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June 5, 2008

How Obama Did It

The Washington Post has an article about how Obama and his team pulled off their incredible upset:

Almost from the beginning, Hillary Rodham Clinton's superior name recognition and her sway with state party organizations convinced Barack Obama's brain trust that a junior senator from Illinois was not going to be able to challenge the Clinton political machine head-on.

The insurgent strategy the group devised instead was to virtually cede the most important battlegrounds of the Democratic nomination fight to Clinton, using precision targeting to minimize her delegate hauls, while going all out to crush her in states where Democratic candidates rarely ventured.

I've been discussing with friends how different the electoral map is going to look in 2008 (Huffington Post has a good preview), but the WaPo piece is a must-read, if only because it shows how incredibly smart the Obama operation has been.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 5, 2008 10:36 AM. Posted to Politics.

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