Inside the Ohio Ground Game
February 14th, 2008
Huffington Post has a look inside the teams assembled for Ohio:
Rival candidate Senator Hillary Clinton is also deploying her most battle-ready field marshals to Ohio. While both campaigns have had skeleton teams in Ohio since January, now the big guns have unpacked their bags and set up their state headquarters in Columbus. They’ve also brought their entourage of top managers, field directors, GOTV staffers and consultants with media buys planned, along with scheduled campaign events and candidate appearances.
Behind the scenes of the Obama-Clinton race to capture Ohio’s 161 delegates, the biggest jackpot of states still in contention, it will be a killer match between each campaign’s point man: Paul Tewes and Robby Mook.
Among campaign professionals,Tewes is widely regarded among the very most talented of political organizers in the nation – he’s largely responsible for Obama’s surprise win in Iowa, which proved that the “inevitable” nomination of Hillary Clinton wasn’t so inevitable and that white voters, independents, and women could be lured to Obama.
Mook also comes with an impressive campaign record. He was Howard Dean’s field director in the New Hampshire Primary and a former deputy field director for the Democratic National Committee. As the state director for Nevada, he led Hillary Clinton’s impressive win there last month, successfully wooing Latinos and women back to the Clinton fold.
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February 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
161 delegates, the biggest jackpot of states still in contention
What about Texas?
February 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am
OK here is the thing. Texas has 228 delegates. 126 of which are allocated based on the primary on March 4th.
Of those 126 only about 67 delegates are chosen based on the primary. The rest will be allocated to 31 state senate districts by caucuses in more than 18,000 precincts.
So in pure numbers Ohio is the bigger prize.