The Must-Reid – Wednesday, September 17
Today we’ll be unveiling the latest list of key New Hampshire activists supporting Barack. Watch for a release shortly.
Barack’s grassroots fundraising approach is striking a chord with contributors eager to match the donations that other candidates are receiving from federal lobbyists and PACs. Marc Ambinder reports:
Obama Raises $431,000 In Hours
He asked his supporters to close the gap between himself and Sen. Clinton, and his 365,000-strong movement has responded.
You can read Barack’s appeal here or watch the video of it here.
And Campaigns & Elections notes that Barack’s movement has received by far the most support from contributors here in New Hampshire:
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., may be in second place in most New Hampshire polls, but he was far and away the fundraising winner in New Hampshire. His campaign brought in $125,538, which is more than any other candidate on either side of the aisle. It is also four times more than the $28,170 U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., raised within the state.
Our National Women for Obama Chair Betsy Myers issued a memo this morning about the role that women are playing in the campaign:
Like all Americans, women desperately want change they can believe in. They want an end to the divisive politics in Washington. They want someone who had the judgment to say no to an unnecessary war and who can stand up to the special interests that have shut out the voices of average Americans for too long. These are all the reasons why women have been at the forefront of the grassroots movement that is the Obama campaign.
We continue profiling members of our Child Advocacy Task Force today with Dr. Bruce Mallory of Portsmouth. Dr. Mallory was recently featured on NH.BarackObama.com:
Bruce is a member of our New Hampshire Child Advocacy Task Force, and he is convinced that Barack will work harder for economic justice than any other candidate because of his experiences as a community organizer.
“As someone who has worked as a community organizer myself,” Bruce said, “I know how much that experience informs your values for the rest of your life.”
From his first job as a teacher at a public school in the inner city of Cleveland to the decades of community organizing and advocacy in New Hampshire that followed, Bruce was constantly exposed to the obstacles faced by so much of the population…
Bruce believes that a nationwide commitment to early education and intervention is an essential step towards bridging the growing gulf between rich and poor in this country. He believes that Barack has the life experience to lead this effort from the White House.
“Obama understands with his heart and in his head the sheer injustice of having children doomed to fail at birth in this country,” Bruce said. “As president, the people living in the slums blocks away from the heart of government would never be far from his mind.”
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