The Pennsylvania primary is exactly six weeks away, but already campaign staffers are on the ground, joining the thousands of local grassroots supporters who have been working on their own for almost a year now. In the past week, over a half-dozen Obama For America offices have opened across Pennsylvania.
This past Saturday, The Morning Call reported on office openings in Doylestown and Bethlehem:
The people crowding Barack Obama's new Bethlehem campaign office Friday reflected the message his campaign is trying to get out: The Illinois senator's supporters are more than the young, black or college-educated professionals noted in the polls.Among the crowd of 70 were a stay-at-home mom, a marathon champion, a Vietnam veteran, a pastor, teachers, small business owners, Hispanics, middle-age women and, yes, quite a few college students. The supporters hammered home the themes they see Obama representing: unity and change.… The office on historic Main Street will be the Lehigh Valley headquarters for voter registration drives and information about the candidate. The office is 4,000 square feet and is adorned with Obama signs from contests in other states.…While the phone and Internet services have yet to be connected, the Doylestown volunteers have been focusing on getting voters registered for the primary and have shown up at community events such as the borough's First Friday celebration.Obama volunteers in the 15th District plan to do much of the same. In the Lehigh Valley, his campaign has already recruited 400 volunteers ... Other offices are planned in the Valley as well.Bar Johnston, who wants to be an Obama delegate, said the immediate goal is voter registration drives because of the state's looming deadline to register to vote, March 24. Volunteers will canvass their own neighborhoods.
If you live in Pennsylvania, you can find the office nearest you or sign-up to help volunteer in your own neighborhood.
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