1.0 link 132782 <![CDATA[The New Organizers, What's really behind Obama's ground game]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html Inside the Obama campaign, almost without anyone noticing, an insurgent generation of organizers has built the Progressive movement a brand new and potentially durable people's organization, in a dozen states, rooted at the neighborhood level.

The "New Organizers" have succeeded in building what many netroots-oriented campaigners have been dreaming about for a decade. Other recent attempts have failed because they were either so "top-down" and/or poorly-managed that they choked volunteer leadership and enthusiasm; or because they were so dogmatically fixated...

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