Obama's primary strategy
Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/5/2008 10:28 AM 
Categories: 2008 Election, Political strategies, All Posts
Categories: 2008 Election, Political strategies, All Posts
The Boston Globe does a nice run down of how Obama got his lead in the Democratic primary race. The article breaks out the main difference between Clinton and Obama when it came to the primary; she focused on the big states and big media centers while Obama fought for every delegate out there by focusing on the smaller states. But what the article points out that I believe is the case is that since Obama just tied Clinton on Super Tuesday, he won the race that very night. Just keeping pace allowed him to run the table for the rest of February with an operation that his campaign had been building for the past six months in the smaller states while Clinton, believing that she would come out victorious after Super Tuesday and force the other candidates out, didn't have the time or resources to catch up and play the ground game against Obama's army. From a political strategy perspective, Obama's game plan was really the only one he could have pulled off to put him in the lead given the national media's fascination with Sen. Clinton and her "insurmountable" lead in the polls leading up to January 2008. I doubt another brand name candidate running in the presidential primary for decades to come will make the same mistake.
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