BarackObamadotcom, video (03:55):
Barack Obama joined volunteers at the Obama headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri to call some folks to make sure they get out and vote. October 17, 2008.Howie P.S.: If you want a long read about Obama from Sunday's New York Times Magazine by Matt Bai, here's "Working for the Working-Class Vote." The last paragraph:
Normally, in political campaigns, you hope people get to know you and then decide to vote for you; Obama now believed that perhaps only the inverse was possible. Once, he might have thought that if he could only win a bunch of red states and pile up 350 electoral votes, he could obliterate the red-blue paralysis of the last decade and wield his mandate like a machete against the culture warriors in Washington. Now, it seemed, he understood that even a Reaganesque triumph wouldn’t suddenly erase the effect of 40 years of exploiting peoples’ darkest fears or ignoring their legitimate anxieties, the twisted and bipartisan legacy of a lost political generation. If he won, Obama would likely start out as a 50-plus-1 president, no matter what the map had in store. And then the campaign would begin again.
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