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Obama Working To Rebuild Grassroots Army

AP | By KEN THOMAS | Posted 07.16.2011

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PHILADELPHIA -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is barely a month old, but Camille Gervasio and other volunteers nationwide already are ...

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Obama the President Defeats Obama the Movement

Jeffrey Winters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Winters

Activity replaced apathy. Excitement replaced boredom. Hope replaced resignation. Many feel foolish for allowing a flicker of hope to interrupt their experienced pessimism.

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President Obama: Trust Young Americans to Relay the Healthcare Message!

Stephen Ratner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Ratner

If the president is to pass his health care legislation, he must tap into the core base of support the helped him win the 2008 elections -- a core that consists significantly of young Americans.

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Dear GOP: Watch Your AstroTurf, We're On to You

Kase Wickman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kase Wickman

Dissent is essential to democracy, and freedom of speech and the right to assemble are vital and not reserved for one party or the other. The problem is this Republicans: you're doing it wrong.

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10 People, 10 Backgrounds, One President (VIDEO)

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christina Bellantoni

What happens when you bring together 10 strangers with nothing in common for a conversation about what Obama's candidacy means to them and how they may continue their work to help the administration?

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Women And The 2008 Election: A New Majority

Julie Menin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julie Menin

While some celebrated that New Hampshire just became the first state to have a majority of women legislators in one of their chambers, the question to ask is, why are they the only ones?

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Obama Camp Asks Supporters: What Now?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe is asking supporters how to keep their network going now that the election is over, TechPresident reports....

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Memo To David Plouffe

Ben Arnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Arnon

Please, Mr. Plouffe, on behalf of the vast infrastructure of dedicated Democratic field organizers and community activists, go run the DNC.

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Obama's Voter Registration Explosion

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Reaching new people is futile if they aren't registered to vote. The Obama campaign has united web and field recruitment to wage one of the largest voter registration drives of a modern campaign.

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ObamaTravel.org: The Candidate's Latest Grassroots Strategy

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Newmark

Here we have what looks like real "community organizing" -- online and offline-- and, however much it may have been maligned last week in St Paul, "community organizing" is grassroots democracy.

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Denver Vlogging For Democracy

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Newmark

The big reason I'm here is to stand up for participatory democracy. This election marks the serious beginning of a shift from big-money governance to networked governance.

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Obama Convention Speech Recruitment Drive Draws Flood Of Volunteers

Calvin Gipson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Calvin Gipson

John McCain acknowledged Barack Obama's mass appeal through his efforts to tag Obama as nothing more than a celebrity who lacks the experience to lead...

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Comic-Con Campaign Politics: Democratic Grassroots Taps Youth Energy

Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonah Lalas

Cynara Kidwell dressed up as Obama Woman and yelled out to the crowd, "Be democracy's hero. Register to vote!" She wore blue hair, red heels, a cape and an Obama logo on her chest.

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The Obama FISA Quandary

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dawn Teo

This group should work to defeat the FISA bill by pressuring enough senators to make sure it fails to pass. Instead, a great number of them are targeting Obama and so shooting themselves in the foot.

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Surveillance Vote Protesters Now Top Obama's Website

The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011

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Protesters are storming Barack Obama's website. But they all support Obama. A grassroots group of activists has been organizing on MyBo, Obama's offi...

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Obama's "Big Tent" Campaign Cuts Out The Little People In California

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Bach

I was excitedly telling everyone that I was running to be an Obama delegate from California to the Democratic National Convention, until the campaign cut me and 900 others from the list last night.

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