Obama Adds 20 Va. Offices In a Big Push To Win State

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced Wednesday that it is adding 20 offices across Virginia, an unprecedented effort by a presidential candidate and another sign that he plans to compete vigorously in a state that has been on the sidelines during past presidential contests.

The offices, which will open Saturday, will be in nearly every medium-size city in the state, along with a few locations often overlooked by statewide candidates, much less a presidential campaign.

"A lot of these places may have never had a presidential campaign before," state Sen. John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) said at an event announcing the offices. "It shows is investing in the commonwealth and it is a bottom-up, not a top-down campaign."

In vote-rich Fairfax County, where the Illinois Democrat has assigned a paid staff member to each of the county's nine magisterial districts, the campaign will have two offices. He also is opening offices in Woodbridge and Winchester to reach voters in the Washington region's fast-growing outer suburbs.

Many offices will be in traditional Republican strongholds, such as Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley and Lynchburg in southern Virginia. In southwestern Virginia, where Obama performed poorly in the Feb. 12 primary, the campaign will open an office in Bristol and in Castlewood, a town of 2,000 in the heart of the region's coal country.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602817.html?hpid=topnews

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Love it if he won Virginia!

[Ian David]

1. McCain opens campaign office in Czechoslovakia! n/t

[onehandle]

3. Atlantis. Don't forget the ancient country of his birth. nt

[williesgirl]

2. This is great news. Just read in local paper that Repuke registration is UP in my county (red) this

year. We're only 30 minutes from Fairfax County, but you'd think you entered the old deep South in alot of ways. It's rural, beautiful, in the mountains. It was changing rapidly until the mortgage/real estate/gas price crises put the brakes on it. The Winchester Office should help out though, not too far from me. I'll call them and volunteer. Thanks for posting this. rec'd

[NMDemDist2]

4. I just spoke with one of his organizers here in BumF@#k NM

BHO is sending 10! organizers to the 8 south eastern counties of NM, where cows out number people 5 to 1

10!

:wow: