of tactics she makes it plausible.

[notthistime]

hear hear. Anything outside the issues will be tossed out like bathwater.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

Yes and no. Yes it helped Obama who looked great under pressure and now he can claim to be fully vetted. No in that it made too many Hillary supporters hate Obama. Hillary is the most polarizing figure in American politics today. She not only split people between parties now she was successful at splitting the Democratic party.

[SaviourMachine]

Ok it's been a great day but it's time to recharge the batteries...

Before I say goodnight just wanted to share a couple of songs that played in my head while I was registering voters today..enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-Q2rDd6Tw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-Q2rDd6Tw

[Cunningham]

Good work today, thanks! Sleep well...

[emmav70]

HELP !

WTF !

SNL is soooooo boring !
Who's writing for them ?

CarlsV
HumeSkeptic
CuriousPerson

Need extra money ?

You guys are hilarious!

[TocinoHumano]

As far as I'm concerned, SNL has been soooooo boring since 1981. But I'm an old grouch and a curmudgeon and that's exactly what I would think.

[only1Demvoter]

T.Humano : Hear ! Hear !!

( I resemble that remark. )

I miss the ' Not Ready For Prime Time Players ' too.


-ralph

[eurydice]

It's been downhill since Aykroyd and Belushi left.

[AdLib]

Being funny is actually a setback to trying to get a job on SNL.

[eurydice]

If being funny was a job requirement for SNL, Tina Fey would never have gotten on the show.

[SaskiaStars]

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you - I thought Amy was perfect as Hillary this evening- I laughed out loud.

[tene]

that opening part seemed so funny cuz it was true. but the rest of the show bombed.

[Rasteira]

TO: FEMINISTS/WOMEN(specifically)/and EVERYONE ELSE FOR OBAMA 08'

We really need to mobilize and stop just talking about the party.
Blogsites like TaylorMarsh and Hillaryis44 are like the HQ for
ignorant, malinformed females voting for Hillary for the wrong reasons.
It wouldn't be as bad if the sites weren't so onesided, but they've become
a refuge for vitriol, to reflect the idiocy of the maker of the blog. Please help
by threadjacking these sites and getting the word out. We already know
most on HuffPo get it. It's time to descend into the crevasses and abysses
of degeneracy and shine a flashlight. I don't mean fight VITRIOL WITH VITRIOL.
These places really need a help with information, because the blog owners
are keeping them dumb with lies, bias, and selective information. HELP ME OUT.

[e-mail] (if you're interested)

[WLA]

Let me get this straight. You're recruiting trolls to wade through that muck? It's bad enough we have to deal with them here.

[AMJordan]

Deep Announcer voice:

"AND THUS THE TROLL WARS BEGIN!"

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

They will delete anything pro-Obama, and ban you.

[SCG]

Until the word comes down from the top, ie Hillary, it will continue.

[MA4HRC]

Last time I checked, the hate was pretty thick on this site. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. I visited Taylor Marshe's site once and I think that these women are smart enough to remain immune to the strong dose of koolaide that the huffpo writes. Thanks for the tip though, I'll check them out more often. It's good to have a conersation with adults.

[AMJordan]

Having scouted hillaryis44, taylormarsh and MyDD I would say to you, "Buh bye".

So I poked the Badjur.

[kevenseven]

You left of talkleft.

And they will ban anyone who does not toe the orthodoxy.

[VolvoBirkenstock]

Ron Paul takes Washington!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh1m_-Vou08

[loki]

Did 3 people show up?

[TocinoHumano]

David Duke, his friend, and his other friend.

[only1Demvoter]

V.Birkenstock : Oh ! You are in rare form tonight !!

( As I pick myself up off the floor... )

Tears of laughter...


-ralph

[eurydice]

Please tell me this isn't true.

Check out this link to a Carl Bernstein article:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/10/bernstein.clinton/index.html

Surely there is no possibility that Obama would even consider Hillary as VP. That would be almost as bad as her being the presidential nominee. I myself CANNOT vote for a ticket that has her name on it.

If Obama brings her on as the VP candidate, the ticket will not get my vote.

Someone please tell me Carl Bernstein is full of it.
Or let's a start a movement to nip this disaster in the bud.

Obama/Anybodybut Hillary '08

[Cunningham]

He's been kind to her saying that she'd be on anybody's short list.

But that's as far as it goes. No way would he have her on the ticket with him.

[Kache]

She would be on "anybody's" list. But Obama isn't just "anybody".

[AdLib]

Bernstein is a Beltway hack, who can forget his love letter book to Bush after 9/11?

Ignore the sellout.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Exactly.

[Cunningham]

That was Bob Woodward, Bernstein's partner in uncovering the Watergate scandal.

[loki]

I ve been seeing this all over the internet too. Even here on Hufpo. It would be disaster for Obama as Hillary is the Rethuglicans secret weapon to winning the white house again if she wins the nominations. To many people hate her and Bill and would rather see Mcwar than Hillary in the white house. And lets just say for one minute Obama has a lapse in judgment and takes on Hillary , and lets even stretch this fantasy more and pretend they would win. Do you really think Obama would want Hillary nagging him and Bill ordering him all the time?

[Jaxxon]

It's not true. VolvoBirk introduced this article from today's UK Telegraph.

"The strategist said Mr Obama has "no intention" of making Mrs Clinton his running mate, but that he is prepared to offer an olive branch to her supporters by seating delegates from Michigan and Florida, won by Mrs Clinton but excluded because they broke party rules."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/1943910/Barack-Obama-%27has-enough-super-delegates-to-win-Democratic-nomination%27.html

[ManyColored]

I hope he doesn't. She would look to stab him in the back at every opportunity. Plus she just doesn't fit his philosophy of no more business as usual in Washington. I just can't see this working.

[Cunningham]

FIX the headline on the main page, HuffPost.

1,500,000 individual donors!!! (as of May 6th)

[AMJordan]

But a Million is a Nice Round Number!

[Cunningham]

One and a half million sounds much sweeter to me.

[loki]

Dont expect hufpo to start making truthful and accurate headlines now.