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Virginia Volunteers Give Their All

Carol Franco | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

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Virginia Campaign for Change Headquarters, Marshall St., Richmond: We waltz in on weekends, hubby and I, log on for a few hours of data entry, place a...

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Palin Motivates California Dems to Volunteer for Obama

Reny Monk | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

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An older woman in a back brace traveled from Palm Springs to Nevada to work the phones in a campaign office there. "I will do anything to prevent that trailer trash from getting into office," she said of Palin.

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Lives on Hold Until Election Day

Chris Savage | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

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By becoming so immersed in Barack Obama's campaign, my wife and I have literally put our lives on hold. Our kitchen sink is perpetually full of dirty dishes, the dogs are unwalked and the water faucet is dripping. Turns out, we're not alone.

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Voters Haven't Given Up On American Dream

Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

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The last time we had spoken, Richard had been a clear undecided. Intelligent, thoughtful and torn he was also a man clearly down on his luck and looking for a way out.

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Are You On the Obama Or McCain Campaign's Email List?

Amanda Michel | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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Share with HuffPost's OffTheBus the emails the Obama and McCain campaigns sent you over the weekend. We're working on a story comparing and contrasting the campaign end-game strategies in states around the country.

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Political Tourists and Out-of-State Obama Activists in Indiana

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home

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Red and blue state Obama supporters are putting their weight on the see-saw state of Indiana, crossing state lines to help. Political tourists from ot...

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McCain Hiring Field Organizers Who Support Obama

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

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The UK Times reports that some of John McCain's canvassers are actually supporting Barack Obama -- they're just there for the money. Two women walk o...

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Illinois Obama Volunteers Target Nearby Swing States

Chicago Sun-Times | Lynn Sweet | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago

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Lynn Sweet reports: Obama Illinois State Director Ken Bennet, who has been keeping a low profile all this time, emerges in a video to ask Illinois O...

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Grab a Piece.

Daniel Chun | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Obama supporters, it's time to come to grips with the fact that our guy might win. If he does, November 4th will be amazing. But it'll be much more amazing if you feel like you played a role.

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Texans for Obama Take New Mexico by Storm

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

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"The bathroom," our busdriver Jerry announced, "is like an outhouse. So don't use it unless it's an emergency. An' if you do have to use it, put the lid down. That'll help keep the smell down for the people in the back." Five rows from the back of the bus, I observed those around me looking uncomfortably at one another.

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Yes, We Must!

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Like Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, Obama has united us in a common cause for the good of our nation.

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Obama Volunteer Rewarded With "VIP Seating" In Mud

Chuck Lasker | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home

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I looked for the "VIP" seats, but there were no seats. Further and further we were sent, until in the rain, we entered a muddy open-air pen where we couldn't even see the stage.

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How Obama Camp Built A New Generation Of Progressive Volunteers

Firedoglake | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Inside the Obama campaign, almost without anyone noticing, an insurgent generation of organizers has built the Progressive movement a brand new and po...

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Obama Campaign Uses Little Steps To Make Big Movement

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.07.2008 | Home

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What Obama's campaign does that is different is to ask canvassers and callers to personally take a stake in making a difference in the leanings of voters. Quite simply it is predicated on the very questionable statistical significance of one human influencing another.

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Journal Your Campaign Volunteer Experiences for HuffPost's OffTheBus

Amanda Michel | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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At HuffPost's OffTheBus, our specialty is covering the presidential campaign in new and exciting ways by having people on the ground write about their...

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Motivated Millennials On The Ground In VA

Josh Chernila | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

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It's so close in Virginia that it's now all about the ground game. The idea is simply to recruit volunteers to work in key regions to drive turnout for Obama. The focus is on seven key counties.

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Obama Advancing On The Ground, Under Pollsters' Radar

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

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It increasingly looks like this election will be determined by investments on the ground, in local precincts across the country, an area of the campaign Obama has excelled at but that polls don't pick up on.

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ObamaTravel.org: The Candidate's Latest Grassroots Strategy

Craig Newmark | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

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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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Obama Convention Speech Recruitment Drive Draws Flood Of Volunteers

Calvin Gipson | Posted 09.14.2008 | Home

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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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Obama Grassroots Snapshot: South Carolina

Grayson Daughters | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home

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"Our effort is to reach out and make contact with those people who will support Barack Obama as their canidate. We're not concerned with what the other parties are doing -- on the volunteer level, that's really not on us."

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Obama 2.0: Online-Offline and Everywhere in Tampa Bay

Shawna Vercher | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

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None of the army of Obama volunteers could recall seeing a Republican presence at any of the dozens of events they had attended since the voter registration campaign began more than two weeks ago.

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Muslim woman: Scarf kept her from seat near Obama

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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DETROIT — A young Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama _ and in front of TV cameras _ at a De...

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