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It's amazing to me that Bill & Hillary act as if they've never heard of the "results" of Barack Obama. Barack was already working the 50-State Strategy way back when..
In the final, climactic buildup to November's general election, with George Bush gaining ground on Bill Clinton in Illinois ... one of the most important local stories managed to go virtually unreported: The number of new voter registrations before the election hit an all-time high. And the majority of those new voters were black. More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city's rolls... The election, to some degree, turned on these totals...For the first time in ten years, more than half a million blacks went to the polls in Chicago ... None of this, of course, was accidental. The most effective minority voter registration drive in memory was the result of careful handiwork by Project Vote! ... At the head of this effort was a little-known 31-year-old African-American lawyer, community organizer, and writer: Barack Obama.
In the final, climactic buildup to November's general election, with George Bush gaining ground on Bill Clinton in Illinois ... one of the most important local stories managed to go virtually unreported: The number of new voter registrations before the election hit an all-time high. And the majority of those new voters were black. More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city's rolls...
The election, to some degree, turned on these totals...For the first time in ten years, more than half a million blacks went to the polls in Chicago ...
None of this, of course, was accidental. The most effective minority voter registration drive in memory was the result of careful handiwork by Project Vote! ...
At the head of this effort was a little-known 31-year-old African-American lawyer, community organizer, and writer: Barack Obama.
Chicago Magazine 1993
by Empower Ink on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:04:39 PM PDT
by Mother of Zeus on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:08:13 PM PDT
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Fantastic and so illuminating.
Thank you!
Do not be overwhelmed by the enormity of the world's grief...You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
by Albatross on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:12:29 PM PDT
I kind of wish Obama could work that in an interview or a speech somehow. :)
AAPI Wellesley grad in Austin for Obama! Travis County delegate, Pct. 277 - 3/29
by lirtydies on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:46:01 PM PDT
'05 (-5.13, -3.44) '06 (-4.75, -3.44) Obama '08
by lordkelvin on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:16:26 PM PDT
The Poorest of All Men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream.
by EMKennedyLucio on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:25:04 PM PDT
thats an amazing story.....
by maxnyc on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:26:39 PM PDT
we could get it into mainstream media. See if anyone would give it some play.
by africa on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 09:38:32 PM PDT
Obama really doesn't like to boast at all. He should be using some of this stuff you guys are dragging up!
by little liberal on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:34:41 PM PDT
Rabindranath Tagore-"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
by joy sinha on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:49:26 PM PDT
You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the stars... Desiderata
by byteb on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 07:55:47 PM PDT
You should definitely diary this.
I guess everyone's got their own blog now.
by zonk on Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 05:49:24 AM PDT
wide narrow
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