Obama team highlights N.H. field operations

[babylonsister]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/obama_campaign_highlights_new.html

Obama team highlights N.H. field operations
Posted at 4:21 PM

by Mike Dorning

Most of the political press is focused on Iowa, where candidates are crisscrossing the state in a final frenzy of campaigning before the caucuses three days away But Barack Obama’s campaign this afternoon highlighted its organizational strength in the next field of battle, New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

Obama’s campaign claimed in a press release e-mailed to reporters that it has organized an “unprecedented Get Out the Vote effort” that it says “is unlike anything the Granite State has ever seen.

Though it’s always wise to treat last-minute claims from campaigns cautiously—political operatives have been known to exaggerate at times to foster impressions of momentum—the Obama campaign has consistently demonstrated organizational strength in early primary states.

The Obama campaign claimed that in New Hampshire volunteers and staff have made nearly 1.5 million phone calls this year and knocked on more than 340,000 doors on behalf of the candidates.

The campaign claimed it has identified more than 15,000 new supporters during December alone and that more than 850 volunteers canvassed the state this past weekend.

It claimed more than 700 town and ward captains in the state to lead primary-day voter mobilization. The campaign says “thousands” of volunteers have signed up to work for the campaign on primary day and the days leading up to it.

And, highlighting efforts to mobilize younger voters, the Obama campaign said that at Dartmouth College—the only school in session on primary day—more than 150 volunteers will participate in an on-campus voter turnout effort.

More than 1,000 New Hampshire college students have already voted for Barack Obama in the primary, presumably by absentee ballot, the campaign said.

[DemKR]

1. taking the focus off iowa I see..He's done!!!!

[AtomicKitten]

2. His grass roots campaign is formidable.