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Is Obama Building The Democratic Party?

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

In the spirit of speaking up when I think the blog CW is wrong, I want to address this argument from Markos. He cites Texas blogger Anna, who writes:

[A]nd let me just add to what karl sent you last night about the obama campaign doing more to rebuild the party in two weeks than the party's done in years.... he's 1000% right.

[W]e have - in [T]arrant county alone - 3400 volunteers and over 600 precinct captains. that means that we could fill almost every single precinct captain spot in [T]arrant county. [O]ne of our goals has been to ask these volunteers to continue to serve their local parties, and we are urging our precinct captains to become precinct chairs where ever there is an empty spot. [I]f our people will fill the empty spots, we could have a precinct chair in every precinct in [T]arrant county for the first time in over 15 years.

(Emphasis supplied.) Here's my question -- does Obama volunteer translate into Democratic volunteer? That is the assumption of both Markos and Anna. I have serious doubts that a post-partisan Unity campaign will produce the type of partisans who will become regular Democratic Party activists. "If" is the operative word in Anna's post. My reading of that "if" is "not likely."

NOTE - this thread is now closed.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).