Obama Grassroots Snapshot: South Carolina

In North Charleston, in what's shaping up to be another shocker of a semi-battleground state, South Carolina, citizen journalist Grayson Daughters YouTubed Obama volunteers registering voters. The state has a history of ugly partisan and race-baiting politics. "We're most of us new to politics. Most of us have stayed out and it's mostly because of negative ads that you see on TV," says Charlie Cyr. Reverend Randolf Scipio says: "Our effort is to reach out and make contact with those people who will support Barack Obama as their candidate. We're not concerned with what the other parties are doing -- on the volunteer level, that's really not on us."

Comments

[nonprophet]

07:31 AM on 07/18/2008

Thanks for coming to our voter registrati­on event, Grayson! We registered 46 voters at the Liberty Hill street corner, and, with the help of our MoveOn friends, we registered a total of 140 voters at various North Charleston locations on that day.

We''ll be back tomorrow --- we're fired up in Charleston­!

[Faith101]

10:43 PM on 07/17/2008

Great work, keep it coming folks, we have got to take back the WH and turn this country around for the good of all mankind.

[JJeff88]

10:51 AM on 07/17/2008

Grayson said: "We're not concerned with what the other parties are doing -- on the volunteer level, that's really not on us."

Perfect attitude. Winning campaigns are characteri­zed by everyone knowing what their job is and then doing it. without worrying about what someone else is up to.

Just keep on grinding - & stay fired up and RTG.

[SpaceyG]

06:24 PM on 07/17/2008

I didn't say that. The Rev. Scipio said that. I'm merely the messenger/­mic holder. Some folks go so far as to call 'em reporters. Come to think about it, some people, usually the crew (don't have one of those at the moment) call reporter/m­ic holder types "the talent." On TV news at least. Wanna make a "real" TV news reporter just hopping mad? Call 'em "the talent." Works every time!