Primirony
April 11th, 2011at 08:00am Posted by Eli
From an Americablog post from an anonymous Democratic insider about the need to primary the Obatross:
We saw in 2008 that organizing a primary campaign apart from the built-in support of the established party can create a national movement for change. A successful campaign has to recruit and organize supporters around the country, it must create its own message machine and rapid response team, and it must create donors and fundraise successfully in order to support all of these efforts. Modern technologies make this even easier than it was in the days of Reagan’s 1976 campaign. But, to really succeed, the movement cannot be discarded at the moment of the Inauguration (just ask the poor folks trapped in the tunnel with the Purple tickets).
Hey, you know what would provide a really great ready-made base of supporters for an upstart progressive primary challenger? The Obama For America mailing list.
