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Obama Shifts to 49-State Strategy - or Less
September 12 - 5:40 PM
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has dissed his own 50-state strategy by abandoning Texas organizers.
Originally conceived by Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, himself a former presidential candidate, the purpose of the 50-state strategy was to take no state for granted, and in the process help Democratic organizations in so-called red states to rebuild their campaign apparatuses.
No more. Texas Democrats saw the writing on the wall when the Obama campaign started using Texas as a training ground for organizers who would then be shipped to "battleground" swing states.
Now the Obama campaign is sending out e-mails asking Texans to make a "short trip" to New Mexico to help organize there. Only one little problem: a drive across Texas is equal to a drive halfway across the Moon - although Texas has better highways, of course.
Mapquest puts the Houston-to-New Mexico drive as 860 miles. For Dallasites it's a bit easier - 607 miles. Austinites will have to drive more than an hour longer - 690 miles. San Antonio is little better at 664 miles. Of course, in El Paso it's just over the border - but few people think the request is aimed at West Texans.
Some wags have suggest that Obama is abandoning the largest as well as the second largest state - Alaska being Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's home state.
48 states and counting.
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