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If you are worried about Obama's organization for re-election and its viability, you might read this.

Barack Obama’s online army quietly gears up

As a participant in this effort, here is what I can report from my perspective.

I like the notion, which I have heard, that somehow the organization lost its steam. That it had become weak. Au contraire. It has merely kept itself under the radar. They don't want brickbats thrown at him for their work.

Look at me. A partisan but not a really active active one. I have never been out of touch with Organizing For America, the election apparatus.

I have given money and been asked to participate in many surveys as well as to sign up as a volunteer which I have already done although I am waiting for assignment which will not actually happen until next year. I am in the turnout group.

I have already participated in the "I'm In" program which began about a month ago. This outreach was used to re-commit people like me who had been connected all the time to say out loud and with money and some other stuff that we are here, we are ready and we are committed. It is also the way that OFA has transferred us folks to the Obama For America organization now setting up in Chicago. Stealth is over.

I have gotten TWO bumper stickers. One is on the car and one went to a friend.

This seems like small potatoes perhaps but I need to mention that this is spring of 2011! Again, 2011!

This is where many campaigns would like to have "their people" in the last months of the general. We are about 18 months early, not six.

This article answers some questions. How do they deal with the balance between fundraising and volunteer signups? What about the disappointed? The ones who dropped out when their cause didn't receive high priority attention? Well, actually, who are they going to work for? No one? Huckabee? Romney? Any of the field of idiots? Maybe Mitch Daniels, the serious candidate, Governor of Indiana, who today signed a bill blocking all Planned Parenthood money in his State. This is the guy who called for an end to the "culture wars". No. None of the disappointed are going to work for these guys.

Will they re-engage. Some will not. I read a blog of a guy who is basically a single issue (gay) guy and he will not opt "in". He is gone. But he is also really a republican at heart. Just a gay one.

On the other hand, a friend, who says he is a "liberal" as though that is an anti-Obama statement, admits he will probably support him. But I don't think he worked for him last time.

And so on.

Here we are. Beginning of May. Ready to kick some Republican ass. Any Republican ass. Let them have their primaries. Get out the popcorn. And if there is a Democratic primary? So much the better. Honing the tools.

Labels: Re-election of Barack Obama